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Old 17th Nov 2019, 10:05 pm   #241
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I was always fascinated with that machine hidden in his desk, and Herbert Lom's character was Dr Corder, an association of words I've never forgotten.
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Old 18th Nov 2019, 5:37 am   #242
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I spotted this radio in the 1944 film The Halfway House. Does anyone recognise the model?
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Old 1st Jan 2020, 2:13 am   #243
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A perennial christmas favourite, in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971), the Bucket household sports a rare 1935 Loewe-Opta FE-B. Nice to see a real object in a film full of prop machines!
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Old 2nd Jan 2020, 12:13 am   #244
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I've seen it suggested that this set had a modern monitor stuck inside it, but it's still impressive that they found such an old set.
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Old 25th Jan 2020, 5:42 am   #245
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Spotted on talking pictures tv in film the way ahead a 1944 war film starring amongst others David Niven,Stanley Holloway,William Hartnell and many others,also 1 hour 28 minutes in a large Philips radio not sure what model,looks like one of the superinductance ones.I didnt get a pic off the tv but the film is on youtube,dont know if this has been spotted before. Graham.
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Old 5th Feb 2020, 12:09 am   #246
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Probably the wrong thread, but did anybody notice the BBC news footage of Claire O'Neal on the Today programme? There she is, speaking into a 4038 ribbon on an old BBC table stand with a pop shield. Nothing wrong with that, quite the reverse, but I thought domestic radio had abandoned the 4038 long since. Full marks to some SM for using appropriate technology.
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Old 11th Feb 2020, 5:14 pm   #247
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In the latest TV series of Endeavour I noted he had a different record player, can any one identify it?
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Old 11th Feb 2020, 6:06 pm   #248
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I have to admit that I don't often take in what make or model of TV, Radio, or what have you is featured in a TV program or film I'm watching. Sometimes, if it's the same as or similar to, anything I used to own, I may do so, but not otherwise.
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Old 11th Feb 2020, 7:11 pm   #249
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Morse's new record player is a Bush SRP31, thank god! He had a succession of very poor quality machines in the previous series, just as in the original "Morse" he never seemed to have the same transistor on his desk, but had various Fidelity RAD series sets. Funny that, I'd have thought he would have had a Hacker.

I obviously watch far too much tv.

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Old 11th Feb 2020, 9:50 pm   #250
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Indeed a Hacker, some did make their way past the outskirts of Maidenhead (Oxford). Mind you a serious music enthusiast doesn't really care upon what it is played on.
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Default Grundig TK 30

Attached image of a TK 30 captured on my TV a few nights back when it was in the 1959 Norman Wisdom film "Follow a Star".

I have a TK 30 which needs looking at, as soon as I can fit it in.
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Old 12th Feb 2020, 9:37 am   #252
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Indeed a Hacker, some did make their way past the outskirts of Maidenhead (Oxford). Mind you a serious music enthusiast doesn't really care upon what it is played on.
That's right.
We just look at the dots. Sounds perfect every time!
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Old 17th Feb 2020, 10:20 pm   #253
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Default Radios seen on TV for ID

Spotted a couple of radios in 'The Pale Horse' on TV recently, can anyone identify them?
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Old 17th Feb 2020, 10:35 pm   #254
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First one's a Pye Piper

https://www.radiomuseum.org/r/pye_p116up_116.html

and the other's another Pye, their stereo projection record player.

https://www.radiomuseum.org/r/pye_ac...ipho_1005.html

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Old 18th Feb 2020, 11:28 am   #255
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2nd one is the PYE 1005 stereo record player. J.
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Old 18th Feb 2020, 7:21 pm   #256
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Cheers both!
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Old 16th Mar 2020, 2:23 pm   #257
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Default DAC10 on Bargain Hunt (BBC1 TV)

"Expert" said it was 1930's Deco! The punters paid £30 and it sold at auction for £30. Looked a bit mucky.

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Old 16th Mar 2020, 8:49 pm   #258
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It does to my eye have an Art Deco style, it was introduced in 1950, I don’t know the designer but it is was a couple of years later that younger designers started to influence styles.
Not to worry, it’s only a TV show.
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Old 16th Mar 2020, 8:53 pm   #259
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Perhaps not a bad thing to see sets changing hands at sensible prices, regardless of any inaccuracies in the rest of the program?
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Old 16th Mar 2020, 11:00 pm   #260
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A couple of nights ago, the first of the two episodes of "Life on Mars" (set in 1973) showed some remote control TV's . I am not familiar with sets of that era but they looked appropriate.
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