How cinema learns to reuse: from the sets of “Marie-Antoinette” to the costumes of “Dog 51”

A large column reported from the filming of the last “Asterix and Obelix”. A projector from the film “Eiffel” recovered, repainted and reused by the production of the “Lupin” series. The golden woodwork of the queen’s apartment comes directly from the series “Marie-Antoinette”, which sits alongside the furniture from “Emily in Paris”… In Montreuil, every corner of the Ressourcerie du Cinéma hides a treasure. Here, police equipment, handcuffs and a fingerprint kit. There, blankets used in the France 2 series “Les Nourrices”. Further still, trunks, large polystyrene rocks, a collection of telephones from all eras, dozens of doorbell buttons or a lion’s foot bathtub.

These approximately 3,000 unusual objects narrowly escaped the garbage dumpster to end up in the aisles of the 1,300 m² hangar of the Ressourcerie du cinéma. Because behind the camera and the glitter, the seventh art hides a relatively polluting back room. According to Ecoprod, a reassuring association…