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[RichA]

I watched First Men In The Moon on Tubi the other night and there's a few scenes with brass telescopes in them

 

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There's one in Bedford's house and this one when he enters Cavor's home

 

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Near the end in Bedford's room at a old folks home

 

The film ends with Bedford looking thru his telescope

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It's a Ray Harryhausen film, of whom I've always been a big fan of.

Like the Time Machine, it takes place at the turn of the century and it has the same kind of charm.

My wife had never seen it and enjoyed it quite a lot.

If you've never seen it, I highly recommend it.

 

For a taste of the film, here's the trailer:

https://www.youtube....h?v=0zxAiUQu0v8

Great movie.

[TxStars]

 

C14(?) looking great in Furiosa (2024)

 

 

 

Looks more like a C-8

[davidmcgo]

From the finder brackets and a zoom in on the corrector retainer it actually looks like a repainted DX8

 

Dave

Looks more like a C-8

[Kasmos]

From the finder brackets and a zoom in on the corrector retainer it actually looks like a repainted DX8

 

Dave

That's exactly what it is.

 

It says Criterion on the retaining ring and also note the style of the end of the DEC axis

[ccwemyss]

That's exactly what it is.

 

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It says Criterion on the retaining ring and also note the style of the end of the DEC axis

Well, for once they didn't mess up a perfectly good telescope to make the production designer happy. Probably only because it was cheap. Not because someone said, "If we have to make a scope look old and beat up, let's go find a Dynamax. Nobody will care what we do to it." 

 

Chip W.

[Kefka1138]

Nice! So it's a DX8, very cool. Here's a shot of the rear cell for fun - look at that eye relief!

Edited by Kefka1138, 14 September 2024 - 10:48 AM.

[RichA]

Darrin McGavin in "The Night Stalker."  Scope looks like a conventional 60mm of the time, but the tube appears blue

and it has a long finder on it.

 

[Kasmos]

Darrin McGavin in "The Night Stalker."  Scope looks like a conventional 60mm of the time, but the tube appears blue

and it has a long finder on it.

 

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That's an entry level Sears with just a sight tube (flat piece of glass at front). I believe they made a 50mm and a 60mm with a skinny sight tube.

 

60mm

https://www.facebook...01930676698464/

 

50mm

https://www.cloudyni...omat/?p=7437214

Edited by Kasmos, 22 September 2024 - 02:25 AM.

[RichA]

Nice! So it's a DX8, very cool. Here's a shot of the rear cell for fun - look at that eye relief!

Post-apocalyptic scenario so the scope must be the mutant.

[Terra Nova]

I just grabbed this scene from the classic sci-fi movie, invasion of the body snatchers (1956), one of my all-time favorites. Look at the price of gasoline on the filling station sign- 26.9 cents a gallon, for ethyl (hi-test). In today's (2024) money, that's $3.09  after adjusting for inflation. I got gas (regular) at Kroger for $2.89 yesterday!

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Edited by Terra Nova, 30 October 2024 - 08:15 PM.

[scout]

In addition to that orange Criterion DynaMax 8 in Furiosa, there were several refractors, and a reflector pointing down and backwards. There's a better shot of all of the telescopes, but this is the only screenshot I can find:

 

 

 

 

 

[deSitter]

I just grabbed this scene from the classic sci-fi movie, invasion of the body snatchers (1956), one of my all-time favorites. Look at the price of gasoline on the filling station sign- 26.9 cents a gallon, for ethyl (hi-test). In today's (2024) money, that's $3.09  after adjusting for inflation. I got gas (regular) at Kroger for $2.89 yesterday!

Yes I investigated the historical price of gas in the US some time ago. It is remarkably consistent over many decades.

 

-drl

[norvegicus]

Yes I investigated the historical price of gas in the US some time ago. It is remarkably consistent over many decades.

 

-drl

Indeed.  The least expensive gas I remember was 78 cents in 1984, during a summer price war.   That's $2.37 in today's money.  Pretty cheap but not crazy cheap, and it was a temporary anomaly, for maybe a few weeks.

Edited by norvegicus, 31 October 2024 - 06:32 AM.

[Senex Bibax]

I just grabbed this scene from the classic sci-fi movie, invasion of the body snatchers (1956), one of my all-time favorites. Look at the price of gasoline on the filling station sign- 26.9 cents a gallon, for ethyl (hi-test). In today's (2024) money, that's $3.09  after adjusting for inflation. I got gas (regular) at Kroger for $2.89 yesterday!

I remember when I was a kid visiting relatives in Michigan and seeing gas for 29.9c / gallon, around 1969.

 

I did some quick math and converted your price of $2.89 / gallon, / 3.7 litres per gallon, then / 70 cents US = $CAD 1.00, and got a litre price of about $1.12 CAD. That is an absolute steal, average price in Ottawa today is somewhere around $1.45 CAD / litre

[norvegicus]

I remember when I was a kid visiting relatives in Michigan and seeing gas for 29.9c / gallon, around 1969.

 

I did some quick math and converted your price of $2.89 / gallon, / 3.7 litres per gallon, then / 70 cents US = $CAD 1.00, and got a litre price of about $1.12 CAD. That is an absolute steal, average price in Ottawa today is somewhere around $1.45 CAD / litre

Terra has cheap gas.  I'm paying almost as much as you here in upper Michigan, I think it's $3.49/gallon. 

 

But yes always higher in Canada.  Likely mostly due to higher taxes.

Edited by norvegicus, 31 October 2024 - 09:28 AM.

[tturtle]

Apologies if this has been posted previously, but I was delighted to find a Monty python sketch with a scope in it. This is a very funny one so definitely worth watching. 

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[deSitter]

Apologies if this has been posted previously, but I was delighted to find a Monty python sketch with a scope in it. This is a very funny one so definitely worth watching. 

I wonder what the tape deck is? Someone must know! I think it is pretending to be a computer.

 

-drl

[norvegicus]

the tall decks in back look like the old computer storage tape decks, but could be from a video studio.  the one in the foreground is pretty strange, with two sets of reels

 

here's a link:  https://www.youtube....h?v=txQM8nyirg4

Edited by norvegicus, 31 October 2024 - 03:29 PM.

[RichA]

I just grabbed this scene from the classic sci-fi movie, invasion of the body snatchers (1956), one of my all-time favorites. Look at the price of gasoline on the filling station sign- 26.9 cents a gallon, for ethyl (hi-test). In today's (2024) money, that's $3.09  after adjusting for inflation. I got gas (regular) at Kroger for $2.89 yesterday!

First time I ever noticed a price for gas.  White Rose gas in Toronto, $0.278/Imp gallon or about $0.226/U.S. gallon.  Around 1965.

[Don W]

Can we please veer back on subject?

DonW

[Terra Nova]

Can we please veer back on subject?

DonW

Sorry, I just found it interesting in a tangental sort of way. I didn’t count on a major deflection.

Edited by Terra Nova, 01 November 2024 - 10:02 AM.

[deSitter]

the tall decks in back look like the old computer storage tape decks, but could be from a video studio.  the one in the foreground is pretty strange, with two sets of reels

 

here's a link:  https://www.youtube....h?v=txQM8nyirg4

So they are likely videotape machines from the studio. By them most computer drives were air-auto-loaded from standard 1/2" reels.

 

-drl

[justfred]

 

 

I don't think these have been posted: A 1950’s vintage B&L spotting scope from my absolute favorite movie as a kid: Invaders from Mars (1953)

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[D_talley]

2024 movie EL3VATION, once again does not hire an astronomer to tell them which way to point the telescope. This is a classic scene where they have the scope pointing down while looking at the sky.  We need to assign teams of astronomers to follow all movie production teams and tell them how to use the telescope. 

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[Svenry]

There's a vintage, EQ-mounted reflector in Gale Boetticher's apartment in Se3Ep13 of Breaking Bad. It's pointing the wrong way for window viewing, but perhaps he just stores it there for grab-n-go convenience.

 

A quick web search tells me it might be a 4.5" Danubia.

 

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