Bart Simpson cut a stencil. "Raiders of the Lost Ark" ends with a stencil on fire. Mad magazine inserted stencils into one of their 1967 reprint specials. In the 1972 film "Live at Pompeii," Pink Floyd's gear stencils became so famous, the Beastie Boys used their equipment to shoot a similar music video in 1992.
Since the beginning of the Stencil Archive project, we have posted stencils that appear in media. Media is a loose term for any stencils not found in the streets or galleries. Stencils show up in TV shows, movies, documentaries, animated and drawn cartoons, etc.. Come to think of it, possibly one of the most famous stencils from the 1970s, M*A*S*H, is not on here! We just added it.
The Stencils In Media archive update includes a few other new ones, mostly recent grabs of band gear stencils from the 1960s and 70s. We cannot post this without saying thanks to X-Sacto, who may be one of the only artists and contributors that has sent us screen grabs from various video media over the years.