Movie clip - olde tyme radio Station/Tower

[Superhet66]

I get a real kick out of this movie and the period stuff. I have this movie on in the backround all the time.

A couple period AM broadcast references in this clip at 3:13 & 6:53 or just watch the full clip.

"We ain't one at a timin' it here...we're MASS communicating."

I like how the station is in the middle of nowhere and the call sign WEZY suggests "WHEEZY".


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLntqugC_EE&feature=related

[WQ9E]

One of my favorite of the more recent movies.  The link Don just posted in the "rough day" thread fits in very well with the musical style of "wheezy" radio.

[Superhet66]

the one liners in this movie are endless.....

"Shake a leg junior. Thank God your mammy died at birth. If she'd a seen ya' she'd a died of shame"

The band of ass kissers that follow the Governor around are great.

[k4kyv]

There are a lot of authentic looking old time radio images in The Changeling directed by Clint Eastwood and starring Angelina Jolie.  The filmakers were very careful to make everything as historcally accurate to the 1928-1933 period in L.A. as possible, from buildings, automobiles, clothing styles to residential housing  interiors.

The main screw-up I noticed was the depiction of the transmitter at a broadcast station.  It was a piece of rack-and-panel equipment (not necessarily a radio transmitter).  The problem is that it had rectangular bakelite panel meters, which didn't appear until sometime around 1937 or later.  Meters of the '28-'33 period were nearly always round or fan shaped, and usually had metal cases instead of bakelite.

This is something that probably very few people noticed, but to anyone familiar with historical radio equipment, the error stood out like a sore thumb.

[Steve - WB3HUZ]

Clooney lip-syncs Dan Tyminski pretty well. Saw Tyminski back in the early 90's before he was famous when he was singing with Lonesome River Band at the Irish Pizza Pub in Laurel, MD.


Is you is or is you aint' my constituents?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3eTSbC3neA&feature=related

[Bill, KD0HG]

That is one terrific movie and good fun. The soundtrack is a classic.