20 Things You Didn’t Know About The Green Mile
6. Period Inauthenticity Part 3 - Product Placement
This is where we get to the really anal retentive part of the period inauthenticity section of the article. Feel free to roll your eyes, but it has to be done.
That edition of Weird Tales that Delacroix is reading in 1935 was published in November 1937.
The quartz clock used in the room with Old Sparky might have been invented in 1927, but it wasn’t actually used anywhere in the world until the 1940s - and that was in laboratories.
Those particular bottles of Royal Crown Cola the guards drink were made in the 1950s. Before 1936, when painted bottles began to be used, the bottles would have been unadorned.
Back in the 1930s, Scotch tape was a brand new invention and completely lost its adhesive qualities when wet - so it would never have been used to gag someone.
The worn old clock on the desk in E block is a Westclox Big Ben Style 5, a model designed and marketed between 1939 and 1949.