Lightning rifle prop used in The Matrix Revolutions: Museum Object and Cultural History
Lightning rifle prop used in The Matrix Revolutions: date made: before 2003. Object Name: prop. Object Name: weapon.
The object in the museum catalogue
Lightning rifle prop used in the 2003 science fiction film The Matrix Revolutions. The prop is a large futuristic-style gun with a cylindrical shaped nozzle, small monitor on top, and black duct tape around both of its two handles. Various molded plastic components are attached together with adhesives and painted black or silver, then toned to appear aged and distressed.
Materials, dates and provenance
- date made: before 2003
- Object Name: prop
- Object Name: weapon
- Object Name: movie prop
- Object Name: gun
- Physical Description: plastic (overall material)
- Physical Description: tape (overall material)
- Physical Description: metal (overall material)
- Measurements: overall: 9 1/2 in x 27 in x 12 in; 24.13 cm x 68.58 cm x 30.48 cm
- associated subject: Movie
- associated subject: Guns
- associated subject: Firearms
- ID Number: 2013.0001.26
- accession number: 2013.0001
- catalog number: 2013.0001.26
- collector/donor number: 103831
- Credit Line: Gift from Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc.
- Data Source: National Museum of American History
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