Realistic Life Size Insect Props
Authentically Detailed Insect & Bug Replicas
amazing reproductions, each individually hand crafted
Film Flies, based in Burbank, CA, specializes in design, fabrication and supply of realistic insect replicas for filming, photography, advertising, natural history museums, arboretums, retail window displays, psychologists treating phobias...
Film Flies - realistic insect props have solved a number of logistical problems for film studios and photographers including Disney, Universal Studios, Paramount Pictures, Warner Brothers, Sony/Columbia Pictures, HBO & NBC Universal Television.
Professional service and attention to detail are the cornerstones of this progressive and innovative company.
Film Flies makes the most realistic, lifelike insect props available for the motion picture industry
Most any species can be replicated with exquisite detail
Film Flies provides Prompt, Courteous and Professional Service...
Custom orders readily accepted, rent or purchase, depending on your needs
Species include: Realistic houseflies, bees, wasps, yellow jackets, spiders, butterflies, cockroaches, mosquito's, bedbugs, crickets, beetles, grasshoppers, dragonflies, mayflies, stoneflies, caddis flies, ants, termites, scorpions, arachnids, maggots, horse flies, centipedes, millipedes, inch-worms, caterpillars, etc, as well as salamanders, small turtles, crayfish, slugs,...


Realistic Asian Mosquitoes

Realistic black Blow Fly - A number of them will be seen in Law & Order SVU season 3

Realistic Slugs created for Universal Pictures "Little Fockers"

Realistic Orb Weaver spider - Columbia Pictures
Unfortunately this photo doesn't show the fully detailed spider, it was shipped before re-photographing

Realistic Butterfly prop - for Bruce Eisenberg Photography - cosmetics

Realistic Fake Butterflies - caterpillar, chrysalis, emerger, and animatronic adult with fluttering wings
Pictured above is one of four prop sets created for Disney's Imagination Movers TV show
Realistic butterflies with fluttering wings

212 realistic moths for Sony/Columbia Pictures

Options
include:
Fishing hook core, allows for quick secure positioning, allowing for compressed-air wing motion
Flexible and bendable wire core, allowing for posing and animating
1mm Hollow core, allowing for flight down a wire
Internal Muscle Wire, Nitinol Wire, Flexinol Wire and/or Biometal Fiber, allowing for motion induced with electricity
Sponge filled body cavities allowing for extracting fluids with needle and syringe
Hollow bugs, that squirt fluid when stepped or stomped on
etc.....

One of four Fireflies, illuminated with 5mm LED, with custom Film Flies battery box, for Traktor Films
Fireflies can also be made smaller with 2mm LED's

Realistic Ants

Realistic life size houseflies - created for the film Cirque du Freak
A collection
of these flies were created for the movie The Curious Case of
Benjamin Button,
and filmed immersed in honey, in a scene with Brad Pitt
Film Flies houseflies will also be featured in HBO's new comedy series "Hung" and Sony's "Breaking Bad"
Select Productions Featuring Film Flies Creations
Moths
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Green Hornet - Film Honeybees |
Law & Order SVU - TV Blowflies |
Breaking Bad - season 3- TV Lots of Houseflies |
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A Perfect Getaway - Film Scorpions |
Cirque du Freak - Film Numerous Houseflies |
Disney - Imagination Movers - TV Houseflies & Butterflies |
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HBO - Hung -TV Houseflies |
Law & Order - Criminal Intent - TV Bedbugs |
Little Britain USA - TV Wasp |
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Pushing Daisies - TV Bees |
Benjamin Button - Film Houseflies
Spiders |
Bedtime Stories - Film Bees |
Bugs Work for Advertising
Moosejaw Mountaineering catalog features Bugs from Film Flies

Moosejaw rented an assortment of 40 different insects for their fall 2009 advertising and catalog

Realistic Honeybees - Tear proof wing material makes handling them a breeze
April 2009 - Mikimoto Pearls - Spring Window Display photos

Creepy and Colorful Camel Spider

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