Artistry In Motion, Inc.

01/12/2025

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01/02/2025

It's a new year, a new project.

April of 2025 will usher in the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution. Here at AIM, we have already begun working on three separate museum projects and building up our inventory for what we hope will be the beginning of many film and TV projects commemorating our independence.

Today, AIM started putting the last of our Hessian Cartridge Boxes together.  As always, we make our products to high standards of authenticity. It has taken three different artisans to complete this project that we started last year. I may add that we are the only Prop House that carries these types of accouterments. 

 

#1775

01/02/2025

Model 1836 C**t Paterson Revolver

With backing from his cousin and other investors C**t established the Patent Arms Company, building a factory in Paterson, New Jersey in late 1836. The Patent Arms Company produced a variety of revolvers in different sizes including pocket, belt and holster models. The .28 caliber Pocket Model No.1 being the smallest and the .36 caliber No.5 holster revolver being the largest. The company produced approximately 2,300 – 2,800 fi****ms (sources have various estimates on just how many revolvers and revolving rifles were manufactured) before the company collapsed, due to insufficient sales, in 1842.

It was the No.5 which saw the greatest sales with small numbers being purchased by the Texas Rangers, Texan Navy and private citizens. The US Army reportedly tested C**t’s revolver in February and June 1837, finding a number of weaknesses to the design. Despite the approval of President Andrew Jackson the US military remained largely uninterested in the Paterson.

Small numbers of the revolvers were purchased by the U.S. government including 100 for the Navy in 1841 and 50 for the Army in 1845 after the company had collapsed. The Republic of Texas also purchased 180 revolvers for its navy in 1839.

While the Patent Arms Company had begun adding a loading lever to their revolvers in 1839. They had continued to produce their legendary pistol, with out as a cheaper option. Much like the one in the above photo.

This beautiful reproduction has been reworked by Master Gun Smith John G. Zimmerman of Harpers Ferry, WV. and Mark Novak of Mt. Pleasent, SC.
2 currently available

01/02/2025

19th Centaury Parfleche Envelope

A parfleche is a Native American rawhide container that is embellished by painting, incising, or both.
Envelope-shaped parfleches have historically been used to contain items such as household tools or foods, such as dried meat or pemmican. They were commonly made in pairs and hung from saddles. Their designs may have once served as maps. In contemporary usage, they may carry social, spiritual, and symbolic meaning, or be part of dance or parade regalia.

The bags are usually decorated with a distinctive style of graphic artwork, often symbolizing landscape features such as rivers and mountains. Historically women were the main creators of parfleches, first painting stretched-out raw hides, then shaping them into their final form. In the 21st century, both women and men make them.
The reproduction one pictured above is of Sioux style has the addition of scraps red trade wool.

12/24/2024

The close of another year

 2024 was promising to be another bumper year... it kind of came and went. And we now look forward to the next. 

Artistry in Motion Inc. (AIM) has had almost no involvement with television shows and feature films this year as the film industry is in the middle of trying to recover from bad management along with redefining itself. While most looked at this as a doom and gloom sunset, we took advantage of working on a new National Level Museum project along with five smaller museum projects.

 Throughout the year, AIM demonstrated repeatedly our founding principles for being multifaceted and giving 100% when it comes to the quality that we bring. One of our greatest joys and experiences this year was the opportunity to help create reels with two talented directors for what will become their next big projects. We also supported several small independent films that needed help. Helping others to make their dreams come true is one of the things we do best.

 As always, AIM added to our already immense inventory this year in preparation for the inevitable film industry rebound by adding over a thousand new items and weapons. Planning ahead helps many of our fabricators and trades men and women keep working. As these wonderfully talented people have become friends of mine, I do feel some responsibility to help them through these lean times. I am very grateful to be able to do so. 

 AIM continues to support our established clients by working within their budgets to stretch every penny as far as possible and delivery beyond what is expected.  In this way, we carry the given spirit year around.

 I never get tired of thanking the countless individuals who have a role in making this all possible.

 Merry Christmas and Happiest of Holidays,

 Jeremiah D. Hornbaker

 Owner

          # HappyHolidays

12/21/2024

This is a sneak peek of what we have been working on most of this year. We will be releasing more information as the grand opening date gets closer.

The National Museum of the United States Army shares plans for their latest Special Exhibit, opening in June 2025!Experience the sights and sounds of the Ame...

12/05/2024

It is always an honor to be asked to be instructors for the History of Weapons and Firepower class. After the Cadets take this course as classroom instruction, they come to range to actually load and fire, five hundred years of fi****ms evolution. Hands-on experience is the best teacher.

AIM, Inc. proved the 17th century weapons, Furguson Breachloading Flintlock Rifle, and an Army New Model C**t Revolver. Our team acted as the instructors on a full auto PPSH and MP-40 Sub Machain Guns.

# fi****mstraining

11/21/2024

This was one of my favorite sets we built this year.  A fully functional replica of an American Civil War soldiers winter quarters. With real functioning fire place. Just in time to warm your imaginations by the fire.
This was recreated for Lionheart FilmWorks and their new attempt to remake the classic " Red Badge of Courage."

Please also visit the youtub link below to watch our amazing team. Build this in a rear behind the sceans video.

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# AmericanCivilWar FilmWorks # GreensDepartment # logcabin

11/03/2024

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08/13/2024

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07/22/2024

18th century French hand mortar
This firearm and early predecessor of modern gr***de launchers that was used in the late 17th century and 18th century to throw fused gr***des. The action was similar to a flintlock, matchlock, or wheellock firearm (depending on the date of production), but the barrel was short, usually 2 inches to 4 inches long (though some are reported to have barrels up to 13 inches long and had a large bore to accommodate the gr***de; usually between 2 and 2.5 inches.

The first references to the type of gr***de used in a hand mortar occur in a 1472 work titled Valturius, where an incendiary prototype may have been produced. However, widespread use of the explosive gr***de does not occur until the early-to-mid-16th century under Francis I of France. An early casualty of this type of gr***de was Count de Randan who died of shrapnel wounds to the legs from a gr***de during the Siege of Rouen (probably the battle of Issoire) in 1562. Explosive gr***des were made from brass, glass, and possibly clay, and incendiary projectiles were made from canvas, however, Nathanael Nye, Master Gunner of the City of Worcester in a work titled Art of Gunnery published in 1647, remarks that the soldiers of his day were not fond of handling the gr***des because they were too dangerous. While there are substantial records of infantry units called grenadiers throughout the 18th century in Europe, these units generally threw the gr***des by hand.

This beautiful and faithful reproduction was built by Master Gunsmith Kevin Bevins of North Carolina.

07/22/2024

Jacobs Staff Or Cross Staff ca. 1500's
The original Jacob's staff was developed as a single pole device, in the 14th century, that was used in making astronomical measurements. It was first described by the French-Jewish mathematician Levi ben Gerson of Provence, in his "Book of the Wars of the Lord" (translated in Latin as well as Hebrew). He used a Hebrew name for the staff that translates to "Revealer of Profundities", while the term "Jacob's staff" was used by his Christian contemporaries. Its invention was likely due to fellow French-Jewish astronomer Jacob ben Makir, who also lived in Provence in the same period. Attribution to 15th century Austrian astronomer Georg Purbach is less likely, because Purbach was not born until 1423. (Such attributions may refer to a different instrument with the same name.) Its origins maybe traced to the Chaldeans around 400 BC.

Although it has become quite accepted that ben Gerson first described Jacob's staff, the British Sinologist Joseph Needham theorizes that the Song dynasty Chinese scientist Shen Kuo (1031–1095), in his Dream Pool Essays of 1088, described a Jacob's staff.
Shen was an antiquarian interested in ancient objects; after he unearthed an ancient crossbow-like device from a home's garden in Jiangsu, he realized it had a sight with a graduated scale that could be used to measure the heights of distant mountains, likening it to how mathematicians measure heights by using right-angle triangles. He wrote that when one viewed the whole breadth of a mountain with it, the distance on the instrument was long; when viewing a small part of the mountainside, the distance was short; this, he wrote, was due to the cross piece that had to be pushed further away from the eye, while the graduation started from the further end. Needham does not mention any practical application of this observe at During the medieval European Renaissance, the Dutch mathematician and surveyor Adriaan Metius developed his own Jacob's staff; Dutch mathematician Gemma Frisius made improvements to this instrument. In the 15th century, the German mathematician Johannes Müller (called Regiomontanus) made the instrument popular in geodesic and astronomical measurements.

07/22/2024

19th Centaury Ceramic Phrenology Head Map

Phrenology or craniology is a pseudoscience that involves the measurement of bumps on the skull to predict mental traits. It is based on the concept that the brain is the organ of the mind, and that certain brain areas have localized, specific functions or modules. It was said that the brain was composed of different muscles, so those that were used more often were bigger, resulting in the different skull shapes. This provided reasoning for the common presence of bumps on the skull in different locations. The brain "muscles" not being used as frequently remained small and were therefore not present on the exterior of the skull. Although both of those ideas have a basis in reality, phrenology generalizes beyond empirical knowledge in a way that departs from science. The central phrenological notion that measuring the contour of the skull can predict personality traits is discredited by empirical research. Developed by German physician Franz Joseph Gall in 1796, the discipline was influential in the 19th century, especially from about 1810 until 1840. The principal British center for phrenology was Edinburgh, where the Edinburgh Phrenological Society was established in 1820.

07/21/2024

At the end of the work day, riding in a gator, heading back to our work trucks. After a long day on the TV show Bass Reeves. I was able to catch this amazing photo. One of our wranglers chasing the sunset.

This was the most western moment I've ever witnessed. Too bad it wasn't on filmed on that evening on the 10th of February, 2023.

# horsewrangler # BassReeves

07/13/2024

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