Call for Prop Donations

The Northern Borders Art Department Needs You!
Through the magic of cinema, we are recreating the world of 1956 Vermont. A world of kerosene lamps and color television sets, one-room schoolhouses and brand new Hoovers.

If you have any items or wish to volunteer please email Kaity Reilly at karei@bu.edu.

To make this realistic, we need a lot of STUFF! Specific items we are searching for include but not limited to:
  • KEROSENE LAMPS!! (sconces,  tabletop, standing in metal & glass etc.)
  • Mid 50’s Hoover Vacuum (and the box ideally)
  • Saddle, saddlebags, and tack
  • Suitcases
  • Money from the 1940’s-50’s : $1’s $5’s, $10’s, $20’s
  • 1950’s Boys’ bookbag/satchel
  • Glass Whiskey Flask 
  • Man’s Pocket-watch 
  • Maple Syrup Sap Buckets, Spouts, Drill, Hydrometer
  • 1940’s-1950’s Boys’ Bicycle
  • Wooden Sled
  • Keyhole Saw
  • Opera Glasses
  • Fishing Gear
  • Briefcase 
  • Iron Keys
  • 1930-present day National Geographic Magazines (old and torn are fine!)
  • Any older books about Egypt
  • Glass Balls/Xmas Decorations old fashioned
  • Green Topographical Maps (old and torn are fine!)
  • Slender Gold Ring w/ Small (faux) Diamond
  • 1940’s-50’s Survey Pins
  • Judge’s Gavel
  • Blue Ribbons (County Fairs)
  • A Rocking Chair –that we can custom paint
  • Candle holders for tapers (simple style, single and candelabra)
We are looking for donations of all manner of household goods, farm items and clothing from the 1950's and before. 

WE ARE ALSO LOOKING FOR OLD CLUTTER. IN FACT, WE WILL COME CLEAR OUT YOUR ATTIC, BASEMENT OR GARAGE OF UNUSED OR IN-THE-WAY ITEMS!
  • Clean newspapers
  • Cardboard
  • Burlap sacks
  • Jars
  • Tangled wire and string
  • Candles (lots and lots of tapers, white and ivory, partially burned down ok!)
  • Chicken wire
  • Fabric, unused blankets, linens, bedsheets and quilts, rags
  • Old carpets, all sizes
  • Books, old magazines
  • Machinery parts
  • Jars of nails, old coffee cans
  • Rope, twine, lumber, wire, paint
  • Old tools, shovels, gardening implements
We would also love lenders! Some harder-to-find or valuable items would be carefully borrowed, inventoried, immortalized on film and then returned to you!

Also, PLEASE COME VOLUNTEER WITH THE ART DEPARTMENT! 
Come paint, hang artwork, build sets, schlep stuff around, and hang out with some of the coolest folk around––the Northern Borders Art Department.