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TMH-Sir-Iron-Vomit
Since: Mar, 2024
Mac_R
(Experienced, Not Yet Jaded)

A Period Piece will feature props and sets appropriate to the time period, except the props already look old - the prop designer forgot that something that looks old now was once brand new.
Usually that means movies taking place in Ancient Greece assuming those temples were already ruins back in III B.C., broken statues, unpainted columns and walls, dirt everywhere, not a pillow or sheet in sight. More recent fare will feature newly-released silent movies looking damaged, phonograph cylinders sounding scratched, and newly-developed pictures looking yellowed and brittle.