{"id":25176,"date":"2017-04-14T07:00:26","date_gmt":"2017-04-14T11:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=25176"},"modified":"2017-04-12T07:08:04","modified_gmt":"2017-04-12T11:08:04","slug":"one-vintage-radio-in-two-classic-films","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/one-vintage-radio-in-two-classic-films\/","title":{"rendered":"One vintage radio in two classic films"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/SX-99-Dial.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-9503\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/SX-99-Dial-1024x192.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"117\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/SX-99-Dial-1024x192.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/SX-99-Dial-300x56.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/SX-99-Dial-100x18.jpg 100w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/SX-99-Dial.jpg 1544w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Many thanks to <em>SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, Dan Hawkins, who writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This evening I watched the excellent <strong>Undercover: How to Operate Behind Enemy Lines<\/strong> on Netflix streaming. This is a 1943 training film for Office of Strategic Services personnel learning how be secret agents. The film was directed by the legendary John Ford who also took an acting role in the film. In this scene, Al is receiving his forged papers from an OSS agent before leaving for Germany. A radio may seen on a shelf in the background.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/hallicrafters-undercover-c.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-25177\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/hallicrafters-undercover-c-1024x765.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"467\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/hallicrafters-undercover-c-1024x765.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/hallicrafters-undercover-c-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/hallicrafters-undercover-c-768x574.jpg 768w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/hallicrafters-undercover-c-624x466.jpg 624w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/hallicrafters-undercover-c.jpg 1283w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Undercover: How to Operate Behind Enemy Lines<\/strong> is also available on YouTube:<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/elxOHvowy-c?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=elxOHvowy-c\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to view on YouTube.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The next film is much better known. The same model radio makes a foreground appearance in <strong>Some Like it Hot<\/strong>. Osgood Fielding III has one of these on his yacht.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/hot-hallicrafters-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-25178\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/hot-hallicrafters-1-1024x627.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"383\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/hot-hallicrafters-1-1024x627.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/hot-hallicrafters-1-300x184.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/hot-hallicrafters-1-768x470.jpg 768w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/hot-hallicrafters-1-624x382.jpg 624w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/hot-hallicrafters-1.jpg 1419w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Maybe Osgood is laughing because the film takes place in 1929 and the company that made the radio was founded several years later.<\/p>\n<p>I won\u2019t spoil the secret of this radio\u2019s maker and model. It will probably not take long for SWLing Post readers to come up with an answer.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Post<\/em> readers: are you up for the challenge? \ud83d\ude42 What model of\u00a0radio do we see here? I&#8217;ll keep quiet, because it&#8217;s one of my favorite manufacturers.<\/p>\n<p>And, Dan, many thanks. I really do owe you one because I was not familiar with\u00a0<strong>Undercover: How to Operate Behind Enemy Lines. <\/strong>I can&#8217;t believe there was a WWII era Ford film I had missed. I, too, have Netflix but the YouTube copy you suggested is actually a better restored version in terms of audio. \u00a0Thanks again!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Dan Hawkins, who writes: This evening I watched the excellent Undercover: How to Operate Behind Enemy Lines on Netflix streaming. This is a 1943 training film for Office of Strategic Services personnel learning how be secret agents. The film was directed by the legendary John Ford who also took [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[508,3,305,43,4796],"tags":[5259,5506,5235,6117,6116,681],"class_list":["post-25176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-2","category-news","category-nostalgia","category-shortwave-radio","category-vintage-radio","tag-daniel-hawkins","tag-radios-in-movies","tag-shortwave-film","tag-some-like-it-hot","tag-undercover-how-to-operate-behind-enemy-lines","tag-vintage-radio"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-6y4","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":30403,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/dan-spots-shortwave-radios-in-the-film-operation-chromite\/","url_meta":{"origin":25176,"position":0},"title":"Dan spots shortwave radios in the film &#8220;Operation Chromite&#8221;","author":"Thomas","date":"January 22, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Dan Hawkins, who writes: Operation Chromite (2016) is a South Korean film about the invasion of Inchon by UN forces in September, 1950. 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I'm a huge fan of Hallicrafters radios--especially\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;News&quot;","block_context":{"text":"News","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/news\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Hallicrafters-S-39-1024x768.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Hallicrafters-S-39-1024x768.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Hallicrafters-S-39-1024x768.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":31342,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/the-shape-of-water-features-a-benchmark-cold-war-receiver\/","url_meta":{"origin":25176,"position":3},"title":"&#8220;The Shape of Water&#8221; features a benchmark Cold War receiver","author":"Thomas","date":"March 26, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Dan Hawkins, who writes: The Academy Award for Best Picture of 2018 goes to Guillermo de Toro\u2019s \u201cThe Shape of Water.\u201d This celebrated shortwave radio appears several times in the move as a prop for the Cold War-era control room of Richard Strickland (played\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Boat Anchors&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Boat Anchors","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/boat-anchors-2\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/shapewat-1-1024x557.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/shapewat-1-1024x557.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/shapewat-1-1024x557.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":20010,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/video-dan-listens-to-rnzis-sunday-night-with-grant-walker-on-a-hammarlund-sp-600\/","url_meta":{"origin":25176,"position":4},"title":"Video: Dan listens to RNZI&#8217;s Sunday Night with Grant Walker on a Hammarlund SP-600","author":"Thomas","date":"July 21, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor,\u00a0Daniel Hawkins, who writes: One of my favorite Radio New Zealand International programs is Sunday Night with Grant Walker. 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