Her name is Deborah Ricketts. If you ever go to the movies, you will often see her handiwork though you will never see her. She is never listed in the credits, although she ought to get credit for a lot of what you see in the movies. What is her job? She is an independent researcher for the film industry. For anyone who wants their movie to be truly authentic, not fake, the movie to be accurate and the facts to be reliable, all you have to do is send your script and a sizeable check to this former librarian and before you know it, you are watching a factual explosion take place.
If you are making a film that was set back in the 1930s, then everything needs to look like the 1930s. You can't have a person singing a song that had not yet been written or reading a newspaper that had yet to be…