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Movie Scopes (and other T&M-Props a little bit "out of place" :) )

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Bassman59:
For some reason, every laboratory scene, no matter what type of lab, has an oscilloscope displaying Lissajous figures on it. Sometimes there are cables connected to the 'scope's inputs ...

PA0PBZ:

--- Quote from: tautech on March 14, 2018, 06:42:49 am ---Air Crash Disasters....or one something similar.

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Air Crash Investigation? The same guys that always wave around a reel of tape when investigating the black box  :palm:

Cyberdragon:
Whenever there's some sort of wormhole involved in a sci-fi, there's often what looks like a Smith chart on a screen somewhere. ::)

vk6zgo:
I remember years ago, when some character in "Days of our lives" was in dire health straits.
The "heart monitor" was an old  Tektronix 545B apparently stolen from the Network techs.

On another occasion, on "Doctor Who" the Doctor was fiddling with this very "high tech" looking cylindrical device with controls sticking out of every part of it.
Many years later, I saw the very same type of device sitting on a shelf in TVW's Camera maintenance area.
Apparently Philips supplied this device which was never used.

The "Beeb" obviously found a better use for it.

Not quite the same thing, but related:-
In the old "Battlestar Galactica", one episode had two of the main characters apparently on "present day" Earth.

They were equipped with motorcycles which were "supposed to blend in", with the " in joke" being that they looked too spectacular & futuristic to do so.

In fact, they looked positively "dowdy" compared to the then current Suzuki Katana.

Harb:
All the TV News crew gear that was in the Movie "The Nugget" was mine.....it was the scene where all the news crews went to his house after finding the big nugget.......it was all old stuff out of my retired gear warehouse.....even got in the credits lol...
I also have a bit of the gear used in the (Actual) Apollo 11 mission......Monitors and tech gear etc etc.

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