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.