[GreenKeys] Valkyrie

[gil at baudot.net]

Wow Henning, that's very cool -- a lot of machinery you got together for
the movie.  

I'll need to check out that movie now.

thanks,

gil


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> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: [GreenKeys] Valkyrie
> From: "Henning Treumann" <df3oe.henning at googlemail.com>
> Date: Sun, January 11, 2009 9:10 am
> To: kf9nz at juno.com, GreenKeys at mailman.qth.net
> 
> 
> 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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