This Old-School, Special Edition Jim Beam Whiskey Bottle Became An Iconic Hollywood Prop - Chowhound

Monticelllo/Getty Images Before technology like computer-generated imagery (CGI)and other modern tools, art directors and special effects technicians relied on ingenuity — from massive painted backdrops and split screens to animation and extravagant sets — to make the impossible seem real. On television, where budgets were smaller than film, they often repurposed found objects. This was the case with a special…