Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Dan Robinson, who writes:
Netflix has released The Club, a historical drama from Turkey, and the opening scene shows a classic old radio. Can anyone identify it?
Here’s another:
Update: and one more!
Please comment if you can ID these! Thanks, Dan!
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!
Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Dan Robinson, who writes:
Who can identify the classic Hallicrafters in the 1960s show Sky King?
Thanks, Dan! Readers: if you know the answer, please comment!
Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Dan Robinson, who writes:
In these screen grabs from Spy Ops, an Afghan military leader is shown using an ICOM HT as part of post 9/11 operations against Taliban forces.
Thanks for sharing this, Dan! One can almost read the model number on the HT.
Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Dan Robinson, who writes:
From the 1965 classic In Harm’s Way about the U.S. Navy after the Pearl Harbor attack. In this scene, Patricia Neal is listening to a Tokyo Rose broadcast, and speaking to John Wayne. Neal asks Wayne “why can’t they jam that broadcast?” Can anyone identify the beautiful rig she’s listening to?
Other noteworthy actors in this great movie: Carroll O’Connor, Burgess Meredith, Kirk Douglas, Slim Pickens, Paula Prentiss, Henry Fonda, Larry Hagman, George Kennedy, Christopher George.
Here are two other receivers shown in same movie:
If you can identify the radios above, please comment!
Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Dan Robinson, who shares the following photos he snapped at the Berryville Hamfest this past weekend:
Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Dan Robinson, who writes:
Two of the best foreign shows on Netflix are Wrong Side of the Tracks, produced in Spain, and The Beauty Queen of Jerusalem, from Israel.
Classic antique radios feature in both.
In Beauty Queen of Jerusalem, a wonderful old tube set appears in a scene set in a shop in old Jerusalem (the left of the shopkeeper).
Someone in Spain must be in love with old classic radios because we see a number of them in different scenes — primarily on a shelf in the shop of one of the main characters, along with a few portable radios. The large radio could be Grundig or any one of a number of other European sets — perhaps SWLing experts can provide the answer.
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Can you ID some of these radios? Please comment!