- [Len] We rent anything from shopping carts to five ton military vehicles - [Chris] Public safety gear, uniforms.

- We can build any electronics, if you need a raft built to the 1820s spec the way that they were lashed together, we have the ability to do that.

(gentle muzac) - Just about anything you can think of.

- [Len] We're a company that provides props, set pieces, custom builds and location shoots for films, commercials, professional theater, local groups and high schools.

There were prop houses for years in Birmingham and I think they closed down.

There are some people in Alabama that have small collections but I understand we're the only prop house in Alabama.

My parents bought the property in 1972 and renovated the log house that's located here.

I left Auburn in 1976 and I started a cattle farm and bought the property from them in 1982.

So I've been here a long time.

(gentle muzac) Alabama military vehicle collectors would have a show out at Tana Hill State Park.

That's where I met Chris.

A lot of his collection kind of filled in gaps from my collection and my collection kind of filled in gaps for his, and then I'm like, "Why don't you come on board and we'll be co-owners?"

He's our company mechanic and he builds our electronics and I do more of the acquisition, set building.

You know, if we need something built outta wood we need something built.

That's what I do.

We're both collectors, we're both scroungers and you know, we, we buy things that most people won't fool with and then we rebuild 'em and put 'em on set and they're, they work.

(gentle muzac) - [Chris] There's no class you can go to to learn how to be an army truck mechanic.

It's just not gonna happen.

Antique electronics, learning tube theory and how to you know, vacuum tubes work, military radios in particular are something that I've always enjoyed.

I was in the, in the army for 12 years and I had a lot of different jobs at one of 'em.

I was communications NCO, so I had a lot of hands on with those and really kind of enjoy, you know, working with those.

And the, you know, the US armies had radios in the military since, you know, 1914 and I have some radios that are from the early twenties.

But seeking out that talent, finding the resources like dude, I do not understand this radio.

And then some guy walks up, he's 94 years old and says, "Okay, I know what your problem is but I'm not gonna tell you.

It's here," and circles half the radio.

You know, it's just like, okay man.

But you know, you just dig in.

I mean, and that, that's the only way to do it.

I've always been able to just figure things out and I will keep working on it until it's right.

(gentle muzac) - [Len] Our name's familiar with a lot of people, we do a lot of estate sales.

They'll call and say, well, we've got such and such.

Would you like to look at it?

We always go look at it.

We learned that, you know, you go and if you can help 'em out, you take everything.

People like that, and another thing, we're not a reseller.

In one of the rooms we have that blue camp ware.

A friend's mother collected that and their mother passed away and the father was moving, he was moving to the VA home.

We bought it and brought it here and we put it, probably a week later we put it on set, and just, you know they were just thrilled that their mother's collection will be seen in a film at some point in the near future.

(gentle Muzak) All of our buildings and everything are just bursting at the seams.

The past couple of years we've gotten a lot more organized.

We have the camera room and then we have room with luggage and then we have room with other electronics.

- [Chris] Space is always an issue.

You know, we can put up a, you know 20,000 square foot building or something and just stack everything on the shelves but it also takes a lot of character away from the stuff.

And so, you know, we have ambulances and we kit those out with everything that a normal ambulance in the state would have.

And we provide guidance on all that.

And so a lot of our spaces, we gotta store stuff in 'em, but if we store stuff in 'em in a way where they're dressed out, like a set, then a production company doesn't have to try to visualize what they're gonna need for a particular scene.

They can come in and say, I wanna rent this whole space.

(gentle muzac) If you're renting stuff from us we're gonna show you how to use it and we're gonna show you how to use it right.

And you can choose to do it that way or you can take creative license and do it your own way but you're gonna know how to use it and to make it look right.

Those are skill sets that normally in Hollywood and movies, those are paid consultant jobs.

We're having more and more productions come from outta state to film here because people see that there is that community and they get bigger bang for their buck.

The ideal production would be a production company that really wants to embrace, like really digging in and putting stuff together that's plausibly accurate and at the same time, you know, creative.

And we like the collaborative process as we continue to work in this industry and it continues to grow in the state it gets better and better.

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