{"id":31342,"date":"2018-03-26T06:00:48","date_gmt":"2018-03-26T10:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=31342"},"modified":"2018-03-26T06:03:42","modified_gmt":"2018-03-26T10:03:42","slug":"the-shape-of-water-features-a-benchmark-cold-war-receiver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/the-shape-of-water-features-a-benchmark-cold-war-receiver\/","title":{"rendered":"“The Shape of Water” features a benchmark Cold War receiver"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Many thanks to SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, Dan Hawkins, who writes:<\/p>\n

The Academy Award for Best Picture of 2018 goes to Guillermo de Toro\u2019s \u201cThe Shape of Water.<\/a>\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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This celebrated shortwave radio appears several times in the move as a prop for the Cold War-era control room of Richard Strickland (played by Michael Shannon).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Oh what a celebrated shortwave radio indeed! How could it be a Cold War without this benchmark boat anchor?!? Thanks for this fantastic addition to\u00a0to\u00a0our growing archive of radios in film<\/a>, Dan!<\/p>\n

Post<\/em> readers:<\/strong> Anyone recognize or–better yet–own this amazing machine? Please comment!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 by Michael Shannon). Oh what […]<\/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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1271,3,43,4796],"tags":[5115,4344,5506,6919],"class_list":["post-31342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boat-anchors-2","category-news","category-shortwave-radio","category-vintage-radio","tag-danh","tag-hammarlund-sp-600","tag-radios-in-movies","tag-the-shape-of-water"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-89w","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":17355,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/video-this-is-radio-free-europe-1964\/","url_meta":{"origin":31342,"position":0},"title":"Video: This Is Radio Free Europe (1964)","author":"Thomas","date":"February 16, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"If you're in the mood for a little Cold War era nostalgia, check out this video produced by Radio Free Europe in 1964. 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