[GreenKeys] Valkyrie

[Don Robert House]

WONDERFUL HENNING!

THANKS FOR ALL OF YOUR GREAT WORK.

I KNOW HOW MUCH WORK IT CAN BE!!!

GOD BLESS,

Don
K9TTY


On 11 Jan 2009, at 10:12 AM, Henning DF3OE wrote:

Hi Frank and others,

nice that you already have watched Valkyrie, here in Germany we have to
wait until January 22nd.

The film was almost totally filmed in Germany at the Babelsberg film  
studios
in Berlin in October 2007.
And you won'nt believe, the machines are absolutely historical correct.
I was the technical consultant... ;-)

The teleprinter room was equipped with almost 30 machines, provided by  
me
from my collection and from the collections of friends.
It was the most historical correct movie I have worked for so
far...except that the
German Army used mainly "strip tape printers" , like Wold Western
Union telegrams.
Page printers very mostly used by the Air force for weathers services.
But for the movie, the messages were better readable on a page printers
so we decided to print out the main messages on page printers,
namely Lorenz Lo15 which is a Teletype model 15 licence,
built in Germany since the late 1920s.
The film crew was very keen to make everything as authentic as possible.

We equipped the teleprinter room with following type of machines:

Lorenz Lo15 (page printer), already mentioned
Lorenz T32/36Lo (tape printer, model 14 licence), printing on a gummed  
tape
Siemens T34 (tape printer), printing on a gummed tape
Siemens T37 (page printer)
Siemens Tloch 1 tape punch
Siemens Tsend 1 tape transmitter (tape distributor, as you call it).
Lorenz HL38 tape punch
Lorenz LS36 tape transmitter (model 14 licence, tape distibutor as you  
call it)
Feldhellschreiber
etc.

All machines were running ! Sometimes all together :-)
We fed them via 10 circuits from notebooks and
also from more modern teleprinters by tape from backstage.
We have layed almost half a mile of "bell wire" to the machines...

All together me and friends stayed a whole week at the studios to
build up the room and supported the filming.
All sent and printed messages were original from archives. But I would
think that
they used English language messages for the English language version
of the movie.

After the release of the movie here in Germany I will give some  
(background)
information of this project on my website www.teleprinter.net

73,
Henning DF3OE
Wendeburg/Germany

www.teleprinter.net


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2009/1/11  <kf9nz at juno.com>:
>       Just got a look at the new flick.  Being a student of WWII
> history, I know quite a bit about the 20 April plot.  Most of the  
> facts
> are pretty good, but it was surprising to see that the Nazi's were  
> using
> U.S. made tty's. in 1944    (tongue firmly in cheek)  Too bad they  
> didn't
> have a good technical consultant as some other movie makers we  
> know.   Of
> course the U.S. made machines were printing in English too.   I  
> remember
> "Patton" and "Longest Day" had the Nazis speaking German with  
> subtitles.
> Seemed very effective, but I guess that would be too much for this  
> epic.
>
> Frankf9nz
>
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