[Hallicrafters] SX-17 on Battle Star Galactica!!!!

[Patrick A. Thompson Sr.]

If you have the chance to view "Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow" 
there's a quick shot of a Hallicrafter's (something) with built in scope.

The off-topic question is, was this a real radio or a composite made 
just for this movie?

Pat
wa4tuk

Bill Gerhold wrote:
> Battle Star Gallactica, a fictitious series about the last remaining 
> human escaping the Cylon machines which have exterminated all the 
> human inhabitants of earth.  The series is about these remaining 
> humans in very large spaceships trying to outwit the Cylon's in an 
> attempt to find a new world to rebuild the human race.  It is a 
> series on the SciFi Channel.  I am referring to the current episode which
> started this Friday the 5th, that I believe will run all this week until a
> new episode next Friday.   
> 
> Last night, watching the series mentioned above, a scene in which the ships
> doctor is in his laboratory, I momentarily spotted what I thought was an
> SX-17 sitting on the shelf behind the good doctor.  No way.  Couldn't have
> been an SX-17.  Anyway, now aware of what I thought I saw, I watched more
> closely and in the very next frame or scene, there it was clearly, a very
> good view of an SX-17 or 16 sitting on a shelf behind and above the right
> shoulder of the doctor looking like a piece of lab equipment.
> 
> The round silver dial, the "S" meter and bandspread were all there.  
> Later in the show, another view of the radio confirming what I was 
> seeing an actual SX-17 or 16 on the shelf.
> 
> Bottom line, its good to see a Hallicrafters rig is still in 
> existence many centuries into the future and being used as something even as
> a prop in a series.  If there are any other SciFi fans, and fans of Battle
> Star Galactica, I would like someone else to confirm what I saw.  I feel
> certain it is an actual SX-17.
> 
> 
> Bill
> K2WH
> 
> 
> ................... Bill (K2WH) ..........................
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