Hello and welcome to Business Daily from the BBC World Service. I'm Laura Heitengen.

It may sound as though I'm in a war zone or part of a military drill, and that's because it's meant to.

These are film props, objects that look and sound entirely authentic to help bring stories to life on screen.

Props are any movable item that can be seen. It could be a hat, a great, authentic to help bring stories to life on screen.

Props are any movable item that can be seen.

It could be a hat, gun, cushion, wine glass, light saver.

We've got drawers and drawers here of all sorts of sets of China.

Then we've got the table knives, dessert knives, dessert forks and so on.

Props don't traditionally come in for awards, but behind the scenes, they support a whole industry of expertise. In this program, we'll discuss the growing financial pressures on prop makers.

The work that is out there is being given smaller budgets for us to try and squeeze the same

quality of work into.

And coming under the spotlight for the wrong reasons.

There should never, ever, ever, ever be any live rounds anywhere near a film set.

And we'll get an exclusive preview of Hollywood's newest award ceremony for this long

overlooked specialism. That's all coming up in today's program.

In an unsuspecting residential area of West London, there's a warehouse with an anonymous

fronts and heavy security.

It hides a labyrinthine wonderland called Farley.

Mark Farley is its chief executive.

Okay, this is the portrait of my father. He started the business in 1962. He and my mother had a picture framing business in Hoban and a film designer walked in and said, would you hire that picture in the window for a film? And my dad thought,'s a great idea and as he was an artist he would

do whatever they needed he'd frame it and send it out so that was the initial genesis of the whole

business and over the years we've added and added you know thousands and thousands of items

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