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13th Aug 2018, 9:14 am
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Heptode
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Shoreham-by-Sea, West Sussex, UK.
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Recording Device Identification
Here's a bit of an odd question:
I saw a film the other month. It was obviously an italian film from - lets say - 1960. I saw it in its German translated version and the film title translated into English would be something like "The Postman". The film was nothing remarkable but a piece of early recording equipment that the film made reference to caught my eye. It looked the shape of a bakelite version of an early Apple iMac! It was a similar shape but probably about half the size. It was obviously a voice recorder / dictation machine with a built-in speaker and external microphone and something that looked like a video cassette / book sized item was slipped into the front of the machine to make the recording. Any ideas? I have seen nothing like it... |
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16th Aug 2018, 11:31 pm
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Dekatron
Join Date: May 2010
Location: Greater Manchester, UK.
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Re: Recording Device Identification
Was it this 1985 film, set in 1950 "Il Postino"?
https://youtu.be/l-wrM1ptyHM?t=76 Looks like we just miss him inserting the "media".
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23rd Aug 2018, 3:12 pm
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Heptode
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Shoreham-by-Sea, West Sussex, UK.
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Re: Recording Device Identification
Sorry for the delay. Yes, that’s it ...
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23rd Aug 2018, 3:32 pm
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Heptode
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: West London, UK.
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Re: Recording Device Identification
It seems you can watch the whole film on You Tube in Italian.
I looked at the scenes with the recorder, no idea what it is, the cartridge/cassette looks almost as large as a VHS tape. Something unique to Italy or a film prop. John |
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