Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Adam Sampson, who writes:
One for your “radios in movies” collection: in “Johnny Mnemonic” (1995),
there’s a Racal RA17 in one of the racks in the Lo-Teks’ headquarters.There’s also a Rohde and Schwarz SMDF/SMDA RF signal generator in the
next rack which plays a pivotal role in the final scene…
Great catch, Adam! Thank you for sharing!
I’ll add this post to our archive of radios in film.
Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Andrew Webber, who writes:
Does anyone know what kind of shortwave this is that appears in this episode of The Andy Griffith Show from the Sixth Season entitled “The Gypsies’. The Gypsies put a curse on the town of Mayberry and use the radio to magically predict rain within 72 hours by listening to weather reports from Greenland. The final scene is hilarious when Andy and Goober are listening to the radio and Andy takes the back cover off of the radio, only to discover the radio is just an empty case.
Thanks for sharing, Andrew. Can anyone ID this radio? Please comment!
Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Dan Robinson, who writes:
Did anyone ever notice this [in The Shape of Water]?
I have not seen the film yet, but how could we miss that classic Cold War rig?! Very cool–thanks for sharing, Dan!
I’ll add this post to our archive of radios in film.
Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Emilio Ruiz, who writes:
I [note you] have published movies scenes with radios and I remember one of my favorite movies about nature, science, silence, wolves and Inuit culture called “Never Cry Wolf” I’m sharing with you and all readers of SWLing Post blog a radio (I don’t know what brand is, I think is military radio) appear in Never Cry Wolf movie.
I love this scene because the heterodyne sound is a particular sound that drives us crazy to everyone who loves radio!! jaja 😛
The video was extracted from the original Beta format movie, sorry for
the quality.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhz0kzRaWlY
Thank you for sharing, Emilio!
That heterodyne sound leads me to believe they obtained it using a regenerative receiver. I’ve heard that squeal so many times tuning regen receivers!
I’ll add this post to our ever growing archive of radios in film!
Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Ron Chester (W6AZ), who notes that the new Godzilla film contains a number of boat anchors.
What I think is so funny is how they’ve altered the logging/fine tune dial of the Hammarlund SP-600 to look like signal strength meter! For someone who has owned an SP-600, this is a little strange to say the least!
https://youtu.be/DXrQiN0ei5s
Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Cap Tux, who spotted two ham radio rigs in IO. Cap notes:
ICOM IC-740, Yaesu FT-901DM and Shortwave make an appearance in Netflix Sci-Fi film IO:
Mentions “transmitting on frequency 9043kHz and listening on frequency 9560kHz daily, that’s the 31m band”.
Thanks for sharing, Cap! I’ll add this post to our ever growing archive of radios in film!
Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Balázs Kovács, who shares the following radio sightings and notes:
The Priest’s rig from the last episode of “The Walking Dead“
A Yaesu in “Jurassic World – Fallen Kingdom“
Some emergency/weather radios in the “The Darkest Minds“
The Last Ship S05E01
After a cyber attack a backup comm solution for the US Navy.
Night of the Living Dead (1968/1990)
In the original a radio broadcast was the first information source, in the remake only a small one was used at the end.
Hunt for the Wilderpeople (2016)
In a remote shack.
+1: The “Álmodozások kora” (Age of Illusions (US) / The Age of Daydreaming (Int)) was the first (Hungarian) feature film of the director István Szabó (winner of an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1981 (Mephisto), English language films: Meeting Venus (1991), Sunshine (1999), Taking Sides (2001), the Oscar nominated Being Julia (2004) and The Door (2012)) in 1965 about a group of young electrical engineers. Two scenes from it about the radios, unfortunately I found the hungarian speaking version only online, but I think maybe it can be still interesting: https://ok.ru/video/
228250552961
- 33:58-35: A custom rig receiving 4 european stations (Paris, London, Rome, Prague) on different speakers at the same time
- 1:05:43-1:07:20: “How radio works” animation
- (and there was a short scene also where they talk about the The Pioneer Railway and how they learned the morse code there)
I found another (splited) version of the movie now with english subtitles, the new links and timings:
https://ok.ru/video/904027376280
33:58-35:28: A custom rig receiving 4 European stations (Paris, London, Rome, Prague) on different speakers at the same timehttps://ok.ru/video/904028097176
20:00-21:39 “How radio works” animationThe same actor (András Bálint) 13 years later have a short ham radio scene (new year greetings in english) in another movie (BUÉK, 1978). I checked the callsign from the wall (HA5FA) and probably it was already a real one, belongs to Jen? Matzon, active member of the radio amateur community (DXCC Honor Roll, etc.) now a Silent Key.
Wow! Many thanks for sharing all of these radio spots, Balazs! Funny thing is I remember so well those shots from Night of the Living Dead even though I likely watched it 40 years ago! I guess I never forget a Zenith!
Of course, I’ll add this post to our ever growing archive of radios in film!
