Safes & Vaults versus Hollywood

[wylk]

IBM has an advertisement that includes a vault door. It's not a bad representation of a real door, and the resemblance to a question mark is probably intentional.

[wylk]

Sometimes Hollywood gets it right, by using a real door. This is from the TV series Bones, season 3, episode 6, "Intern in the Incinerator". Though some cosmetic changes are made, this looks like a real Mosler door with a disappointing 3-movement time lock. The glass is missing and they covered the lettering announcing Mosler as the maker. And they added a motto relevant to the plot.



I'm guessing they found an abandoned bank in Los Angeles for filming.

[wylk]

This one appeared in an episode of the TV series Rizzoli & Isles (season 6, episode 8, "Nice to Meet You, Dr. Isles"). The door is a fairly good prop, the builder must have worked from a photo of a real one. It does the necessary job (convince the viewers they are seeing a jewelry store).

[wylk]

This door was in an episode of TV's CSI: Cyber (season 1 episode 12). It clearly (to me) is a prop door but as before, it gets the point across to the audience, again in a jewelry store. In the center of the image an actor is trying to outperform the vault door but I easily ignored her.

[wylk]

Another Hollywood door showed up, new at least to me. This is from the TV series "Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D." season one episode 3 "The Asset" which originally aired on October 8, 2013. Yeah, that was a while ago. Here are a couple of pictures -



This door has been seen several times. It's been in the 2007 movie How To Rob A Bank (see the post in this thread from March 28 2018), an IBM ad (post from June 17 2016) and the movie Ocean's Eleven (post from February 2013). Nice to see an "old friend" show up again, it's a decent prop.