{"id":44017,"date":"2020-06-24T08:11:24","date_gmt":"2020-06-24T12:11:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=44017"},"modified":"2020-06-24T08:12:55","modified_gmt":"2020-06-24T12:12:55","slug":"help-ed-identify-this-mystery-radio-in-the-last-man-on-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/help-ed-identify-this-mystery-radio-in-the-last-man-on-earth\/","title":{"rendered":"Help Ed identify this mystery radio in “The Last Man on Earth”"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Many thanks to SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, Ed, who writes:<\/p>\n

Recently I’ve been watching some pandemic-themed movies and found “The Last Man on Earth”, a pretty good 1964 post-apocalyptic science fiction horror film (which was remade in 1971 and 2007 with different titles.) In this film, the main character (well played by Vincent
\nPrice) uses an HF transceiver in a fruitless effort to find other survivors of a global plague. It was shot in Italy, and the transceiver doesn’t look like any American radio I’ve ever seen. Perhaps some of your SWLing Post readers can identify it?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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BTW: SWLing Post readers might also be interested in knowing this film can be downloaded for free from The Internet Archive.\u00a0 https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/lastmanonearth-1964<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

What do you say, SWLing Post<\/em> Community? Is this radio a fabricated stage prop, or a real model?\u00a0 Please comment!<\/a><\/p>\n

In the meantime, I\u2019ll add this post to our ever growing archive of radios in film!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Ed, who writes: Recently I’ve been watching some pandemic-themed movies and found “The Last Man on Earth”, a pretty good 1964 post-apocalyptic science fiction horror film (which was remade in 1971 and 2007 with different titles.) In this film, the main character (well played by Vincent Price) uses an […]<\/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":[508,3,305,43,304,4796],"tags":[7861,2055,5506,8617],"class_list":["post-44017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-2","category-news","category-nostalgia","category-shortwave-radio","category-videos","category-vintage-radio","tag-movies","tag-mystery-radio","tag-radios-in-movies","tag-the-last-man-on-earth"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-brX","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":56627,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/can-you-identify-the-radio-bruce-spotted-in-the-new-silo-series\/","url_meta":{"origin":44017,"position":0},"title":"Can you identify the radio Bruce spotted in the new SILO series?","author":"Thomas","date":"May 17, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Bruce, who writes: Hi Thomas, Here's a screenshot (below) of a transceiver on a new sci-fi series \"Silo\". 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