[TMC] Ghostbusters II - DDR-5

[Richard Knoppow]

    I have had a little experience with set dressing. It can be 
difficult. Two stories:
    In the famous novel "The Maltese Falcon" the weapon used to 
murder Sam Spade's partner is described as "A Webley-Fosbery 
autommatic revolver, 38 caliber, 8 shot". I think this was a joke 
on Dashiel Hammet's part because so many mystery writers did not 
know the difference between an automatic and a revolver. However 
the Webley-Fosbery was both. In the movie version there is a a 
quick shot of the gun but the one shown is the 6 shot 45 calibaer 
version. They look very much the same. The 38 is a much rarer gun 
than the 45 and I suspect the Warner Brothers prop department 
could not find one. Its on screen for maybe three seconds and 
most people would not spot it.
     I saw part of a western on You Tube, can't remember the 
name. In it there is a close  up of a telegraph set. On the side 
of the sounder is clearly stamped E.F.Johnson. Well the movie is 
supposed to be in the  1870s sometime and Johnson did not begain 
making telegraph equipment until sometime in the 1950s. Maybe it 
was a joke on someone's part.

On 10/9/2019 8:00 AM, Nick England wrote:
> I watched that "Made for TV" movie about the John Walker spy case hoping to
> see some interesting equipment. Instead they showed a bunch of Navy
> Radiomen using HP 608 signal generators as receivers - Barf!
> 
> But sometimes Hollywood does OK. Some years ago my little company had our
> 3D laser scanner in a CSI TV episode - they pretty much showed everything
> correctly except for turning our infrared beam into a visible red one to
> show up. And the CSI set had about the best lab equipment I have seen.
> Cheers,
> Nick England K4NYW
> www.navy-radio.com


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Richard Knoppow
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