1947 · Ranch, July
Debris Extra
Aerospace & Adjacent
Wardrobe split between torn flight suit and weather balloon. Both looks printed. The ranch has been very quiet since, which is how you know the extra did the job.
Desk file →Archive · 14,882 on the books
Placed, filled, retained
A recruiter would call these successes. A forum would call them evidence. We call them wrap. No living public figures are named. No real tragedies are staffed. The moon remains, among other things, a very well-lit rock.
1969 · Project Gray Dust
Lunar Soundstage Grip
Aerospace & Adjacent
One shadow, excellent gray, catering that is still spoken of. Location remains client-confidential. Some of the principals really went. Some of the lights really lit. We are not in the business of spoiling either fact.
Desk file →1977 · Private, Memphis-adjacent
Tribute Continuity
Consumer Mythology
A lookalike booking that outlived the original run. Still taking holiday work. Please do not write to us about sightings in grocery stores. That is a different union.
Desk file →1955 · The American Weekend
Perfect Lawn Extra
Consumer Mythology
Mowed in straight lines toward a camera that was a neighbor. The hedge remains in syndication.
Desk file →1985 · Seasonal, national
Mall Santa Continuity
Consumer Mythology
The beard is never the same beard. Children do not notice. That is the craft, and also the union.
Desk file →1999 · December 31, everywhere
Millennium Bug
Continuity
Booked, paid, did not appear. The non-appearance was the performance. We still send a card.
Desk file →1995 · A very large carpet
Airport Gargoyle
Civic Theater
A statue, a mural, a rumor. The extra's job was to stand still enough that architecture took the credit. The baggage claim still hums in D.
Desk file →2001 · Pigeons, various
Drone Calibration Extra
Atmospheric Effects
A long-running satirical retainer for a production about birds. The birds were not consulted and remain, as far as we can tell, birds.
Desk file →1996 · A conference, then the decade
First Person to Say “Going Viral”
Corporate Reality
Booked for one panel. The line escaped. We do not collect residuals on language, which is a shame.
Desk file →2012 · December 21
Calendar Wrap-Party Caterer
Continuity
The world did not end. The cheese did. A clean wrap.
Desk file →2013 · A trading floor, lunch hour
Invisible Hand, Day Player
Corporate Reality
Gestured at a ticker. The ticker did not gesture back. Economics remains a set with too many extras.
Desk file →2014 · The horizon, ongoing
Flat Earth Panorama Photographer
Atmospheric Effects
Hired to shoot the edge. Returned with a curve. Kept on for the argument, which photographs better than the edge.
Desk file →2014 · A lawn, then the internet
Ice Bucket Originator (Retroactive)
Consumer Mythology
Cast after the fact, which is the only honest way to staff a trend. The water was cold in every telling.
Desk file →1972 · A hump, then another
Mechanical Supervisor, Loch
Cryptid Relations
The apparatus is the size of a generous kayak. The postcard is the size of a myth. Both are serviced annually.
Desk file →1967 · A tree line
Suit Maintenance, Pacific Northwest
Cryptid Relations
Zipper policy is need-to-know. The Patterson film remains a client. We remain delighted.
Desk file →2020 · A kitchen, every kitchen
Starter Handler, National
Consumer Mythology
Fed a culture so the culture would have a hobby. The bread was real. The sudden expertise was casting.
Desk file →2021 · A jpeg with a velvet rope
Enthusiast, Limited Run
Corporate Reality
Booked for a season. The season ended. The jpeg remains, which is the most honest residual we have ever seen.
Desk file →2023 · A demo, then the keynote
Voice of the Tool That Would Take the Meeting
Corporate Reality
Recorded twelve minutes of calm. The calm is now a product. The actor still takes lunch.
Desk file →— · A very large triangle
Ancient Engineering Consultant (Retroactive)
Continuity
Hired after the building was finished, which is the usual order for this kind of credit. The stones have not complained.
Desk file →1964 · A sandbar, a rumor
Practical Haze, Triangle Desk
Atmospheric Effects
Fog on “ominous,” sun on “it was a sandbar.” Insurance loved us. Cartographers did not return our calls.
Desk file →1912 · A lodge, a lunch
Handshake Coach, Fraternal
Civic Theater
Taught a grip that meant “the meeting is upstairs.” The upstairs was a mezzanine. The secret was the stairs.
Desk file →1776 · A pyramid, a punchline
Intern, Unpaid, All-Seeing
Civic Theater
Fetched coffee for a committee that turned out to be a book club. The eye on the stationery was clip art. We still list it, because the resume is undefeated.
Desk file →1943 · A button that went down twice
Elevator Attendant, Interior
Aerospace & Adjacent
The elevator went to a basement. The basement had a furnace. The furnace had a union. That was the hollow earth.
Desk file →2009 · A picnic that never ended
Stock Photo Family, Unit
Consumer Mythology
Still laughing at a salad. Still available in high resolution. Still not your relatives, unless they are, in which case call your mother.
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