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Old 09-18-2007, 10:34 PM
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Smile Boatanchor tube radio set in movie "Forbidden Planet"
From the 50's sci fi movie "forbidden Planet", a scene showing some futuristic equipment on a table. Note the two pieces of equipment with what looks like tubes inside, one of which looks a lot like a military style tube radio transmitter!
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Old 09-19-2007, 01:20 AM
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I don't know about the boatanchor, but the tube that man is pointing at looks like a klystron tube capable of short-circuiting the continuum for about 5 to 6 parsecs. if you could find some shielding.
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Old 09-19-2007, 01:37 AM
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Man I love that movie!
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Old 09-19-2007, 02:17 AM
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Did Leslie Nielsen make any more serious films after this one?
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Old 09-20-2007, 01:07 PM
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Migawd, they all look like Rimmer!
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Old 09-20-2007, 02:22 PM
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A classic film that showed just how high you could drive the power meters on an ancient Krell amp...

Dr. Morbius discovers the dangers of turning up the volume past 3 o'clock while wearing earbuds...
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Old 09-20-2007, 04:03 PM
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A classic film that showed just how high you could drive the power meters on a Krell amp...
Do you think Krell Audio got their name from the Krell people in "Forbidden Planet"?
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Old 09-20-2007, 02:27 PM
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Ann Francis was a real Hotty
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Old 09-20-2007, 02:52 PM
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Looks like they had Dish Network back then too.

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Looks like they had Dish Network back then too.

I see London, I see France............
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I see London, I see France............
Well at least in 1956 they wore them.
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The thing off to the far right looks like an "excited" R2D2.
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Old 09-20-2007, 03:00 PM
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Hit's a Hydrostatic Gonkulator ! Seriously, I think the item on the table w/the guy's arm resting on it is some sort of amplifier or maybe a transmitter...Or who knows ? EVERYTHING back then was Tooob-powered, it could be a counter for widgets on some assy line they "borrowed" for the film...The oscilloscope looking doohickeys are more than likely just props. The thing on the table bears a FAINT resemblance to a Racal RA-17 reciever, but those things were real Hot Shit then, I doubt if the British Military would have let one go to be in an American sci-fi flick...Similarly, at that time R-390As were brand-new, still classified, NO WAY in hell the Signal Corps would have let one of them out...Besides, I KNOW what an R-390A looks like...An' that ain't no R-390A...
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