[Hallicrafters] old radios in the movies

[Duane Fischer, W8DBF]

Hi Bill,

Instead of concluding that the studio heads figured that the public on the 
whole would never notice it was a receiver with a hand mike plugged into the 
external speaker jack, suppose they were playing it safe? There were no 
antennas connected, so transmitting accidentally could result in damage to 
the borrowed prop. Additionally, suppose the curiosity of stage hands or the 
actors or actresses, or those who had one too many beverages for lunch, got 
the better of their adherence to the "do not touch the props" policy? They 
illegally operate a transmitter, interfere with local air traffic and ... 
studio has a big lawsuit to help overcome the cities budget deficit! Thus, a 
receiver is safe. Not even the studio executives, most of whom need a Guide 
Dog to find their way home after a days work of TV series or movie 
production, to keep them from falling into open man holes with missing 
covers. Since doing so would awaken the sleeping city workers collecting 
overtime, actually down there repairing the clogged document and contract 
shredder disposal pipe! Not even these executives could screw up and 
transmit with a receiver.

Is anyone out there putting together a list of all the product names and 
model numbers for the various receivers, transmitters and transceivers seen 
on the silver screen? Maybe the television screen also? If so, who is it?

Nice work there William! Can you tell us Bill, did Clark Kent wear briefs or 
boxers?

Duane W8DBF


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill Gerhold" <k2wh at optonline.net>
To: <hallicrafters at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Friday, March 03, 2006 5:34 PM
Subject: RE: [Hallicrafters] old radios in the movies


> Tis nothing!  Just got DVD's of the old Superman series and in one of the
> series, where scientists, experimenting with nuclear power cause a reactor
> to run out of control.  In order to stop the reaction from running away 
> and
> destroying the city, a control rod must be extracted from one location in
> the nuclear pile and inserted in another location in the nuclear pile.
>
> As conscientious and moral people, they must notify the city management of
> this event (Metropolis).  One of the scientists gets on the "Shortwave" to
> broadcast directly to the police and civil defense.  He is using and S-20r
> as a transmitter but, sitting atop the s-20r are (2) CA-2 Aircraft
> transceivers.  Nice view of all (3).
>
> Of course, Clark Kent has a Halli on his desk, an S-20R to receive the
> distress call and quickly dismisses Lois and Jimmy so he can change to
> Superman to save the day.
>
> K2WH
>
> P.S.  Now that I am 56 years old, I notice Lois is really a babe.
>
>
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