RafalFett
Sr Member
I fell in love with the movie and its props after I watched it earlier this year and posted my version of the Beach Picture in this thread ==> Barton Fink Beach Picture.
I did a new thread because there are lots of goodies to post and to have all of them under the same name.
My first take was the Hotel Earle logo and the stationery seen while Barton was checking out his room on arrival:
The hotel drawing is an actual logo of the George Washington Hotel located in Washington, PA (link to the official site => History — George Washington Hotel):
As you can see, the flag and a portion of the streets was removed and the Est. 1909 was added.
For the writing I settled for a total redrawn (except the motto), because I found only fonts that were close, but not enough. I did a LTR and A4 format for the papers, while the envelope is an universal version, which will accept both paper sizes:
The pages should be printed with the full size and not the fit to page option; the envelope should print at 261 x 233 mm.
And my props:
Just for fun, I also did an aged version with the pencil shape mark:
The next paper prop is from a deleted scene, where Chet, the hotel clerk, tosses a notice under Barton's hotel room door while he was away:
The font is not 100% accurate, but will do for now. These should print at 210 x 155 mm.
And my props:
The next prop was a big headache: the Nebuchadnezzar book by W. P. Mayhew.
The title and name was hand drawn in lack of matching fonts, while for the publishing house name and the text on the back I used the font called Cheltenham. I tried to find the drawing on Google, but with no luck (this might be a job done for the movie?), so I ended up enhancing, then vectorizing the image. The publishing house is a made up name by the Coen Brothers and according to Wikipedia:
The name also appeared in another movie wrote by them called Suburbicon:
The back of the cover was made up using an article from a newspaper thrown at Barton by one of the cops (the photo and the text on the left side):
And finally, here's the book's dusk jacket cover, the first page signed and clean and the last page:
The overall size of the book is 260 x 184 mm with a 75 mm thickness. The dusk jacket cover should print at 647 x 260 mm, while the pages at 250 x 177 mm. Photos of the finished book in post #3 (quick jump here ==> Barton Fink).
The next prop is made of 2 parts:
The wrapping looks to be a hotel stationary, while the Thumb Tacks box seems to be a vintage brand. I only found one such box on eBay while searching for images and is a 95% match:
Except the top and bottom texts, everything else was drawn from scratch:
The box cover should print at 165 x 130 mm, the center label at 62 x 37 mm, while the wrapping paper at 140 x 180 mm. The box should be printed on thick paper (250-300gr or thick 4), otherwise the top and bottom won't fit. The hotel logo on the wrapping should be on the top label when you do your prop.
And here are my props for the wrapped and the unwrapped boxes:
You might ask:
Just some tacks I had at home:
Continued on the next post...
I did a new thread because there are lots of goodies to post and to have all of them under the same name.
My first take was the Hotel Earle logo and the stationery seen while Barton was checking out his room on arrival:
The hotel drawing is an actual logo of the George Washington Hotel located in Washington, PA (link to the official site => History — George Washington Hotel):
As you can see, the flag and a portion of the streets was removed and the Est. 1909 was added.
For the writing I settled for a total redrawn (except the motto), because I found only fonts that were close, but not enough. I did a LTR and A4 format for the papers, while the envelope is an universal version, which will accept both paper sizes:
The pages should be printed with the full size and not the fit to page option; the envelope should print at 261 x 233 mm.
And my props:
Just for fun, I also did an aged version with the pencil shape mark:
The next paper prop is from a deleted scene, where Chet, the hotel clerk, tosses a notice under Barton's hotel room door while he was away:
The font is not 100% accurate, but will do for now. These should print at 210 x 155 mm.
And my props:
The next prop was a big headache: the Nebuchadnezzar book by W. P. Mayhew.
The title and name was hand drawn in lack of matching fonts, while for the publishing house name and the text on the back I used the font called Cheltenham. I tried to find the drawing on Google, but with no luck (this might be a job done for the movie?), so I ended up enhancing, then vectorizing the image. The publishing house is a made up name by the Coen Brothers and according to Wikipedia:
The name also appeared in another movie wrote by them called Suburbicon:
The back of the cover was made up using an article from a newspaper thrown at Barton by one of the cops (the photo and the text on the left side):
And finally, here's the book's dusk jacket cover, the first page signed and clean and the last page:
The overall size of the book is 260 x 184 mm with a 75 mm thickness. The dusk jacket cover should print at 647 x 260 mm, while the pages at 250 x 177 mm. Photos of the finished book in post #3 (quick jump here ==> Barton Fink).
The next prop is made of 2 parts:
The wrapping looks to be a hotel stationary, while the Thumb Tacks box seems to be a vintage brand. I only found one such box on eBay while searching for images and is a 95% match:
Except the top and bottom texts, everything else was drawn from scratch:
The box cover should print at 165 x 130 mm, the center label at 62 x 37 mm, while the wrapping paper at 140 x 180 mm. The box should be printed on thick paper (250-300gr or thick 4), otherwise the top and bottom won't fit. The hotel logo on the wrapping should be on the top label when you do your prop.
And here are my props for the wrapped and the unwrapped boxes:
You might ask:
Just some tacks I had at home:
Continued on the next post...
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