"Mad Men" props to be auctioned off. TV featured

[wa2ise]

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2...dayspaper&_r=0

[Phil Nelson]

Having purchased props (and sold a few) in the past, I wouldn't count on anything being more than a shell. Set designers care about outer appearance, period, and when a TV is portrayed as playing, the image is easily faked.

TVs appeared fairly often in that show. I wonder what happened to the other prop sets?

Pet Peeve: as much as I loved "Mad Men,' it invariably showed TVs playing with incessant and exaggerated problems -- jumping vertical or horizontal, etc., or reception suddenly crapping out for no reason. Yes, TV reception wasn't ideal back in the day, but it sure wasn't THAT bad!

Phil Nelson
Phil's Old Radios
http://antiqueradio.org/index.html

[andy]

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[Eric H]

When I go to the site of the Auction House I don't see any TV's listed.

http://madmen-auction.screenbid.com/...g/id/60?page=1

Maybe it was, or will be sold in another auction?

Error alert, the article calls it a "13-channel — plus UHF" TV, it is of course a 12 channel set because it doesn't have channel 1. It does appear to have a UHF tuner.

I don't remember where that specific set was used but I do remember this 1959-60'ish GE in her apartment. This is the one I would want.

[matt99]

there was that scene in one of the recent X-men movies where quicksilver had a couple of stolen zenith cromacolor TVs stashed at his house. It was either first class or days of future past, can't remember now. Hope they auction those off someday (and me or someone here buys them).

Sorry this is a little bit off topic.

[MIPS]

For my money I want that replica of the IBM System/360.

[Zenith6S321]

I got one of these kits for the first computer I used in high school, over a 110 baud modem to the local college. Nothing more impressive than programming in BASIC on a state-of-the art (for 1967) ASR-33 storing your program on punched paper tape. Here is a link to a desktop PDP-8 recreation:

http://obsolescence.wix.com/obsolescence#!pidp-8/cbie

Dave

[cwmoser]

Originally Posted by Zenith6S321

I got one of these kits for the first computer I used in high school, over a 110 baud modem to the local college. Nothing more impressive than programming in BASIC on a state-of-the art (for 1967) ASR-33 storing your program on punched paper tape. Here is a link to a desktop PDP-8 recreation:

http://obsolescence.wix.com/obsolescence#!pidp-8/cbie

Dave

Ditto. My first PC was one I make myself from a Mos Technology 6502 uP.
Paper tape reader, Tom Pitmans Tiny Basic, and of course programming
Assembly by translating the hex codes manually and entering them one
at a time. I can't remember how many times I entered all 2,000
opcodes for Tiny Basic - from a few sheets of hex codes.
But this was the 1970's.
Ahhh, those were some memorable times.

[fsjonsey]

Originally Posted by Eric H

When I go to the site of the Auction House I don't see any TV's listed.

http://madmen-auction.screenbid.com/...g/id/60?page=1

Maybe it was, or will be sold in another auction?

Error alert, the article calls it a "13-channel — plus UHF" TV, it is of course a 12 channel set because it doesn't have channel 1. It does appear to have a UHF tuner.

I don't remember where that specific set was used but I do remember this 1959-60'ish GE in her apartment. This is the one I would want.

Peggy had the set shown in the OP in the seedy upper west side apartment she shared with her hippy boyfriend Abe in season five and six. It was actually replaced with an older set in season 7.

I wish that the RCA roundie Combo that was in Don's gloomy divorcee apartment in season 4 was up for sale...

I wonder if Shango066 on youtube rented any sets to Mad Men. He's in LA and rents a lot of non-restorable sets out as props.

[wa2ise]

Originally Posted by Phil Nelson

Having purchased props (and sold a few) in the past, I wouldn't count on anything being more than a shell. Set designers care about outer appearance, period, and when a TV is portrayed as playing, the image is easily faked.

They might paint the CRT screen that blue color used by TV stations to paint the background behind the weatherman in the weather report. So the fake TV video can be chroma keyed in. I think they can do similar when they use film.