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

[Troglodite at aol.com]

In a message dated 3/13/05 3:08:55 PM Central Standard Time,  
wa4tuk-rf at comcast.net writes:

> 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?
 
The receiver shown in that shot was an S-20R. The "CRT" was shown where the  
speaker grille normally would have been. I suspect the CRT images were CGI'd  
into the scene like everything else. The receiver did not represent a real  
model. To my knowledge, the only Hallicrafter products with CRT's were the  
Panoramic Adaptors intended for use with SX-28's. I don't remember if the Dual  
Diversity had a CRT on it but I don't think so. Hollywood is not exactly  
faithful to technical correctness. In the movie, "Zontar, thing from Venus" a  guy 
talks to mars using a General Radio signal generator.
 
All that said though, I liked the movie. I thought they were faithful to  the 
genre' from which it came, and broke some new ground at the same time. I was  
raised on the Republic serials, so the format was very familiar. I suspect 
the  Hallicrafters S-20R was used just because it looked "cool" but not quite 
cool  enough, so a CRT was added.
 
Doug Moore KB9TMY