Assistant Key Prop Master News Today

Was it a live round? the sheriffs department says that they are looking to the medical examiners office to help answer that question. laura? >> josh, thank you. a long-time hollywood prop master says he turned down an offer to work on that movie "rust" because producers asked him to fill two jobs. one as an armourer, and another as an assistant key prop master. neil saromsky said he felt that approach was flawed. >> its just an awful lot of landscape for even a seasoned professional to cover. ...

Slope. >> i think i said it was e-mail. it was not in the e-mail but the -- overall, what -- what finally made you decide not to -- to move forward on this? >> well, i would say probably the fifth and final thing they did was the slip-it-in e-mail. where they suggested -- and they actually referred to the consortium of producers as a group, we feel it would be best that you could -- you could compress those two positions. and its just an awful lot of landscape for even a seasoned professional to...

Compress those two positions. and its just an awful lot of landscape for even a seasoned professional to cover. if you are loading a gun, youre right up next to the camera. if youre an assistant key prop master, then you are in the background loading the wagons, checking the bridles, making sure the trunk is being loaded and offloaded and repeated over and over again. there are so many things that go on in between the foreground and the background and to have to cover that amount of territory an...