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Radio Wrangler · 18th Mar 2018, 5:24 am

You never know what is real and what was deliberately added for dramatic reasons. The radiogram would have been plugged into a power circuit, but the lights also went out, so it would seem that an RCD was tripped rather than a 'fuse'.

Plugging in something just brought in by a stranger seems far too trusting. Showing viewers live stuff spread around doesn't seem to have worried them, but they didn't show anyone lighting that pipe! now that would have been unacceptable.

There wasn't even a multimeter anywhere to be seen that could have checked the earthing.

David

18th Mar 2018, 5:24 am	#51
Radio Wrangler Moderator Join Date: Mar 2012 Location: Fife, Scotland, UK. Posts: 22,858	Re: Vintage Radios, TVs etc in films and on TV (not anachronisms) You never know what is real and what was deliberately added for dramatic reasons. The radiogram would have been plugged into a power circuit, but the lights also went out, so it would seem that an RCD was tripped rather than a 'fuse'. Plugging in something just brought in by a stranger seems far too trusting. Showing viewers live stuff spread around doesn't seem to have worried them, but they didn't show anyone lighting that pipe! now that would have been unacceptable. There wasn't even a multimeter anywhere to be seen that could have checked the earthing. David __________________ Can't afford the volcanic island yet, but the plans for my monorail and the goons' uniforms are done