[78-L] The Wrong Gramophone.

[David Lennick]

"Cat Ballou" takes place in 1894 and musical entertainment in the sporting 
house comes from a nice looking morning glory horn. But at least it's playing a 
cylinder.

"The Last Picture Show", in 1952, has an early RCA 45 player at the pool party, 
playing "The Thing", and clearly shows a light-colored label on the disc that's 
spinning, not the black RCA Victor label.

Blah blah blah....

dl

Michael Shoshani wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-04-14 at 09:43 +0100, Spats wrote:
> 
>> However, today, I watched a BBC feature called The Lost Prince, set 
>> in 1914. As usual, the costumes were meticulously put together. 
>> HOWEVER, a horn gramophone is given as a present in one scene and it 
>> only takes the merest glance and any of us would recognize a modern 
>> cheap reproduction of the type that is made in India these days. To 
>> compound this oversight, when the prince takes out a record to play 
>> on it, it is clearly a double sided electric-era Odeon! This is a 
>> common oversight. Many is the time on TV that they take a red-label 
>> HMV record, put it on the turntable and out of the TV speaker 
>> emanates some dance band recording! A miracle, indeed!
> 
> The motion picture "From Hell" revolves around a clairvoyant police
> officer who tries to use his gifts to intercept Jack The Ripper. The
> film takes place in 1888. In one scene, Sir Ian Holm is seen listening
> to a wax cylinder talking machine with a large horn, despite the fact
> that no such talking machine existed. The Graphopohone, and Edison's
> Improved Phonograph (which would not have been in England then anyway),
> were still played only through ear tubes.
>