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     COMMENTS: It’s the Pictures that got Small

Twentieth Century Props, Hollywood's 40-year-old set decoration supplier, is closing its doors and putting its props up for sale at auction. The movie production business in the Thirty Mile Zone is not what it used to be, NBC's Lee Cowan explained. Drama on television is being replaced by reality. The strike by screenwriters slowed production. So-called runaway productions are being shot outside of California, lured away from Tinseltown by tax incentives. At least Cowan enjoyed a quirky, poignant guided tour through the warehouse's "menagerie of the miscellaneous."

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