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Clock Talk => Telechron & GE Clocks => Topic started by: RFBIII on August 27, 2008, 04:23:41 PM
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Attached are screen shots from the great four star comedy The More The Merrier. Jean Arthur's alarm clock is a 7H117 Reporter, in ivory.
In the scenes where the clock is shown the second hand is moving! ;D
Enjoy! Watch the movie sometime. It boasts the great Jean Arthur, the always solid Joel McCrea, and the delightful Charles Coburn (who won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for this role).
Bob
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Wow! Nice pics. :o Are you viewing the movies on your PC's DVD player and doing a print screen?
I had a crush on Jean Arthur since Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.
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Pappy,
I used VLC as a player for the DVD on my PC and did a screen shot at the appropriate moment. From there I had to use my trusty old Paint Shop Pro to drop the colors from True Color to 256 colors to get the byte size down, and then saved the image as a .gif.
Jean Arthur has long been on my short list of favorite actresses. What would Jefferson Smith have done without Clarissa in Mr. Smith Goes To Washington?
Bob
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Just sighted this clock in the Bogart movie "Dead Reckoning",1947, in a hotel lobby set. Reckon it may be a Telechron?
-Matt
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See:
http://telechrontime.net/smf/index.php?topic=33.0
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Matt, you wouldn't know what happened to Louie's body, would you?
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Ah; Thanks Lenny; I didn't see that Pappy had already noticed the clock in the other (TV) thread.
Pappy, I thought Louies' body was in the trunk of the car during the crash. I assume it must have been discovered... But this is never mentioned, is it? A rather aggravating little loose plot thread...
One thing I notice about the great Bogart movies (Maltese Falcon, To Have and Have not, Big Sleep, Casablanca, Sierra Madre, Key Largo etc.): Not enough clocks!
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The "Dead Reckoning" clock is very similar to my 1H1308, but I think the movie clock is an earlier version, and it's
probably bigger than 8". A check of the commercial clocks on the main site shows that it appears to be from the
1H5/1H9 series.
P.S. (Later). Whoops, sorry, pardon my redundancy. I just saw Pappy's post in the other topic.
See http://www.telechrontime.net/waryears/1h512.htm
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In a recent episode of NCIS entitled "Twisted Sister" one of the agents who works under Mark Harmon's character, had a GE 'Ballard' or a 'New Ballard' on his desk at home. The clock, which was in beautiful condition, was real surprising to see on the show.
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In a recent episode of NCIS entitled "Twisted Sister" one of the agents who works under Mark Harmon's character, had a GE 'Ballard' or a 'New Ballard' on his desk at home. The clock, which was in beautiful condition, was real surprising to see on the show.
There is a Ballard (or New Ballard) that shows up frequently on the sets of the British series "Heartbeat." I don't know if anyone here watches this series about the quirky folks who live in the fictional towns surrounding Ashfordly Estate in Yorkshire, but it is something I look forward to every week.
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Spotted a 356 "Tudor" in The Public Eye last night. It's in a long pan of Nabler's office toward the end of the film. I'd show you the pic but I watched it on LASERDISC!.
I first saw the Public Eye in 1992 when it came out. I really, really liked it. It's become forgotten now for some reason because it hasn't been released on DVD or vice-versa. I watched it again for the first time in 17 years thanks to my new, old Pioneer laserdisc player. (Maybe I should feature it vintage appliances.) Laserdiscs are neat, "old" technology.
Anyway, if you get a chance, see the Public Eye. I liked it as well last night as I did when I first saw it. (That never happens, does it?) I'm sure it's Joe Pesci's best film.
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Spotted a 356 "Tudor" in The Public Eye last night. It's in a long pan of Nabler's office toward the end of the film. I'd show you the pic but I watched it on LASERDISC!.
I first saw the Public Eye in 1992 when it came out. I really, really liked it. It's become forgotten now for some reason because it hasn't been released on DVD or vice-versa. I watched it again for the first time in 17 years thanks to my new, old Pioneer laserdisc player. (Maybe I should feature it vintage appliances.) Laserdiscs are neat, "old" technology.
Anyway, if you get a chance, see the Public Eye. I liked it as well last night as I did when I first saw it. (That never happens, does it?) I'm sure it's Joe Pesci's best film.
A laserdisc??? I started to chuckle...until I remembered the box of 8-track tapes from my folks place that I gave away to some ole prospector last year...and then there's our teenage daughters who are always giving me grief about my cassette player out in the garage...with a nearby tape stack of George Jones, Merle Haggard, Roy Rogers, well...that list goes on for awhile... Papabear...why don't you download your "old timer" music from iTunes and listen to them on an iPod....looky here you young whippersnappers...while I'll have you know when I was a youngster, I remember cranking the arm on yer great-grandma's Victrola so’s I could listen to her Fred Astaire records....dancing cheek to cheek…now those were the days! 8)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laserdisc
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Just spotted a nice Minitmaster on the kitchen wall in Driving Miss Daisy, It is in the scene where see finds a can of salmon missing .
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Just finished watching "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button", and in the scene where Benjamin and Daisy first move in to the duplex they bought there's what looks to be a 4H89 Vagabond on the mantel.
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Was subjected to chick flick, "Post Grad" tonight. >:[ One happy scene--have you ever seen so many Telechrons in a movie? :-() Even a Superlarm. Amazing.
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Nice collection Keaton has there - Green 700 :-()
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Was subjected to chick flick, "Post Grad" tonight. >:[ One happy scene--have you ever seen so many Telechrons in a movie? :-() Even a Superlarm. Amazing.
wow. even two 700's. is that a green or a WHITE ONE ON THE UPPER SHELF? cant wait to rent it.
(wifey doesnt let me take her to movies anymore during their regular run, as i ALWAYS FALL ASLEEP and snore and embarrass her.)
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DON'T rent it. *v-
Doesn't get much worse than 8%--does it?
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/post_grad/
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Wow - I'm pretty sure I might own that actual green 700 on the top shelf! I bought it from an LA seller and it has a bar coded catalogue label on the back stating "20th century Props" etc. This made me think it was from a studio prop collection... It has the yellow dial (I've been told most green 700's had white dials so that makes it at least somewhat unique if true) plus it is missing all trim pieces - even both the thin upright side pieces which are "never" missing. The 6 is badly faded and the hour and minute hands hands are in exactly the same position as per the still shot from the movie. I bet the second hand is bang on the 11 o'clock position too like mine. Gonna have to get that movie out now!
I'm sure most of you will recall having seen it before.... :-*
http://cgi.ebay.com/RARE-Green-Telechron-Clock-Skyscraper-/350355640953?cmd=ViewItem&pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item5192d2d279
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Yep - that has to be it. It's the alarm set time that at the 11 position and the minute hand is missing now that I look closer. I'm sure I have that very clock sitting here on my shelves in tropical north Queensland...
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Yep - that has to be it. It's the alarm set time that at the 11 position and the minute hand is missing now that I look closer. I'm sure I have that very clock sitting here on my shelves in tropical north Queensland...
- Now, that is a pedigree !!!
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I asked the question of the seller and he has confirmed that my clock came from the 20th Century Props Auction and that they supplied those clocks as a set props for the Post Grad movie. Indeed it is the very same clock....
Very sad story behind the demise of 20th Centuary Props though. Heartbreaking for Harvey.
http://www.screenhead.com/reviews/20th-century-props-closing-due-to-rapidly-changing-hollywood/
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:-(
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The Man Who Wasn't There - 2001 black-and-white film noir by Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, Billy Bob Thornton is Ed Crane.
Here's the Metal Octagonal in white...
Odd movie... but good... well made...
(the Coen's probably used the same clock used in OBWAT..but painted..)
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Great flick. Their recent stuff has been a great disappointment to me. >:[
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If I recall, one or two of those, the Green 700 I think, ended up safely in fellow bro DownUnder's home.. ;)
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Yes Sir - 100% correct Mr OTF. The green one only however. That makes the 700 count 32B, 6I, 2G....
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So what's the goal? 100? 1000? You know what's good? beanie babies.
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1F408 in "Legion" in the garage --
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Here are some Legion images...
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Might it also be a 1H1412 ? Appears in your nice pic that the annulus next to the crystal is "flat" like the 1H412 than the rounded 1F408 ?
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CSI Miami in tonight's show put an acrylic crystal on a commercial Telechron (no logo that I saw..) 1H1315 (or similar).... and torched it .. :0 :0 Guess they used they used the acylic for the fine melting effect. (Haven't heard that large commercial clocks had acrylic crystals in the late 40's - 50's ?... glass is still pretty cheap and hard to beat..). Palladian mentioned he had done some prop work like this.. :-*
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...............In the November, 2010 Thanksgiving issue of 'Bon Appetit' Magazine, at Page 10, of 'Features and Starters', there is a lovely picture of the baked creations of the 'Sugar Bake Shop' located in (Charleston?) South Carolina. On the interior brick wall of the bakery, is a 15"-16" dark wooden square Telechron wall clock with a white face and red sweep second hand, prominently displayed in the photo. We are now in the world of 'foodies."
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Watching The Santa Clause II tonight...Christmas Eve and all ... saw this Discover card commercial...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Lzz8KER520&feature=related (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Lzz8KER520&feature=related)
Metal Octogon...hour hand amputated...those cinematical barbarians...
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"The Skeptic" - with Tim Daly... has a 356 Tudor about 14 minutes in... and a hard to ID Tambour similar to the 335 Englewood..
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2F81 Swarthmore in "The Box" with Cameron Diaz - beginning of movie, hall entrance :-()
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Can't remember if these have been posted earlier... but, here are some from Driving Miss Daisy...
had to add the wood-cased arched opening... dude.. that is cool...
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I'll have to watch that one again. :D
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Ah, one of the perks of working for Netflix is a free subscription. Just started watching the series Mad Men on DVD, and in several episodes you can see in the lead character Don Draper's bedroom that his wife has a 7H216K Brite-Dial on her nightstand.
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0># Are you enjoying Mad Men? I've heard people say it's good but it leaves you feeling depressed. I just like sunshine, lollipops and rainbows.
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0># Are you enjoying Mad Men? I've heard people say it's good but it leaves you feeling depressed. I just like sunshine, lollipops and rainbows.
Yeah, it is actually pretty good. It really captures what society was like in 1960 with everybody smoking everywhere, executives with fully stocked liquor cabinets in their offices and mistresses on the side, the thinly veiled racism and anti-Semitism, and what really went on behind closed doors in that carefully cultivated façade of 1950s upper middle class suburban bliss. So I can certainly why some people would feel like they need to take a shower after watching it.
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Mr. Monk Gets Jury Duty. A 1H1612 (G.E.-only dial)
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NICE - well spotted
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..................In "Good Morning Vietnam', there is more than one scene, shot in the Army's DJ booth, where Adrian Kronauer (Robin Williams) is doing his "show",
where a large Telechron Wall Clock is exhibited!
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Will have to check at out!
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Caught Rango over the weekend. A bit too deep and dark for my 5 year old, but her mom and I thought it not too bad for a computer animated lizard Western – chock full of cinematic allusions - Chinatown, Shane, The Quick and the Dead, etc. Most intriguing detail – town square clock tower in critter-occupied ghost town “Dirt,†where the action takes place, features a repurposed wall clock prominently displaying….you guessed it: the “Telechron†logo! A sort of 108-ish model. Seems there’s a fan on the design team at Industrial Light and Magic.
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That made my day! :D
Now I must see it!
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Was watching "Twin Peaks Fire Walk With Me" the other night, and in the scene where Chris Isaak's and Kiefer Sutherland's characters first arrive at the Deer Meadow sherrif's office there's a 7H118 Troubador on the receptionist desk.
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I vaguely remember an episode of "The Mentalist" where Patrick Jane is up to his old trick of walking around in a home that the 'CDU' is visiting touching things, taking them down off shelves and examining them - all with the object of rattling the people being interviewed (they have to follow him around with their eyes anxiously expecting him to drop something valuable). In one episode it seems to me that he goes to a mantelpiece and picks up either a 711 or AB-712 and examines it. However it happened so quickly I was unable to be sure of what it was that I saw.
Did anyone else see this one?
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In "La Bamba" - in the studio scene where Richie Valens is recording "Donna" - is a 1F312 Octo -
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..........The movie 'Cadillac Nights' (the story of Chicago's Chess Records and the Chess family who recorded many of the great blues artists of the 1950's, i.e. Muddy Waters, Howlin Wolf, Willie Dixon, Chuck Berry, etc.) features a recording session scene with Etta James (Beyonce) singing, with a large pastel six or eight sided Telechron clock hanging on the wall of the control room.
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Must be a rule: Movie recording studios all need a 1F312. *_*
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Watched the Sci-Fi movie 'I Am Number Four' tonight. In an old farmhouse, spotted a 2H08 Garcon on the kitchen wall. I was sort of impressed because they actually did hang it in the kitchen.
The movie wasn't half bad either, little predictable, but a fun movie regardless.
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Ug. It's just (2011) been re-made. 0>#The culture is bankrupt.
Hope to see the original one day.
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There are some Telechron or GE commercial wall clocks in "The Young Philadelphians" with Paul Newman (1959)
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I never knew any of these clocks went to the moon.
There is a GE wall clock (including the "General Electric" name, with the power failure indicator red) built into the wall of the spaceship in Destination Moon (1950).
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In a recent Law and Order SVU episode entitled 'Possessed', Detectives Stabler and Benson rush into the bedroom of the heinous villain who has been shot in the head and stomach by the female victim. On the night stand in the bedroom, to the left of the bed (as portrayed in the scene as we see it) is a beautiful glass 'Suave'. Hooray for the property master! Must be a fan!
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Saw this in "The Fighter"...bad movie...boring, predictable..
A 1H1412 - Commercial Business Clock on the wall of the gym...
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Good eye!
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I didnt see this in a movie but back in Feb. I went to Walmart to look at shelves and cases and low and behold...the picture on the box that contained the bookcase had a picture of what looked like 712 or at least an altered version. (I felt weird taking pictures with a camara phone of a box in walmart.) *^o
(Pappys 711 post reminded me I had for got to post it under sightings)
Several years ago Pottery Barn sold Chinese-produced knockoffs of the 7H140 Delegate and the 71X series. Looks like the clock in the pic is one of the knockoffs. But that does go to show the timelessness of the designs, that they would be reproduced and sold 60-80 years after the originals. :)
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@^? @^? @^? wow.. a great B&W flick.. but a shocking fun Telechron treat: 1935's "The Star of Midnight" with William Powell and Ginger Rogers. I tape the Sat night late TCM B&W films - usually pretty good.. woke up and (%$
About 1 minute in, the 2nd scene is a full frame closeup of the 530 Nottingham !! What a thrill ! It has 2 scenes, almost a full-frame picture, and then a 2nd a bit backgroun on the table. But the fun continues.. with a 453 Denmore in Powell's kitchen, and (a bit more guessing here.. you help me out...) a 7H83 Mentor alarm clock on Powell's night stand.. kinda wonder if these were Powell favorites or the prop guys... The scene on the Nottingham is so long, and so good, you can see its second hand move for 4 seconds..
I had to do the "Today-then" color_B&W thing ... just had to }^*
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The 453 Constance in "Star of Midnight" in William Powell's kitchen--
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.. and this William Powell bedside alarm in "Star of Midnight".. what I am guessing is the 7H83 Mentor.. but might be an Airlux ?
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.. and this William Powell bedside alarm in "Star of Midnight".. what I am guessing is the 7H83 Mentor.. but might be an Airlux ?
Nice! "A Telechron for every room"!
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Wow. That's a passel of Telechrons for sure. Love William Powell. Ginger Rogers is OK too.
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.. *}} I have mine on "KEEP".. I like it a bit more than Powell's Thin Man series - which are pretty great.. he's a bit more serious in this one...
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Did anyone spot the big Telechron wall clock at the training gym in "The Fighter" (the Mark Wahlberg movie about 'Irish' Mickey Ward)? It gets a closeup in a scene near the beginning of the movie.
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Missed it. ()) Thank you for showing to me...
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Go back a few posts and you will see what you missed...
http://telechron.net/galvanic/index.php?topic=34.msg19707#msg19707 (http://telechron.net/galvanic/index.php?topic=34.msg19707#msg19707)
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Go back a few posts and you will see what you missed...
http://telechron.net/galvanic/index.php?topic=34.msg19707#msg19707 (http://telechron.net/galvanic/index.php?topic=34.msg19707#msg19707)
Ah, Kid! trust you to have spotted it before I did!
I was also quite disappointed in the movie. It felt as if the production people were not sure which direction they wanted the movie to go. It was frustrating to watch. And I really wished they had touched on the series of barn storming wars between 'Irish' Mikey Ward and Arturo 'Thunder' Gatti. Every one of their matches was declared "fight of the year" by Ring magazine.
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I can't confirm a Telechron - but Moonglow, United, Logan, maybe an Epicure - on next weeks "Burn Notice" 8/18... starring what looks like Boinker D%D (see previews...) lots of clocks !
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I can't confirm a Telechron - but Moonglow, United, Logan, maybe an Epicure - on next weeks "Burn Notice" 8/18... starring what looks like Boinker D%D (see previews...) lots of clocks !
Must be a movie about Hobbits...
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Saw this in "The Fighter"...bad movie...boring, predictable..
A 1H1412 - Commercial Business Clock on the wall of the gym...
I liked it. They did a good job the Boston accents. How scary were the 7 sisters??? *_*
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"The Finger Points" - 1931 with Gable and Fay Wray... 333 Beverly and a 201 (me think) Wall Telechron... checking out the 1930 Philo Vance "The Bishop Murder Case"..
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"The Winning Team" - 1952 story of the amazing great pitcher Grover Cleveland Alexander - played by Ronald Reagan, along with Doris Day -
- Nice detail view of the 563 Huntington http://www.telechron.net/563.htm
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The Stranger, 1946, directed by Orson Wells... actually a good movie..clocks are featured in the plot interestingly...
(streams on Netflix)
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/dc/The_Stranger_%28film%29.jpg)
Now, what is that above Orson's shoulder? Hammond?
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umm... not sure...my guess.... a telechron? (but wheres the electric cord?)
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Probably set up with the recessed "clock outlet" and hanger behind.
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Now, what is that above Orson's shoulder? Hammond?
http://telechron.net/goldenage/1b515.htm (http://telechron.net/goldenage/1b515.htm)?
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It says "Gruen" on the dial. They made wristwatches, but did they make commercial clocks too?
Tony
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This it?...
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Original-Retro-Hammond-Postal-Electric-Deco-Wall-Clock-/110749597007?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item19c930bd4f (http://www.ebay.com/itm/Original-Retro-Hammond-Postal-Electric-Deco-Wall-Clock-/110749597007?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item19c930bd4f)
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That looks right. As cool as that clock is, it weighs a ton and being a Hammond, you have to take it off the wall to start it. <:[
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Been watching too many old movies...
What do we have here?...
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Been watching too many old movies...
What do we have here?...
.. I'm guessing the 371 Auburn, instead of the 323 Petite. The Auburn has a silvered glass crystal... I'm wondering if that is causing the slight obscuration of the 1 and 2 numerals ? - white lacquer ?
nice pic from the telly
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Been watching too many old movies...
What do we have here?...
.. I'm guessing the 371 Auburn, instead of the 323 Petite. The Auburn has a silvered glass crystal... I'm wondering if that is causing the slight obscuration of the 1 and 2 numerals ? - white lacquer ?
nice pic from the telly
Like Midwestsky's?... don't think so, the mirror would be more obvious...
http://telechron.net/galvanic/index.php?topic=780.msg20542#msg20542 (http://telechron.net/galvanic/index.php?topic=780.msg20542#msg20542)
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Been watching too many old movies...
What do we have here?...
.. I'm guessing the 371 Auburn, instead of the 323 Petite. The Auburn has a silvered glass crystal... I'm wondering if that is causing the slight obscuration of the 1 and 2 numerals ? - white lacquer ?
nice pic from the telly
Like Midwestsky's?... don't think so, the mirror would be more obvious...
http://telechron.net/galvanic/index.php?topic=780.msg20542#msg20542 (http://telechron.net/galvanic/index.php?topic=780.msg20542#msg20542)
I see your point - just looking at the 2, 400% zoom - wonderin' if the bezel alone would encroach that far in or not... ? *=*
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@^? @^? @^? wow.. a great B&W flick.. but a shocking fun Telechron treat: 1935's "The Star of Midnight" with William Powell and Ginger Rogers. I tape the Sat night late TCM B&W films - usually pretty good.. woke up and (%$
About 1 minute in, the 2nd scene is a full frame closeup of the 530 Nottingham !! What a thrill ! It has 2 scenes, almost a full-frame picture, and then a 2nd a bit backgroun on the table. But the fun continues.. with a 453 Denmore in Powell's kitchen, and (a bit more guessing here.. you help me out...) a 7H83 Mentor alarm clock on Powell's night stand.. kinda wonder if these were Powell favorites or the prop guys... The scene on the Nottingham is so long, and so good, you can see its second hand move for 4 seconds..
I had to do the "Today-then" color_B&W thing ... just had to }^*
Another 530 Nottingham in today's TCM showing of the 1934 "Murder on the Blackboard" with Edna Mae Oliver playing amateur detective Hildegarde Withers -
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Impact... 1949
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/47/ImpactDVDCoverEllaRaines.jpg)
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How was it?
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I'd give 2 out of 5 clocks
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A 7H135 Telalarm Jr prominently seen during the opening credits to The Fog.
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Atomic Cafe...
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/4b/The-atomic-cafe-movie-Poster.jpg)
I give it 5 out of 5 clocks.
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This was kind of a mind bender...
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/2a/Snakepit1948_62862n.jpg)
The main character's mom was played by "Eunice 'Lovey' Wentworth Howell"...Thurston Howell III's wife...
..anyway there was a GE wall clock...
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Not technically a Telechron sighting, but my partner and I were watching Rango last night and in one shot where the clock in the tower (actually a pocketwatch, since everything in town is much smaller than human size) strikes noon you can clearly see the Telechron logo on the dial.
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... not a movie. but the popular "Bones" show had one of those Telechron in the base of the lamp on the nightstand end of last show..
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PBS - American Experience: Truman
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Caught ...1949
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/07/Caught_%281949_film%29.jpg)
Not a very good movie...but a very odd Telechron/GE sequence...
The girl is waking up, turns on the light...
Oddly, the clock's second hand is moving backwards... what the heck? (maybe the first Telechron/GE blooper ever?...)
Name the clock.
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Harry der Alder *^o
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Weird. Tell IMDB!
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Hey! Harry had a New Lorraine as his desk clock! I use mine for that same purpose from time to time.
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I'm pretty sure there's a 50's GE chime clock on the mantel in the USPS holiday ad on tv right now. You know, the one they play every commercial break with the crazy guy in the miniature Christmas house. Although I might be the crazy one for noticing that/hallucinating these in commercials. :-*
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@^? @^? @^? wow.. a great B&W flick.. but a shocking fun Telechron treat: 1935's "The Star of Midnight" with William Powell and Ginger Rogers. I tape the Sat night late TCM B&W films - usually pretty good.. woke up and (%$
About 1 minute in, the 2nd scene is a full frame closeup of the 530 Nottingham !! What a thrill ! It has 2 scenes, almost a full-frame picture, and then a 2nd a bit backgroun on the table. But the fun continues.. with a 453 Denmore in Powell's kitchen, and (a bit more guessing here.. you help me out...) a 7H83 Mentor alarm clock on Powell's night stand.. kinda wonder if these were Powell favorites or the prop guys... The scene on the Nottingham is so long, and so good, you can see its second hand move for 4 seconds..
I had to do the "Today-then" color_B&W thing ... just had to }^*
Set your DVR -- "Star of Midnight" with William Powell, Ginger Rogers airs on Friday, December 2nd at 7:00 am Eastern (5am AZ, 4am Pacific .. ;) ).. on TCM Turner Classic Movies...
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Modernique in the 1932 "Double Harness" with William Powell, on TCM. I think Powell must have been a big Telechron fan - He was in the Midnight Star with the Nottingham too..
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Not as exciting a discovery as OTF's Modernique, but I was watching Tootsie last night for the umpteenth time and just noticed for the first time a green 2H17 Minitmaster in Dustin Hoffmans' kitchen.
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The dreaded MinuteMaster... I saw Don Henley live with the Eagles in San Antonio... a truly superb musician.
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This is not a Telechron, but 53 minutes into the B-picture crime movie "Police Rookie," also called "I Take This Oath" (1940), there is a big Postal Telegraph clock on the wall. Amazingly, it is not running!
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"Legal Eagles", with Redford, Wigner, Hannah.. has Redford shaking an alarm clock, then fades to a full screen view of a 700 Electrolarm dial... I guess they used this cool dial instead of the cheapo alarm he was shaking.. no full pic of the Electrolarm from what I saw @^?
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Just started watching Mad Men, first one sighted ... Season 1, Episode 2... the dreaded Brite Dial
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Just started watching Mad Men, first one sighted ... Season 1, Episode 2... the dreaded Brite Dial
Dreaded |-&........ I sorta thought they looked pretty cool.
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....... I sorta thought they looked pretty cool.
They do look pretty cool. Nice clock, too.
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....... I sorta thought they looked pretty cool.
They do look pretty cool. Nice clock, too.
I love my Brite-Dial, it's my current bedside alarm.
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I do miss that avatar you had up there of the Brite dial... your post a while back is what drew my attention to it. I'v been watching them on ebay.
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I do miss that avatar you had up there of the Brite dial... your post a while back is what drew my attention to it. I'v been watching them on ebay.
It does look great lit up! :)
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Fat Man & Little Boy...
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I think they used a barometric sensor to fire them off.. .but kinda wondering if a Telechron rotor based timer might have been a backup...
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Was watching "Being John Malkovich" last night, strange movie any way you look at it, and in one scene there was a close up of a 3H176 Geneva on his mantelpiece.
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I only have an antenna for TV...never had cable. The local TV station added METV. Tonight...the Batman episode is featuring the diabolocal villian Clock King. In his evil lair, he has numerous clocks, one is a Pharoah.
(http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20081002023114/marvel_dc/images/a/a5/Clock_King_%28Batman_TV_Series%29.jpg)
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Bully here...
Made it to the second season of Alfred Hitchcock Presents...
I don't think this is a Telechron/GE...
Update...Should have waited ...here's another
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Groundhog Day features a red Buffet and a black Consort on the same wall inside the Tip Top Cafe...
...time theme in the movie...get it?
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Groundhog Day features a red Buffet and a black Consort on the same wall inside the Tip Top Cafe...
...time theme in the movie...get it?
How could you miss the 2H21 Decorator right below the Buffet?
You're losin' it, Kid! ;)
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You're right, dang! <|0
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Pursuant to Pappy's "feature photo" on the main page http://www.telechron.net/main.htm (http://www.telechron.net/main.htm), I found that the movie is officially titled "Behind Office Doors".
The IMDB info can be found here: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0021649/ (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0021649/)
Yes... it is a brutal film, but the beloved Telechron wall clock, sans second hand, shows up at 40:04...
(now I'm doing the "sans" thing... who started that?... ?-?)
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Did you have to buy it? About ten years ago I had to special order it. What a disappointment! <:[
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Did you have to buy it? About ten years ago I had to special order it. What a disappointment! <:[
Free stream on the IMDB link... somewhat fuzzy...
other stuff...
http://archive.org/details/feature_films (http://archive.org/details/feature_films)
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Yet another 1F312 in LA Confidential. Ironically Guy Pearce's character imagines the Telechron is off by checking it against his Rolex. What a silly thing! Despite that little gaffe, LA Confidential is a real favorite of mine. If you haven't seen it, go get it right away. You can thank me later.
Trailer.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4XbnrmbEME
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I asked the question of the seller and he has confirmed that my clock came from the 20th Century Props Auction and that they supplied those clocks as a set props for the Post Grad movie. Indeed it is the very same clock....
Very sad story behind the demise of 20th Centuary Props though. Heartbreaking for Harvey.
http://www.screenhead.com/reviews/20th-century-props-closing-due-to-rapidly-changing-hollywood/
Here's where it gets weird....
- I was in LA last week and had an hour to spare before our flight.
- Googled "Art Deco LA" and came up with "Harvey's on Beverly"
- It's close to our hotel so we head down there for a look.
- It's a fantastic place and we get a guided tour by Harvey Schwartz who turns out to be an absolute gentleman and the owner.
- Get talking about stuff and i compliment him on some of the Telechrons, Lawsons, Hammonds & Jeffersons he has on display.
- He asks if I'm a clock guy. I tell him "a little" and go on to tell him about my favourite green 700 which i purchased from someone in LA (see above).
- Without missing a beat Harvey says "yeah - I remember that one well". "I was 20th Centuary Props". FMD - i'm talking to the guy who i bought this clock from how many years ago on eBay?...
- How many planets aligned for this to occur?
- Small world but a really cool thing to happen :)
:afro: :afro: :afro:
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Wow! *_*
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I'm not 100 percent certain, but it looks like a Telechron.
Authentic and certainly-for-real-and-not-fake Area 51 Alien Autopsy video, see at end of article linked here.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2216077/BBC-film-crew-held-gunpoint-trying-failing-sneak-U-S-Area-51-military-base.html (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2216077/BBC-film-crew-held-gunpoint-trying-failing-sneak-U-S-Area-51-military-base.html)
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I was watching Andy Griffin one night about a month ago and thought I saw a few familiar looking clocks but not 100% sure . (I was to lazy to post about it.)
Season 8 episode 27 At the very beginning.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNROAUS0op4
:-* :-* :-* wish I could whistle like that .
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I was watching Andy Griffin one night about a month ago and thought I saw a few familiar looking clocks but not 100% sure . (I was to lazy to post about it.)
Season 8 episode 27 At the very beginning.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNROAUS0op4
:-* :-* :-* wish I could whistle like that .
You could be right. Looks like a 7H160 Heralder on the top shelf with a 2H11 Cafe and a Seth Thomas Poise on the shelf right below it.
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One more....
(hint it's about 1:49 into the show.)
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One more....
(hint it's about 1:49 into the show.)
Are you talking about that gaudy gold thing on the wall or the round commercial clock below it?
The gold one does look a bit like the very rare 2H56 Marseilles, but the case shape is different.
http://www.telechron.net/waryears/2h56.htm
I noticed the commercial clock near the start of the episode, but couldn't make out any identifying features.
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It's the one on the wall that looks sorta like a Hostess.... I'm not sure but it caught my attention.
It's shaped like a bottle cap anyway. :.D
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It's the one on the wall that looks sorta like a Hostess.... I'm not sure but it caught my attention.
It's shaped like a bottle cap anyway. :.D
I missed that one! I went back and looked, and I think it is a Hostess. That's the only clock I know of shaped like a bottle cap.
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Not really a movie but.... Is this a 2B02? This is from Disneyworld's Carousel of Progress. The whole thing was sponsored by GE (note the fridge and stove). Need a better pic... |-&
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Pappy said, " Is this a 2B02? This is from Disneyworld's Carousel of Progress."
I dunno. Maybe, but it looks like a dodecagon to me.
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Pappy said, " Is this a 2B02? This is from Disneyworld's Carousel of Progress."
I dunno. Maybe, but it looks like a dodecagon to me.
I'm gonna say it's a 453 with a painted face.
http://www.telechron.net/453.htm
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Need a better pic... |-&
How's this?
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I'll buy that. Good eye , Shipnerd @@*!
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Hi Res... @@!
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When I was in first grade, a fireman came and spoke to our class and engaged all of us to go home and rat out our parents for dangerous fire hazards. We would get a badge making us Junior Fire Marshalls. One such hazard was too many plugs in a socket; another was unsafe extension cords: loose, draped, or daisy-chained. This room would've given Fireman Bill the fantods.
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Just finished watching White Christmas. In a scene near the end is a 7H141 Airlux on the bedside table. And slightly earlier was a commercial clock that looked like it had the General Electric or Telechron logo covered over.
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Electrolarm seen in "Fingers at the Window"; 1942, Lew Ayres, Basil Rathbone-in the police chief's office -
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I just spotted a GE Light Dial on Winona Ryder
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Good movie. Christian Slater is blown to bits at the end.
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Good movie. Christian Slater is blown to bits at the end.
Thanks, Lenny... you ruined it for me.
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Yep,
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There is a large round Telechron wall clock in a 1950s bank in the movie Fall Time. Mickey Rourke looks pretty young. Didn
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Just finished watching White Christmas. In a scene near the end is a 7H141 Airlux on the bedside table. And slightly earlier was a commercial clock that looked like it had the General Electric or Telechron logo covered over.
It's a Telechron, from the style of the numbers and the shape of the hands. Guess they didn't want any "product placement" (those were the days!). G.E. clocks seem to have had their own distinct number style and hand shape. Good eye spotting the Airlux! For four decades I have seen this movie and never noticed those clocks!
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It's a Telechron, from the style of the numbers and the shape of the hands.
I think you're right. It definitely looks like the 1B915.
http://www.telechron.net/postwar/1b915.htm
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A Modernique appeared early in Topaze, a 1933 flick with Myrna Loy and John Barrymore...
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Tucker: The Man and His Dream...
Minute Master up there above the sink...
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OK, watched "Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid" on netflix... Here's Steve Martin with a wall clock...
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Here's a much nicer view of the face...
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...and here's an unknown...
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...and here's an unknown...
Looks like the Country Club from Westclox.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/WESTCLOX-COUNTRY-CLUB-1930s-Alarm-Clock-made-Salle-ILL-VERY-NICE-/251189733214
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...and here's an unknown...
Looks like the Country Club from Westclox.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/WESTCLOX-COUNTRY-CLUB-1930s-Alarm-Clock-made-Salle-ILL-VERY-NICE-/251189733214
Cool clock, case front is painted metal, anyone have one?
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Cool clock, case front is painted metal, anyone have one?
I don't have a Country Club, but I do have a Logan. I believe the Logan was the postwar version of the Country Club, since both have basically the same case.
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I also have a Logan. Logans are about a dime a dozen. Most are in poor condition, and they have paper dials. Mine is from 1951, I think and in good condition. The Country Club on ebay is severely overpriced. I wouldn't expect to pay more than $20.
Larry
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There is a 7H141 Airlux in Jimmy Stewart's bedroom in the later part of Strategic Air Command (1955). It shows up in two or three scenes.
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Movie's called "In a World . . ."
Clock is a Telechron 7H141 Acrylic Airlux.
About half way through - alarm goes off and wakes sleeping character.
Woke me too - was watching it at 3am on a longhaul international flight...
http://m.rollingstone.com/movies/reviews/in-a-world-20130830
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The Twilight Zone marathon on New Year's Eve/Day offered a few:
Time Enough To Last - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THhWDW5DuDo
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Caught this square white 5F50 Mirage in "Double Wedding" with William Powell, Myrna Loy.. and Sidney Toler.
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Caught this square white 5F50 Mirage in "Double Wedding" with William Powell, Myrna Loy.. and Sidney Toler.
Baby!
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You don't often see the backside of our clock in the movies. . I thought it interesting that the clock faced the guests and towards the chair
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Caught this square white 5F50 Mirage in "Double Wedding" with William Powell, Myrna Loy.. and Sidney Toler.
available netflix streaming?
probably not. fun photos.
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Apparently $2 to stream on Youtube. I haven't done it; From the trailer it seems to me the humor hasn't worn well.
http://www.youtube.com/movie/double-wedding (http://www.youtube.com/movie/double-wedding)
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Jane, you ignorant, from SNL. I think that is a bank of GE's on the wall...
http://youtu.be/ttqgwlCsXZM (http://youtu.be/ttqgwlCsXZM)
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It was not a Telechron - but a Westclox "Bantam" (1949) in the cabin of an ocean liner plays an extensive part near the end of A Blueprint For Murder (1953) with Jean Peters and Joseph Cotten. One of the rare cases of a movie focusing directly and repeatedly on an old electric clock.
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Been watching "The Munsters" on DVD. In the season 1 episode "Grandpa's Call of the Wild" there's what looks like a 7F72 Heralder sitting on top of the file cabinet in the park ranger's office.
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Bad Boys, 1995, Martin Lawrence, Will Smith... yo.
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There is a Lawson Zephyr alarm clock in Star Trek Into Darkness... sorry not Telechron, but clock and movie are noteworthy!
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This clock was in the first few minutes - maybe 5 - of Bowfinger with Steve Martin and Eddie Murphy IIRC. I am not sure this is Telechron. Maybe someone can comment.
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This clock was in the first few minutes - maybe 5 - of Bowfinger with Steve Martin and Eddie Murphy IIRC. I am not sure this is Telechron. Maybe someone can comment.
I was just looking at my copy of Bowfinger to see if I could identify it. It looks like it may be a Sessions.
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Yep... probably a Sessions. I found a picture of the clock I thought looked like the Bowfinger clock. It is the Buffet. See the link:
http://www.telechron.net/goldenage/2h07.htm
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Well, it's not a Telechron, but it's still running in 2259.55 in "Star Trek into Darkness" (2013)... Pennwood or Numechron ?-?
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Mate - that's a Lawson Model P40 Style 304 "Zephyr".
Case was designed in 1933 by KEM Weber and was originally known as the "Mayfair". It's believed the name was changed in 1937/38 to "Zephyr" when Lawson coined the advertising slogan ?Lawson Time-Table Time? and because of the style similarities with the famous Burlington Pioneer Zephyr train.
The one in the movie is the common antique finished copper case (or copper plated brass) There's also a chrome and black version (never seen one though), a rare solid copper (raw finish) and an uber rare Nickel plated version with gold trim.
Three of my absolute favourite non-telechrons.
(http://i1227.photobucket.com/albums/ee428/88poncho/Warren/F2B38492-7BB1-4A96-986A-F1F81D5A816C.jpg)
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Cool, very nice collection and interesting facts. I just noticed clockfan pointed out this clock movie appearance a few posts back.
In the movie, the actor slaps the top of the clock to silence the alarm.
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Cool, very nice collection and interesting factoids. I just noticed clockfan pointed out this clock movie appearance a few posts back.
In the movie, the actor slaps the top of the clock to silence the alarm.
Well that's a problem...
They ain't no alarm clock, that's for sure!
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Well, it's not a Telechron, but it's still running in 2259.55 in "Star Trek into Darkness" (2013)... Pennwood or Numechron ?-?
I am watching Star Trek Into Darkness now on EPIX. The alarm sounds very electric/modern. Since we know the Zephyr was not an alarm clock in 1933, I am thinking that Pottery Barn is still making replicas in 2259.
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Well, it's not a Telechron, but it's still running in 2259.55 in "Star Trek into Darkness" (2013)... Pennwood or Numechron ?-?
I am watching Star Trek Into Darkness now on EPIX. The alarm sounds very electric/modern. Since we know the Zephyr was not an alarm clock in 1933, I am thinking that Pottery Barn is still making replicas in 2259.
We can only hope... At that time, although I'll be older, I'll be there to buy that alarming Zephyr replicant. Btw, I went to a PB Factory Outlet last Sunday seeking more replicants. Although I found 5 different units, none of them were worthy of purchase.
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Btw, I went to a PB Factory Outlet last Sunday seeking more replicants. Although I found 5 different units, none of them were worthy of purchase.
When did PB start selling replicants?
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Btw, I went to a PB Factory Outlet last Sunday seeking more replicants. Although I found 5 different units, none of them were worthy of purchase.
When did PB start selling replicants?
Finally, someone picked up on it... it would be the shipdawg... (I examined the human replicants as well.... no purchase.)
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Finally, someone picked up on it... it would be the shipdawg... (I examined the human replicants as well.... no purchase.)
Well, I only just saw the post today. :)
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Here is an oddball. In the 1932 film Winner Take All, James Cagney plays a boxer. In the boxing arena there is what looks like a Telechron round wall clock. The script says "Telewatch" instead of Telechron. Below it says Warren Watch & Clock Co., Ashland Mass. It is shown several times.
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??? ??? ???
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A guess? Fear of trademark infringement lawsuit.
Tony
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Suffer through the ad, if it plays,... for a good memory... and a Telechron clock, to boot...
http://www.imdb.com/rg/VIDEO_PLAY/LINK//video/screenplay/vi2402393625/ (http://www.imdb.com/rg/VIDEO_PLAY/LINK//video/screenplay/vi2402393625/)
(Believe it or not, this Telechron clock face was the first thing I saw on my TV screen this morning at 5am... weird... news story, of course. I went and found the promo clip.)
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Either a Mantle or Radio Telechron. It's hard to tell cause it's a double exposure effect shot. The movie is "The Damned Don't Cry", starring Joan Crawford and David Brian. 1950.
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This scene lasts four or five seconds. The clock is running and the indicated time plays a minor part in the plot. The episode is number 18 in the first season, "Where the Action Is", and the scene is about eight and a half minutes in.
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Tucker: The Man and His Dream...
Minute Master up there above the sink...
WOW you got good eyes. One of my favorite movies, BTW. I also like the electrified hanging kerosene lamp. I have two of them, myself; one in the dining room and one in the kitchen (my folks were big antiquers back in the day).
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Here is an Airlux Lucite alarm clock. The movie is "Female on the Beach", 1955, starring Joan Crawford and Jeff Chandler. Apparently Joan Crawford's character is a late sleeper. It's a murder mystery and a good movie.
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The film is "Humoresque" (1946). Starring Joan Crawford, John Garfield and Oscar Levant. A young Robert Blake has a principal part in the film too. This is absolutely my favorite Joan Crawford film. The music in this film is as enjoyable as the picture itself.
I wonder why the clock/timer on the right has the reset flag window off-set near the 8 o'clock position. Probably because a reset flag is unnecessary on a minute timer.
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The film is "It'a a Wondeful Life" (1946). Starring James Stewart and Donna Reed. That's Donna Reed in the foreground. I'm pretty sure that's a 4H90, Ridgefield on top of the piano.
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Not sure if this has been mentioned, but in "Man of Steel" (2013) there's a Telechron wall clock for a split second at 23:26, perhaps a 1H508 or 1H912...
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Never saw Man of Steel but I've seen It's a Wonderful Life plenty of times. How did I miss that? Good eyes, guys. *^!
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I'm not sure, but think that's a 1F312. The film is "Thicker Than Water" (1935). It's a Laurel & Hardy short subject comedy also starring Daphne Pollard and James Finlayson. I'm guessing the clock was painted white to accommodate the scene which portrays a hospital.
In the scene, Stanley is visiting Ollie in the hospital after he was injured by his wife clunking him over the head with a frying pan. She was angry with Ollie after he drained their joint savings account, and paid $290.00 for a Grandfather clock he won at an auction.
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I'm watching The More the Merrier tonight for about the 20th time - one of my all-time favourite films, and Jean Arthur is one of my favourite actresses. I'd never noticed the alarm clock before tonight and immediately paused the DVD, grabbed my macbook and went through the 7-series in the war years til I found it. I could've saved myself the time and effort by searching the forum for the info :)
The More the Merrier is on youtube if anyone is interested in seeing it. You can see the clock here at 3:03 and 3:31:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5pCTrzEsfg&index=3&list=PL32659A1B23567774
Attached are screen shots from the great four star comedy The More The Merrier. Jean Arthur's alarm clock is a 7H117 Reporter, in ivory.
In the scenes where the clock is shown the second hand is moving! ;D
Enjoy! Watch the movie sometime. It boasts the great Jean Arthur, the always solid Joel McCrea, and the delightful Charles Coburn (who won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for this role).
Bob
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Funny. The crystals are gone from both clocks in the second shot. They must have wanted the sweep hands just so. The second hand hits the minute hand on the other clock so they must have been losing their patience after take 99.
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Well spotted! I never noticed that! Yes, the sweep hand had to be just so, as earlier in the film Arthur's character was going through the morning schedule with Coburn's character, timed right down to the minute, so they'd be up at 7 and out the door by 7:30. For instance, as she tells him, her alarm goes off at 7, then at 7:01 she enters the bathroom while he goes to get the milk, then by 7:05 he's started the coffee, then 1 minute later she leaves the bathroom and a minute after that he enters the bathroom, etc. Of course, the next morning he makes a complete hash of the schedule and drives her crazy D%D
Funny. The crystals are gone from both clocks in the second shot. They must have wanted the sweep hands just so. The second hand hits the minute hand on the other clock so they must have been losing their patience after take 99.
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I was confused for a second when I realized the first post in this thread mentions this same movie. Over 6 years old this thread is!
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One of the more livelier threads... (I am always carefully examining older movies/clips in search... it's fun.)
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It is fun :) I usually check out the old telephones, furniture and lamps, but now I'm also on the look-out for clocks.
One of the more livelier threads... (I am always carefully examining older movies/clips in search... it's fun.)
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More. Coburn winds his clock before bed but in the closeups it has what is clearly a smooth, electric movement. |=0
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The film is "Bullets or Ballots" (1936). Starring Edward G Robinson, Joan Blondell, Barton MacLane and Humphrey Bogart. That's Humphrey Bogart holding the 3F51 "Duke". The 3rd photo is Joan Blondell with the 3F51 on the table shortly after Bogart put it down.
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This film is "Love Crazy" (1941), a screwball comedy starring William Powell and Myrna Loy. I'm surprised that they left the Telechron logo visible on the clock; a 5H59 - Satellite.
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Usually it is product placement when the brand is readily visible. MGM also placed Automatic electric phones, Chryslers and Servel refrigerators.
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Legal Eagles, Debra Winger's bedside clock-an Electrolarm, Walnut, gold trim, gold starburst face. There's a full screen close-up of the face. ( Robert Redford has a Big Ben wind-up alarm clock.)
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Just finished watching "The Next Voice You Hear...", a movie from 1950 with Nancy Davis and James Whitmore. Nancy's character is pregnant throughout the movie and the ending takes place in the maternity ward at the hospital when she has the baby. Hanging above the sofa in the waiting room is a 2H17 Minitmaster. After that is a distance shot at the nurses station as the movie ends and on the wall is what looks like a 2H11 Cafe.
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It's not technically in the movie, but this promotional still for "Mr Blandings Builds His Dream House" shows the kitchen with what looks like a 2H08 Garçon hanging above the stove.
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I'm pretty sure there were about 3 different Telechron or GE wall clocks in the movie Zodiac. But we never get close enough to see them well. That's not the case with the lamp-less, sweep-less Clinton that appears about 71 minutes in. (Good movie. You should see it.)
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In the past year episodes of the 1950s TV police series San Francisco Beat (Also called The Lineup) have shown up on YouTube. Great views of old SF and old cars. There is a Telechron or GE clock in the first minute or so of this episode:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOp0zBoiyAY
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In the past year episodes of the 1950s TV police series San Francisco Beat (Also called The Lineup) have shown up on YouTube. Great views of old SF and old cars. There is a Telechron or GE clock in the first minute or so of this episode:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOp0zBoiyAY
The 7H179 Tribute
http://www.telechron.net/boom/7h179.htm
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Guys, I'm gonna roll this topic into the other Movie Thread.
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In the 1950 movie Young Man with a Horn starring Kirk Douglas, there is a clock that looks like a 4H55 Statesman on Lauren Bacall's nightstand. It shows up at least twice for a few seconds.
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There is a 1945 noir movie called (I think) Escape in the Fog in which the headquarters of the bad guys is in a clock shop in San Francisco Chinatown. There are many clocks including a Telechron advertising clock visible in the first 15 minutes or so. Again near the end, when the hero is about to be gassed inside the shop, there are many clocks, including a nice digital electric.
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Saw what think was an Airman and an unknown, no crystal GE commercial clock in The Girl From Mexico. Sorry, no screenshots, this was on TCM.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Girl_from_Mexico
Lupe Velez was married to Johnny Weismuller and was another Hollywood overdose/suicide story. Sad.
Ward Bond, who had to be about the busiest actor in Hollywood was unrecognizable as the Mexican wrestler. He was the Samuel L. Jackson the of the 1940's.
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It's not a movie, but I was scrolling through this article about the restoration of a rare 1960 Holiday House Geographic travel trailer, and while scrolling though the pictures saw a 3F51 Duke on the counter in the bathroom.
https://www.curbed.com/2018/10/18/17995370/rv-for-sale-camper-travel-trailer-vintage-holiday-house
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In the 1966 movie The Doomsday Flight there are various clocks including GE or Telechron wall clocks and 24 hour wall clocks. The most interesting though is a Jefferson Golden Hour that shows up many times including about 49.20, 1:02.13 and 1:06.13.
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Not a movie, but this photo accompanies a New York Times opinion piece about Nancy Pelosi. It shows a 3H163 Swarthmore on the shelf behind Nancy in the Oval Office.
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A 5H71 Panorama in Underworld USA (1961). Appears about the 1hr 22min mark in Mr Gela's home office. Mr Gela is a rich gangster so I guess he can afford wildly overpriced clocks.
Could this be the only designer line clock and maybe one of the rarest telechrons to be in a movie? |-&
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Not a movie, but this photo accompanies a New York Times opinion piece about Nancy Pelosi. It shows a 3H163 Swarthmore on the shelf behind Nancy in the Oval Office.
I'm not sure which one is less desirable.
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Not a movie, but this photo accompanies a New York Times opinion piece about Nancy Pelosi. It shows a 3H163 Swarthmore on the shelf behind Nancy in the Oval Office.
I'm not sure which one is less desirable.
I'll take the Swarthmore. At least it can be set right.
Larry
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Not a movie, but this photo accompanies a New York Times opinion piece about Nancy Pelosi. It shows a 3H163 Swarthmore on the shelf behind Nancy in the Oval Office.
I'm not sure which one is less desirable.
I'll take the Swarthmore. At least it can be set right.
Larry
I really like the Panorama. Unquestionably one of my top 3 or 4 50's designs.
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I really like the Panorama. Unquestionably one of my top 3 or 4 50's designs.
I never really cared much for the screaming 1950s styles, but I have had a 7H229 Replica on my end table for almost a week, and it is growing on me. I still hate the model name though.
Larry
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TCM Showed the George Pal 1950 film Destination Moon. The clock on board the rocket appears to be a GE branded clock that is built into the wall panel. I guess with the clock fixed like that, the tattletale couldn't be reset. I guess a red dot looked better in a color movie, anyway.
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Saw a 5F50 this AM in Remember? with Greer Garson and Robert Taylor. (I don't have Tivo so no screen cap.)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0031845/
I bet it's the same Mirage that was in Double Wedding!
Young Lew Ayres looks like Jack Lemon. He should have gotten the girl.
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Not an actual sighting but back in March I was approached by a HBO film set director to sell a 1F308 which I had for sale on Ebay and at a nice profit for a change. The miniseries took place in the 30s was supposed to be in NYC. I do not remember much more than that about the show,
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The HBO miniseries is The Plot Against America.
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OK, we have one of Boinker's "fake" Telechron banjos here...
https://youtu.be/mo9it1MA0fY?t=179
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This is not about a Telechron but about another fairly rare electric clock. In "Sky Giant" of 1938 with Joan Fontaine, Richard Dix and Chester Morris, one of the Herman Miller clocks that was supposedly exhibited at a World's Fair, and is today very valuable, is seen several times in the Colonel's office. Also it's interesting to see the young Joan Fontaine.
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Mr. and Mrs. North, Kendall www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMv2oSCTJ2M (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMv2oSCTJ2M) at 3:43
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Good eye!
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From "A Step Saving Kitchen 1949" documentary. Interesting film. You can see how important onions and potatoes were. We had meat and potatoes 3 or 4 nights a week when I was a kid.
See Chef put to work at 9:00 minutes. I want one of those stoves with the boiler!
https://archive.org/details/StepSavi1949
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From "A Step Saving Kitchen 1949" documentary. Interesting film. You can see how important onions and potatoes were. We had meat and potatoes 3 or 4 nights a week when I was a kid.
See Chef put to work at 9:00 minutes. I want one of those stoves with the boiler!
https://archive.org/details/StepSavi1949
I have that model of Admiral radio (at 03:44) in brown bakelite, and I also have a Western Electric Spacesaver phone like that.
I would lose my mind living in such an insanely organized house @@!
Larry
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On YouTube there is a very long interview of the historian Shelby Foote. After the first few minutes there is an electric clock on a mantel behind him, a little blurry but it looks like a Telechron.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQfKkCH_YoM
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That reminds me... blink and you'll miss it, but about the 17:20 mark in this one, over Robert Zemeckis' shoulder that sure looks like a Modernique to me:
https://youtu.be/crdYIUdUOhc?t=1034
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Just finished watching the 1953 sci-fi flick "Invaders From Mars". In the parent's bedroom there's what appears to be a 4H95 Kendall on the table between their beds.
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Here's a good one...
https://youtu.be/H9it72Pj9lc?t=413
Be the first to identify the clock... (easy...)
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(https://i.ytimg.com/vi/mZO3Hf4N1Go/maxresdefault.jpg)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZO3Hf4N1Go
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Just finished watching the 1953 sci-fi flick "Invaders From Mars". In the parent's bedroom there's what appears to be a 4H95 Kendall on the table between their beds.
Would have been more fun to watch if they had left Mr. Talisman's second hand in place
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Just finished watching the 1953 sci-fi flick "Invaders From Mars". In the parent's bedroom there's what appears to be a 4H95 Kendall on the table between their beds.
Would have been more fun to watch if they had left Mr. Talisman's second hand in place
When that film was produced, the clock was new, not second-hand :)
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Not a Telechron, but a Westclox "Andover" appears in the first chapter of the 1939 serial "Daredevils of the Red Circle," available on YouTube.
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In Attack of the Giant Shrews (1959), a Telechron or GE clock appears on a mantel many times, running fine, although there is no electricity.
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I was watching Raging Bull on TCM the other night and noticed a 7H141 Airlux in a bedroom scene near the end of the movie. Telechron gone Hollywood :)
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1F312
Amazon series "Reacher." Year 1, episode 1, 42 minute mark inside barber shop.
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Just finished watching Spielberg's remake of West Side Story, and there was a 2H07 Buffet on the wall in the kitchen of the apartment that Maria shared with her brother Bernardo and his girlfriend Anita.
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There is a Telechron clock on a nightstand in the first few seconds of "The Finley Case" (1954). From the CBS police drama "The Lineup" (aka "San Francisco Beat"), available on YouTube at:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bkzk9gO2MAk
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Another film noir sighting at TCM. The movie was Impact (1949) and in the scene where Charles Coburn interviews a hotel clerk, I spotted a model 7F72 @@*
The scene begins at about 44:35 in this YouTube link......
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWzpJTvUG-A
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My partner and I were watching an episode of 'Alfred Hitchock Presents' last night starring Anne Baxter and George Segal. It was from 1963 and near the end of the episode they showed a 7286 marble alarm clock, but the General Electric name and logo were removed from the face.
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I was watching the old film noir classic "While The City Sleeps" on TCM a coupe nights ago and spotted a Telechron powered Herschede wall clock. It's the same model that offered up on eBay earlier this year. Providing a few pictures and links to the posting and the movie :)
eBay
https://www.ebay.com/itm/203933494050?hash=item2f7b622b22%3Ag%3AumAAAOSwbaVicI3y&nma=true&si=Cxx96EHuX5XcwCeRk7WVQKBmgi0%253D&orig_cvip=true&nordt=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557
Movie - Clock appears at 36:01
https://archive.org/details/5.0-while-the-city-sleeps-dana-andrews-sally-forrest-thomas-mitchell-ida-lupino-
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Another sighting on TCM. The movie was Bigger Than Life (1956) with James Mason & Barbara Rush. The clock was a 2H103 Cupboard, with the wood grain dial and it was posed as a mantle clock |-& Well, it was the 50's
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Started watching the Bryan Cranston series "Your Honor". In S1E2 there's a 3H172 Candlelight on the desk in his office.
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Wasn't a movie sighting, but it's movie related. I came across this photo on a Facebook group of Ingrid Bergman and Arthur Treacher serving it up at the Hollywood Canteen during the war. That looks like a 2H14 Pantry on the wall behind Ingrid.
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Wasn't a movie sighting, but it's movie related. I came across this photo on a Facebook group of Ingrid Bergman and Arthur Treacher serving it up at the Hollywood Canteen during the war. That looks like a 2H14 Pantry on the wall behind Ingrid.
Wonder if they were serving-up fish & chips :)
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Wonder if they were serving-up fish & chips :)
Maybe more like lutefisk & chips? :)
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Wonder if they were serving-up fish & chips :)
Maybe more like lutefisk & chips? :)
Only Ingrid would know ::)
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Pursuant to Pappy's "feature photo" on the main page http://www.telechron.net/main.htm (http://www.telechron.net/main.htm), I found that the movie is officially titled "Behind Office Doors".
The IMDB info can be found here: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0021649/ (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0021649/)
Yes... it is a brutal film, but the beloved Telechron wall clock, sans second hand, shows up at 40:04...
(now I'm doing the "sans" thing... who started that?... ?-?)
Do you reckon this is a 115 (15" dial) minus the sweep hand or maybe a 118 (18") --not a 124.
I know it's been years since you posted this but now I wanna use it. Here's a clearer shot:
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Speaking of Mary Astor...In "The Maltese Falcon," there is a scene in Sam Spade's apartment with the door to the kitchen open in the background. On the far wall of the kitchen, there is what appears to be a Telechron wall clock. But it is too far away to be able to tell for sure! ???
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In the 1938 Katharine Hepburn-Cary Grant movie "Holiday," there is one scene in which a Telechron banjo clock is hanging on a nearby wall. But the glimpses are brief, and the characters seem to block out the view too much! <:[
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In the 1935 Kay Francis film "The Goose and the Gander," there is a scene in which what appears to be a Telechron banjo clock is hanging on the wall on a second-floor balcony. It's a fairly-good full-length view. ("Product Placement, " perhaps?!? :))
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In the 1935 Kay Francis film "The Goose and the Gander," there is a scene in which what appears to be a Telechron banjo clock is hanging on the wall on a second-floor balcony. It's a fairly-good full-length view. ("Product Placement, " perhaps?!? :))
That was certainly the case for Behind Office Doors.
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Pursuant to Pappy's "feature photo" on the main page http://www.telechron.net/main.htm (http://www.telechron.net/main.htm), I found that the movie is officially titled "Behind Office Doors".
The IMDB info can be found here: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0021649/ (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0021649/)
Yes... it is a brutal film, but the beloved Telechron wall clock, sans second hand, shows up at 40:04...
(now I'm doing the "sans" thing... who started that?... ?-?)
Do you reckon this is a 115 (15" dial) minus the sweep hand or maybe a 118 (18") --not a 124.
I know it's been years since you posted this but now I wanna use it. Here's a clearer shot:
I did some rough pixel calculations with the photo and (no surprise), I think Kid is (was) right on. No way this clock has an 18-inch dial. I think it's a 115 with the sweep removed--just like Kid said.
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Pursuant to Pappy's "feature photo" on the main page http://www.telechron.net/main.htm (http://www.telechron.net/main.htm), I found that the movie is officially titled "Behind Office Doors".
The IMDB info can be found here: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0021649/ (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0021649/)
Yes... it is a brutal film, but the beloved Telechron wall clock, sans second hand, shows up at 40:04...
(now I'm doing the "sans" thing... who started that?... ?-?)
Do you reckon this is a 115 (15" dial) minus the sweep hand or maybe a 118 (18") --not a 124.
I know it's been years since you posted this but now I wanna use it. Here's a clearer shot:
I did some rough pixel calculations with the photo and (no surprise), I think Kid is (was) right on. No way this clock has an 18-inch dial. I think it's a 115 with the sweep removed--just like Kid said.
OK, I think it's a 18". Here's why,
here's a 15" on sale right now. Note the location of the red flag circle...https://www.ebay.com/itm/204416245690
also, note, no counterweighted hands...
Now look at Pappy's image, the red flag circle is quite close to center, and it's got counterweighted hands...
hmmmm.... (could it be bigger?)
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I don't know that this will be of any help.......At about the 28:25 mark in the film there's a long shot of the clock, other objects in the scene might help to scale its size ?-?
The screen shot of the clock's close-up shows part of the fan cage to the lower left of the clock. Compare with the long shot, the fan cage seems to be the same diameter as the clock's dial |-&
This link is queued to 28:25
https://youtu.be/h9DYpE3s98c?t=1706
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Thanks, Telechrony, for the YouTube clip! Quite a story! Mary Astor is featured on TCM every so often, and I'll try to catch the entire movie sometime. The colorization is pretty good. Jim's office is a real "Deco Dandy," and I'm glad everyone had plenty of (1931!) "refreshing beverages!" *^! to keep from getting thirsty! (I wonder what was in Jim's office cooler!) Good thing Mary was there to handle expenses and stave off bankruptcy! :) Definitely in the "Pre-Code" category! :-* Seems like there was room in other scenes for additional "product placement!" (FYI, Mary has a definite change of pace in one of the great screwball howlers, "The Palm Beach Story." Highlights include huntin' dogs and "target practice" on a speeding train, and an appearance by none other than the "Weeny King!" D%D)
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Like I said-- no way is this anything but a 118! ())
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The 1956 movie "The Killer Is Loose" was on TCM last night. It's a film noir starring Joseph Cotten, Rhonda Fleming & Wendel Corry (playing way out of character). At the 20:11 mark Joseph Cotten wakes to a phone call and at his bedside is a 2H211 Dorm.
https://archive.org/details/the-killer-is-loose-1956
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Talk about product placement! The little guy isn't even facing the bed!! D%D ^@` |-&
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The 1941 movie "High Sierra" starring Humphrey Bogart, Ida Lupino was on the Movies! channel as part of their Sunday Night Noir line-up. In the gas station scene, at the 1:13:49 mark, it looks like there's a Telechron Model 101 or 201 on the back wall. It's a brief view and kinda fuzzy, but it looks more like a 101 to me ?-?
High Sierra Link:
https://archive.org/details/high-sierra-1941_202108
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In the suspenseful 1947 Warner Brothers film noir "Nora Prentiss," a key scene shows the concerned wife noting the late hour on her trusty bedside "Daphne." :'( Turns out her husband (esteemed doctor turned "Man About Town") is delayed by yet another " emergency " *^! involving lovely saloon singer Nora (none other than Warner's "Oomph Girl" herself, Ann Sheridan!) Things go south quickly, but at least "Miss Daphne" was there for support! (AND reliability! :.D )
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In the 1937 version of "A Star Is Born," movie mogul Oliver Niles (Adolphe Menjou) is blasted awake at 2:50 AM by a phone call from bagged matinee idol Norman Maine (Frederic March) about his "New Discovery!" (Janet Gaynor). We know the time thanks to what appears to be a 7F61 "Vedette" on Oliver's bedside table, which just HAPPENS |-& to face into the camera (!) Between the gorgeous Technicolor and a bedroom oozing with Art-Deco charm, it is a feast for the eyes!!! But...hold on, Pardner!!! The sweep-second hand is clearly moving, but...the red power-out indicator can clearly be seen! Showing RED! ?-? (Geez, perhaps the soon-to-be-legend David O. Selznick insisted on wringing out every bit of color. Or...COULD this be the eBay-hinted-at @^? "Day-Night" indicator?!?)
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l*- It occurred to me that , while movie-studio chief Oliver Niles was getting his "Power Sleep," it may have been "Power Out" time in Tinseltown, with the trusty "Vedette" going back on duty when the "juice" ( *^! No, not THAT one!!!) started "flowing" again! Face the clock TOWARDS your bed, Ollie, or you'll have NO idea that you are about to miss your appointment with Greta Garbo! :'(
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In the tense 1936 Warner Brothers gangster epic "Bullets or Ballots," crime boss Humphrey Bogart has a tense run-in with numbers-racket queen Joan Blondell in her nifty Art-Deco lair at the nightclub she runs. Bogey needs to check the time, but he must have left his Hamilton at home, >## because he grabs the "Duke" which is sitting right in front of him on her swell desk to get a good look at the CORRECT time :.D and WE get a good look, too! :) AND...all of the brass trim is there!