Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Dan Robinson, who writes:
At about the 15 minute mark in the classic movie, Twelve O’Clock High, about B-17 bomber groups in England during WWII, this scene shows a commander and his assistant listening to Lord Haw Haw from Nazi Germany on a small console radio. Anyone recognize it?
Brigadier General Frank Savage is played by Gregory Peck, his second-in-command by Hugh Marlowe, and Robert Patten and Dean Jagger also star.
If you can ID this radio model, please comment!
Yeah the radio at the left. There’s still another one in the movie, and I’ve sent a photo into Tom.
If you go to the movie on Youtube, at the 15:07 mark, and go to full screen, you can get a much better picture. Title… TWELVE O’CLOCK HIGH” Movie (1949) Starting: Gregory Peck & Hugh Marlowe
One iof my favourite films…
The item on the left hand side has more than a passing similarity to a 1947 Trav-ler Radio 5208-A 3 Way Power Portable
One is for sale on ebay at item number 175911887518
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The item on the desk does look like the Thomas Collectors Edition radio Paul links to, it also looks like some of the early post-war Pye radios.
Pye was an early Cambridge, England electronics company.
Speaking of radios in film
By the way the handheld two way radios in Battle Star Galactica as used by Commander Adama et al are Motorola, for a few frames in one episode one can see the Motorola ‘M’ logo and the ‘Motorola’ brand name – somewhere I have a screenshot of that.
I missed that radio on the left also!
I also think it’s an Intercom. Maybe the Webster Electric Teletalk 212:
https://www.radiomuseum.org/r/webster_el_teletalk_212_m.html
https://www.radiomuseum.org/r/webster_el_teletalk_212_s.html
I agree that it’s a great movie.
73
Bill WD9EQD
Smithville, NJ
I have to admit I totally missed he radio to the left. Which I’m sure is what the Dan was referring to. I have no idea what radio that is. But at least we now know the model of the intercom on the desk.
Bill WD9EQD
Smithville, NJ
I think you’re correct, multi-station intercom.
Bob Schweikert/N4NMK
Harrington, DE
I’m not sure, because it is hard to see the face, but I’m going with a 1939 Westinghouse 555. Just a dartboard guess because it is hard to see.
I agree that it looks like an intercom.
Oh sorry. I didn’t even notice the dark radio on the left. I only saw the intercom on the desk!
I think it is just an intercom.
Maybe a Philco 40-120? Seems to cover MW and 160m, that could be correct.
Could it be this? Thomas Collector’s Edition Radio model 1949,
https://www.ebay.com/itm/364426897926
Great ww2 movie. The opening minutes with Dean Jagger are unforgettable. Sorry I don’t recognize the radio.