Re: Vintage Radios, TVs etc in films and on TV (not anachronisms)
 

The one I had as a kid was a 1500 hybrid chassis but they could have used similar cabinet with different chassis.

Re: Vintage Radios, TVs etc in films and on TV (not anachronisms)
 

This is the chassis I mentioned earlier, the TV in it is the Ferguson version:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5rseV4SAtw

Lawrence.

Re: Vintage Radios, TVs etc in films and on TV (not anachronisms)
 

Can't make out the names of the two TV's on the opening scene on Rab C. Nesbitt but they look a bit Vega etc etc?
Anyone know?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvBf4ElDW0E

Re: Vintage Radios, TVs etc in films and on TV (not anachronisms)
 

On Sunday evening, Talking Pictures TV showed the 1961 British Transport Films' "Terminus", an early work of film director John Schlesinger. It covered a 24 hour period of the goings on at London Waterloo station. One scene was looking at the lost property office and the first thing to catch my eye was a Bakelite GEC BT1091 sitting on a shelf!

Re: Vintage Radios, TVs etc in films and on TV (not anachronisms)
 

Here's an off-screen photo (never seen so many lost umbrellas!):

Re: Vintage Radios, TVs etc in films and on TV (not anachronisms)
 

Who ever had left the GEC in lost property?

Re: Vintage Radios, TVs etc in films and on TV (not anachronisms)
 

Yes that looks like it.

Re: Vintage Radios, TVs etc in films and on TV (not anachronisms)
 

The only Ultra I can find at the moment that had the 1500 chassis and some appearance similarities to the Ultra 6850 is the Ultra 6823.

Lawrence.

Re: Vintage Radios, TVs etc in films and on TV (not anachronisms)
 

Going back...back in time.. The Sweeney. Episode: 'Contact Breaker'

An Avometer (probably a Model 7 or 40) is used to frame an ex-con. Textronix scopes and other equipment are also seen in a repair workshop.

Dave

Re: Vintage Radios, TVs etc in films and on TV (not anachronisms)
 

The Flying Squad again- Episode 'Country Boy'

Re: Vintage Radios, TVs etc in films and on TV (not anachronisms)
 

Are those probes with the overall shroud at the meter end period correct for an AVO 7?

Scopes used on The Prisoner- Roband RO50
 

In an episode of the Prisoner recently I spotted this scope, see pic, but can't find a lot about them. Anyone familiar with them at all? This one looks a bit HP ish but others that have come up look like Tek copies..

Andy.

Re: Vintage Radios, TVs etc in films and on TV (not anachronisms)
 

If advertisements count, the current one exhorting people to use actual shops for shopping starts with a glimpse of the Sony radio that was de rigueur when I was working in Saudi Arabia. Mine still works and always accompanies me when holidaying.

Re: Scopes used on The Prisoner- Roband RO50
 

I recall a Roband 19" format 'scope very much like that in the physics lab at school in the early '80s, with interchangeable modules secured by long studding with chrome heads, it was a hybrid and looked very well made. One of the bigger valves, presumably a regulator, had thin metal push-over finning around the envelope, the first time I'd come across this. It just sat in a remote cupboard and never seemed to get used, possibly if I'd had a quiet diplomatic hint with the right personality, I might have been able to secure it. I suspect it became land-fill long, long ago,

Colin

Re: Vintage Radios, TVs etc in films and on TV (not anachronisms)
 

Not the first vintage radio spotted on Coronation Street but I don’t think this one has been posted before, apologies if it has.

Whilst not really watching (honest) I caught a glimpse of a radio so took a screen shot from ITV hub, it’s an Alba and presumably a 472.

John

Re: Vintage Radios, TVs etc in films and on TV (not anachronisms)
 

From the sci-fi series Sanctuary starring Amanda Tapping (Stargate). I see an AR88, a SX28, above that a HRO and far right is a National NC100 series.

Re: Vintage Radios, TVs etc in films and on TV (not anachronisms)
 

I've just caught up with that. For extra points, did anyone spot that the back of the magazine or paper being carried by the eccentric old lady had a 'Pye' logo on it?

Unsurprisingly also a good film for those of us who are also steam buffs. Everything in it looks to me like ancient history but in reality the film is just... one year older than I am. :-[

Re: Vintage Radios, TVs etc in films and on TV (not anachronisms)
 

I've just finished the film version of Quatermass & The Pit which I recorded off Talking Pictures TV.

This features a very early Bush colour TV in a pub & some ATV OB cameras & other equipment.

Re: Vintage Radios, TVs etc in films and on TV (not anachronisms)
 

In the original "The Quatermass Experiment" there are no less than three R1155 receivers and three T1154 transmitters dressing the space-ship interior.
We saw a lot of wobbly cardboard sets on TV at the time, but this clearly wasn't one of them.

Re: Vintage Radios, TVs etc in films and on TV (not anachronisms)
 

The BTF "Terminus" film shows a scene where PA announcements are being spoken.
On the desk is a free standing Elliott audio voltmeter used to monitor output.

Re: Vintage Radios, TVs etc in films and on TV (not anachronisms)
 

The Talking pictures channel is great for spotting old equipment .Lots of mainly Bush tellies and DECCA radiograms.record players and radios als well as other domestic apps .Vacuum cleaners washers ect.Its funny when watching some of these old programmes how all this equipment looks lovingly familiar even though its long gone

Re: Vintage Radios, TVs etc in films and on TV (not anachronisms)
 

I was given the Yes Minister box set for Christmas.

Some episodes have a TV in the office, as well as some scenes where Jim Hacker is being interviewed on TV, complete with studio equipment in shot.

I'll try to get some screen shots when I can.

Re: Vintage Radios, TVs etc in films and on TV (not anachronisms)
 

Here's a screenshot from the Yes Minister episode Big Brother.

This set looks early - mid 1970s, I guess Sir Humphrey has departmental finances on a tight budget!

I think the same set is used in a few different episodes.

Re: Vintage Radios, TVs etc in films and on TV (not anachronisms)
 

In an episode of Poirot a couple of nights ago there was a brief shot of the villain unplugging a light bulb. It was very brief, but I am pretty sure it was a genuine pre-war bulb where the brass bayonet cap is longer than the modern ones, having a wider extension about twice as wide as the bayonet itself, into which the bottom of the glass bulb is seated.

Re: Vintage Radios, TVs etc in films and on TV (not anachronisms)
 

Here's the TV I mentioned previously in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

Radio in "The Price"
 

Seen on The Andrew Marr show 17.02.19
Looks like a Philips 830A from 1932

Re: Vintage Radios, TVs etc in films and on TV (not anachronisms)
 

Early on in the first episode of the new CH4 series 'Traitors' set just after the war, a character turns on a wireless which may or may not be appropriate for the time: But it comes on instantly.

Re: Vintage Radios, TVs etc in films and on TV (not anachronisms)
 

Maybe it was a battery set. :-)

Re: Vintage Radios, TVs etc in films and on TV (not anachronisms)
 

Here is a screenshot of the radio in episode one of Traitors. Strangely enough it's an Australian model. A Kriesler 11-20 from 1948/49.

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For those with Netflix there is a Japanese animation about a television. There’s no dialogue.

“In the 1980s, a recently discarded television set from the 1960s refuses to accept its fate and tries to break out of the junkyard.”

The title is: Golden Time

David

Re: Vintage Radios, TVs etc in films and on TV (not anachronisms)
 

I've heard of the title but not seen it.

In another series someone finds a time capsule with a Sonv pocket radio inside, & asked if that's what Sony used to be called.

It's common for products in Japanse media to have the brand names changed slightly.

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On Saturday evening I was watching the '6.5 special' film via a recently acquired Blu-Ray Disc, and I'm sure that in at least one scene featuring Diane Todd as 'Anne', there was an Ever Ready Sky King portable radio prominently visible. In 1958, when the film was both made and set, we had the similar Sky Queen. Bulky, heavy things to carry around, but transistor portables were new and expensive items back then!

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Watching an episode (Flight to Jawani) of 'It ain't half hot mum', and one scene shows a control tower communicating with a flying fortress. As below. I've no idea what the equipment shown is.
Tony

BBC1 Summer of Rockets
 

Interesting first episode of this 6-part period drama tonight. Set in the mid 1950s, we soon learn the protagonist (Toby Stephens) owns an electronics factory, we see stacks of radios around and lots of test gear, he brings home his first TV, there's a bedroom Bush, lots to spot and no doubt more to come.

Re: BBC1 Summer of Rockets
 

Great stuff,I recorded it and look forward.

Re: BBC1 Summer of Rockets
 

In the trailer there's a chap in a toilet cubicle fumbling with a mini reel-to-reel recorder, much like the rim-drive models of the early '60s. I wonder if anyone can identify the model. It's probably an anachronism but acceptable in the context.
Graham

Re: BBC2 Summer of Rockets
 

The Thread title should be altered. According to my copy of Radio Times 'Summer of Rockets' was on BBC2(not BBC1) '9PM last night. I missed it, too! (watching another program at the time, and my DVR/VCR is in need of TLC!)

Re: Vintage Radios, TVs etc in films and on TV (not anachronisms)
 

Google concurs. Title updated.

Re: Vintage Radios, TVs etc in films and on TV (not anachronisms)
 

Oh! That explains it!
I really MUST get BBC2!

Re: Vintage Radios, TVs etc in films and on TV (not anachronisms)
 

At about 12 minutes into 'Summer of Rockets' Pt3, we see a RACAL RA17 and a Marconi TF995 (I think) on the racks.

Re: Vintage Radios, TVs etc in films and on TV (not anachronisms)
 

That may be a Solartron regulated PSU on the shelf above the RA17

David

Re: Vintage Radios, TVs etc in films and on TV (not anachronisms)
 

I started a Summer of Rockets thread on 2/6/19 just to ID a couple of items in P1 and recommend the drama itself. I also wasn't really looking for period mistakes or anachronisms! It's a great series like, for example, "Shooting The Past" [1999] also by Poliakoff . That doesn't feature electronics but it is entirely vintage/archive focused.

Dave W

Re: Vintage Radios, TVs etc in films and on TV (not anachronisms)
 

I don't want to start knocking "summer of rockets" as it is excellent and the period equipment is very well thought out but I was puzzled why only one wall of the assembly floor has dragons teeth sound proofing as used in anechoic rooms, the other end of the room is the equipment rack in the posted image with glass windows behind.

Peter

Re: Vintage Radios, TVs etc in films and on TV (not anachronisms)
 

Dragon's teeth pyramids of electromagnetic absorber are used in RF test rooms. It looks just like acoustic absorber. A single wall might be of use for testing signals from/to directional antennae like dishes and horns.

David

Re: Vintage Radios, TVs etc in films and on TV (not anachronisms)
 

Does anyone recognise the 1930s radio which appears in the 1956 Film "Together"

Re: Vintage Radios, TVs etc in films and on TV (not anachronisms)
 

https://www.radiomuseum.org/r/ultra_tiger_2.html

?

Lawrence.

Re: Vintage Radios, TVs etc in films and on TV (not anachronisms)
 

That's the one. Many thanks, Lawrence.

P

Re: Technology related anachronisms on TV and in films etc.
 

Watching "Yes Minister" (the badger one) and Mr Hacker has a Hacker Sovereign in the kitchen. Rather appropriate.

Re: Vintage Radios, TVs etc in films and on TV (not anachronisms)
 

Just sat down in front of the telly with a late lunch

"A Cry from the Streets" is nearly finished on Talking Pictures.

Max Bygraves in his TV/Radio repair workshop.

SR

Re: Vintage Radios, TVs etc in films and on TV (not anachronisms)
 

I saw that today too. Bush TV boxes, several radios and electric fires, and a scene where a lady is using an electric iron plugged into the light socket.