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Telephone Mishaps in the Movies & TV

Started by BDM, September 20, 2009, 11:58:05 AM

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Greg G.

Quote from: AE_collector on March 25, 2012, 05:37:47 PM
I like the topic of errors of all types in movies and TV shows so I knew where to go hunting for this old thread. I still don't find it very easy to locate old topics on the forum though.

Terry

One thing I've learned about searching is make sure you're in the main index page when you search.  For example, if I was in this thread (Telephone mishaps) and went to the Search box at the top to find something about another subject, it's only going to search this thread and won't find it.
The idea that a four-year degree is the only path to worthwhile knowledge is insane.
- Mike Row
e

twocvbloke

Quote from: Brinybay on March 26, 2012, 12:18:10 AMOne thing I've learned about searching is make sure you're in the main index page when you search.  For example, if I was in this thread (Telephone mishaps) and went to the Search box at the top to find something about another subject, it's only going to search this thread and won't find it.

I think that's a quirk of the Simple Machines forum software, the other two main brands, PHPBB (free & open source) and vBulletin (not free and not open source) don't have that, but it doesn't really pose much of an issue as once you get to know it, you know how to work it, bit like the gear stick in a 2CV... :D

AE_Collector

Okay, I'll bite.....what is a 2cv?

Yes I figured out quite awhile ago that you need to be on the home page to search all boards and topics but even knowing that I still frequently have a tough time coming up with what I am looking for. I have started "saving to favorites" quite a few of the topics that I see myself potentially adding to in the future under the link to CRPF in "my favorites". That helps a little bit....ocassionally.

Terry


twocvbloke

Quote from: AE_collector on March 26, 2012, 01:12:46 AM
Okay, I'll bite.....what is a 2cv?

A small french car:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citro%C3%ABn_2CV

Absolutely nothing like a VW Beetle before you say it though!!! :D

AE_Collector

Oh, okay. I've seen those before. Saw one over here in Vancouver quite recently.

So do you have one?

Terry

twocvbloke

Sadly no, being unable to work and living on state benefits means I can just about afford to get a couple of bus rides in a month, let alone buy a decent 2CV, and pay for fuel, insurance, road tax, and the driving lessons and driving licence, so, I'm just a "back seat enthusiast" when it comes to those lovely little cars... :(

Someday though, someday.........

bingster

I thought it meant you had a pair of curriculum vitae, which made absolutely no sense. :)
= DARRIN =



twocvbloke

Quote from: bingster on March 26, 2012, 04:58:20 PM
I thought it meant you had a pair of curriculum vitae, which made absolutely no sense. :)

Or a couple of Constant Velocity joints off an axle... :D

Dialvintage

Saw a pink trimphone in the British TV series Heartbeat which is set in the 1960s- as far as I know trimphones came out in the 1970s.

twocvbloke

The trimphone started appearing in '64, though there were no pink ones, so that was definitely an oversight on the Heartbeat researchers' behalf...

http://www.britishtelephones.com/t722.htm

Wouldn't be the first time that a TV show placed items into eras where they didn't belong... ::)

gpo706

Quote from: Dialvintage on December 20, 2012, 09:20:50 PM
Saw a pink trimphone in the British TV series Heartbeat which is set in the 1960s- as far as I know trimphones came out in the 1970s.

I seen the same repeat today, Trimphones were introduced in 1966 I think, but the pink example, in the pink themed hairdressers salon, wouldn't be an available colour at the time, but the rest of the episode looked fine with "E and F" suffixed motors, being Jan 1967 to July 1967 (E), August 1967 to July 1968 (F).

It even had The Doors on the soundtrack - "Love Her Madly" from 1967 AFAIK.
"now this should take five minutes, where's me screwdriver went now..?"

Dialvintage

Quote from: twocvbloke on December 20, 2012, 09:30:39 PM
The trimphone started appearing in '64, though there were no pink ones, so that was definitely an oversight on the Heartbeat researchers' behalf...

http://www.britishtelephones.com/t722.htm

Wouldn't be the first time that a TV show placed items into eras where they didn't belong... ::)


True- but mostly they get this right- I asked my Mum if it captures the 60s and she said it is quite authentic. I was born in 1968.

Dialvintage

Quote from: gpo706 on December 20, 2012, 09:34:33 PM
Quote from: Dialvintage on December 20, 2012, 09:20:50 PM
Saw a pink trimphone in the British TV series Heartbeat which is set in the 1960s- as far as I know trimphones came out in the 1970s.

I seen the same repeat today, Trimphones were introduced in 1966 I think, but the pink example, in the pink themed hairdressers salon, wouldn't be an available colour at the time, but the rest of the episode looked fine with "E and F" suffixed motors, being Jan 1967 to July 1967 (E), August 1967 to July 1968 (F).

It even had The Doors on the soundtrack - "Love Her Madly" from 1967 AFAIK.

I just love Heartbeat- I watch it on iplayer having my dinner every night! It was actually this show that encouraged me to buy my rotary phone as I love the old bell ring and my modern one was annoying me with its shrill beeping. However as they have a lot of old phones being rang in this series now I am starting to look at the stairs thinking it is my phone ( my stairs are at the end of my lounge and phone is in bedroom) LOL!
PC Walker gave that pink phone a funny look didn't he?

gpo706

#58
Bertie and Elizabeth (2002), drama about King George VI and the Queen Mother, during the war (1940?) a night duty policeman at Buckingham Palace takes an international phone call from the Queen of the Netherlands through a 1960's Dictograph...

(Despite having a green 332 sitting next to it)
"now this should take five minutes, where's me screwdriver went now..?"

George Knighton

Quote from: gpo706 on December 22, 2012, 06:39:07 AM
Bertie and Elizabeth (2002), drama about King George VI and the Queen Mother, during the war (1940?) a night duty policeman at Buckingham Palace takes an international phone call from the Queen of the Netherlands....

She was eating crow when she did it, too.  Queen Wilhelmina arranged for her entire family to escape as German paratroopers were landing in the Netherlands.

There has never been very good feelings between the Royal Family and the modern House of Orange.  It's hard to explain.  Although the British are very democratic themselves, they've never understood this queen-on-bicycle phenomenon, or the tendency for Dutch sovereigns to resign when they've had enough of it.

Most of the Dutch royal family were secreted to the coast inside a bank's armoured deposit truck, and spirited away on HMS Codrington, a small destroyer that the King and Churchill felt was the safest and least conspicuous thing to do.

The King of Denmark, Christian X, refused to leave his country.  Although his tendency toward autocracy made him unpopular during the beginning of his reign, his bravery in staying behind impressed the citizens of Denmark, and his acts of defiance and bravery probably served to save the Danish monarchy into the 21st century.

The King frequently infuriated the Nazis by getting on his horse and just riding through the streets of Copenhagen on it, just sort of "showing the flag" in defiance.  Not allowed any armed guards, his only escort was Danish citizens riding behind him on their bicycles.

He further endeared himself when word got around of his reply to Adolf Hitler's birthday greetings.  I don't remember the King's exact reply to Hitler, but it was something that Hitler interpreted as, "Yeah, whatever, dude."

As furious as Hitler was, he still never dared drag the King of Denmark off his horse.

Royalty can be a very powerful focus for national feeling and in this case, of resistance.
Annoying new poster.