[78-L] The new Sherlock Holmes film has an Improved Gramophone...

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Haven't seen it yet. What to look for?

joe salerno


On 12/25/2011 10:56 PM, David Lennick wrote:
> Anyone catch a couple of goofs in "The Artist" yet (fabulous movie otherwise)?
>
> dl
>
> On 12/25/2011 11:52 PM, Michael Shoshani wrote:
>> My family and I went to see the new Sherlock Holmes film today. It had
>> quite a few ...um, shall we say, endearing anachronisms. However, the
>> one that got my full attention was a Berliner Improved Gramophone.
>>
>> Either it's authentic or a damn good replica. Correct wide flat
>> traveling arm, correct leather coupling between the sound box and the
>> brass horn, and even the correct Clark-Johnson sound box.  In fact, the
>> only thing wrong with this Berliner Improved Gramophone was that it
>> somehow made its way to London in 1891, which is where and when the film
>> is set.  :) (Johnson would not deliver his machine to Berliner until
>> 1896, and England really didn't get them until, I believe, 1898.)
>>
>> MS
>>
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