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Small-Scale Question Sunday for March 19, 2023

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I have a friend who works full-time doing prop management for a TV series in New York. It seems they have a union and everything. Basically, there are multiple significant sub-industries around things like props, set selection and prep, casting and management of minor actors and extras, wardrobe and makeup, etc that are required to put on a good production. They mostly don't exist right now outside of current media centers, and it's an expensive pain to work without them, transport expertise in, or train up new crew, so not a lot of production happens outside of the established areas.

Though on the flip side to that, I believe the Breaking Bad franchise made some waves by doing most of their production work in Albuquerque.