Let’s say a movie about London in the 30′ wants to have a scene about driving car, how they make it? It’s all CGI? Or they have some tricks? How they use historic artificats?
In addition how they make complex places like a scene inside a nuclear reactor is it all CGI? Or they build a fake place?
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There are companies that rent out cars. They have everything, or they can get it. So generally you would use old cars. Yes, it gets expensive, but when you have budgets from 10 million to 100+ million, you can afford things like this.
They can also change signs on a street and change decor to make it match the time period. Some things may have to be edited, for example, nobody is going to tear down utility poles if it doesn’t fit the movie time frame or location. They might try camera angles to avoid them though. (or maybe scout a different location if it works better)
As for something like a Nuclear reactor, they would probably just build a set. But they could find an actual nuclear reactor if they really wanted to.
(For example, Zwentendorf Nuclear Power Plant was commissioned, but never opened and has been in a few movies: https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?locations=Zwentendorf,+Austria
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