Robin Hood's Props

 

Did you know about Robin Hood’s Props? In 2011, while watching a re-run of TV’s The Adventures of Robin Hood starring Richard Greene, I recognised those distinct chairs designed by Carmen Dillon for Walt Disney’s Story of Robin Hood (1952). Later, during an episode of Robin of Sherwood (1984-1986), I noticed the Sheriff (Nickolas Grace) sat in one! 

But, that was not all! I also noticed Allan Wheatley, the Sheriff of Nottingham in TV’s Adventures of Robin Hood series often wore Peter Finch’s ‘Sheriff’ costume from The Story of Robin Hood.

After my blog post about this, my readers noticed those chairs appeared in several other medieval adventure films. These included Men of Sherwood (1954), which used other props and costumes from the Disney movie. 

No doubt, ‘Robin Hood’s Chairs’ were shipped out of Denham Studios with all the other thousands of props after Rank Organisation stopped film production after Disney’s Story of Robin Hood was completed. Probably, they were hired out for various projects for the small and silver screen. Laurence points out that The Black Knight was made at Pinewood, which could explain the availability of the chairs as props. 

With the help of my blog readers, I started a small list of some of the film and television productions that have used props from Disney’s Story of Robin Hood (1952) up to 64 years later:

The Men of Sherwood Forest (Film:1954)

The Black Knight (Film:1954)

The Adventures of Robin Hood (TV:1955-58)

The Dark Avenger (Film:1955)

Ivanhoe (TV:1958) Ep.The Night Raiders

(featuring Joan Rice. Joan would have remembered those chairs from her days filming on the sound stages at Denham Studio).

Sword of Sherwood Forest (Film:1960)

Robin of Sherwood (TV:1984-86)

The Mission - Stay With Me (Official Video) 1986

Horrible Histories (TV: 2013-15)

If you can add more, don't hesitate to get in touch with me.