Old radio transmitters were and still are very impressive looking and of the era that you are speaking, they may have been one of the most impressive of electronic gadgetry that the producers had ever seen. I'm sure that most of them had visited radio stations of the era and for one reason or another and had memories of the big transmitter. They may have done a mockup using the transmitter as an image of what they believed would be an impressive contraption that would be used for the purpose of powering and controlling teleportation. I would think they would not want to move something as heavy as a real transmitter around but who knows about those people.
Interesting Subject! John, WA5BXO -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Donald Chester Sent: Saturday, December 07, 2002 2:51 PM To: amradio@mailman.qth.net Subject: Re: [AMRadio] Sci Fi Boatanchors A couple of years ago I visited a restaurant in a nearby town, that specialises in '50 nastalgia, with Elvis on the jukebox, Ike campaign posters, and waitresses dressed 50's style. They had some old movie posters on the wall, the promos you may remember with still frames that the cinema would post outside while a film was showing to attract interest in passers-by. I happened to notice one of the sci-fi film "The Fly". I recall seeing the film while in high school. It was about a scientist who was working on a teleportation device, and when a fly accidentally was trapped in the chamber with him, he came out the remote unit part fly, part man. The fly came out part human. I don't recall how it ended, but the story was about him trying to catch the fly unharmed so they both could be teleported once again in the machine in hopes that they would emerge reconstructed in proper form. The setting was somewhere in Canada. When I looked closely at one of the posters, I noticed that the large gizmo in the lab that covered half the wall was actually an early 30's transmitter, propably some ham's homebrew kilowatt, or maybe an old "composite" broadcast transmitter. I could recognise tuning dials, meters with little metal nameplates, and numerous control knobs and switches. The black (probably wrinkle) cabinet looked to be at about 6 ft. tall and 4-5' wide. The transmitter was correct in too many details as a radio transmittet to have been a hollywood mockup prepared just for the film. I was almost drooling at the sight of that rig, and thinking that it probably ended up at the dump after the film shooting was completed. Don K4KYV _________________________________________________________________ The new MSN 8: advanced junk mail protection and 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail _______________________________________________ AMRadio mailing list AMRadio@mailman.qth.net http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio
