[GreenKeys] "I'm not a cop, but I play one on TV!"
Richard Knoppow
1oldlens1 at ix.netcom.com
Sat Jan 7 00:34:15 EST 2017
If you want to worry about small details in movie props you will
never rest. Things from the wrong date, etc. Bothers me when people talk
into the wrong end of a microphone.
As far as ribbons go, did Teletype use cotton ribbons? The longer
lived and better printing ones were silk until nylon replaced it. You
can still get all three. I recently got a couple of cotton ribbons, they
print a lot darker than the nylon ones but are not as sharp. Metal
ribbon spools are getting to be short supply. AFAIK Teletype machines
use standard Underwood ribbons, which also fit a lot of typewriters but
some typewriters take special spools such as the Royal which as a lever
on the bottom to operate the automatic ribbon reverse and old Remington
machines which have the ribbon on a core type spool. When you have one
of these you wind new ribbon on the old spools and keep using them.
On 1/6/2017 8:25 PM, Gil Smith wrote:
> Well, no -- good catch. The spool/nylon-ribbon is from Staples, for the
> Okidata printer which still keeps the compatible ribbon a current
> product, thank goodness.
>
> If I had thought about that I would have spooled the nylon ribbon onto
> old metals reels (or even tried to ink an old cotton ribbon) but I
> really didn't think they would zoom in that close. Nor did I really
> have any extra time to do anything but build a crate and arrange
> shipping. It all happenened pretty fast.
>
> gil
>
>
> gil smith, AF7EZ
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> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: [GreenKeys] "I'm not a cop, but I play one on TV!"
> From: "drlegendre ." <drlegendre at gmail.com
> <mailto:drlegendre at gmail.com>>
> Date: Fri, January 06, 2017 9:13 pm
> To: Gil Smith <gil at baudot.net <mailto:gil at baudot.net>>
> Cc: Wayne Durkee <teletypeparts at comcast.net
> <mailto:teletypeparts at comcast.net>>, aaa-greenkeys
> <greenkeys at mailman.qth.net <mailto:greenkeys at mailman.qth.net>>
>
> Err.. it's set in 1941, and the TTY ribbon is wound on plastic spools?
>
> Did I see that correctly? Were plastic spools in use that early?
>
> On Wed, Jan 4, 2017 at 10:13 PM, Gil Smith <gil at baudot.net
> <mailto:gil at baudot.net>> wrote:
>
> Hey folks:
>
> Well thanks to those who watched. The air time we got was a bit
> disappointing -- I didn't much care if I got on but it would
> have been nice if they got a split-second of my wife's face to
> help offset a several-thousand-dollar trip to NYC. Ahh well; I
> am used to being disappointed by this time in life. Was fun,
> but I wouldn't do it again. At least my machine came back in
> good shape. There is no point in grabbing any video, but a few
> screen-grabs:
>
> 001 - the M15 printing a custom message
> 007 - they cut off my wife's head, my my gray head in background
> 024 - me as cop #5 on the right
> 028 - the side of my wife's face at the tty
> 044 and 048 - my wife at the tty
> and also a screen shot from a segment they did not use
>
> thx, gil
>
> gil smith, AF7EZ
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> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: [GreenKeys] "I'm not a cop, but I play one on TV!"
> From: Wayne Durkee <teletypeparts at comcast.net
> <mailto:teletypeparts at comcast.net>>
> Date: Wed, January 04, 2017 9:37 am
> To: aaa-greenkeys <greenkeys at mailman.qth.net
> <mailto:greenkeys at mailman.qth.net>>, Gil Smith
> <gil at baudot.net <mailto:gil at baudot.net>>
>
> Gil,
>
> My wife and I watched. Saw plenty of the 15 but of course
> not sure of you or you wife.
>
> It was an interesting program as well.
>
> Wayne
> KB1FDW
>
>> On January 1, 2017 at 3:56 PM Gil Smith <gil at baudot.net
>> <mailto:gil at baudot.net>> wrote:
>>
>> Hey folks:
>>
>> Happy New Year!
>>
>> Just in case any of you are interested, I just found out
>> that the TV show my wife and I were taping in New York
>> last July will premiere next Tuesday:
>>
>> A Crime To Remember -- The Gentleman Killer
>> 7pm MST, Tues, Jan 3
>> Investigation Discovery Channel
>> Directv: ch-285, Dish: ch-192, Cox: ch-104,
>> Centurylink: ch-261/1261
>>
>>
>> This was all due to the show wanting to rent one of my tty
>> machines for a show re-creating a 1941 murder.
>>
>> My wife loves that show, and watches that channel
>> literally every day. I told the show folks that I could
>> make the machine happen for them if they put my wife on
>> the show. I was really only joking, but the producer
>> said: "Sure, she can play the police secretary." I almost
>> pooped my pants. I said to my wife, "Hey honey,
>> interested in maybe being on ID for a couple of seconds?"
>>
>> So we went to NYC for a few days, and went to the taping.
>> When we walked in, they said: "We also need another cop,
>> and would you play him? It pays $75 bucks." Sure, I said.
>>
>> I really don't think I will be seen on TV except maybe
>> seeing my gun belt as I walk past the detective's desk,
>> but hopefully the police secretary gets a couple of
>> seconds of air time. My TTY certainly should.
>>
>> This is my favorite M15, which I got probably fifteen
>> years ago from Tom Kleinschmidt. I have had other M15s
>> since, including one I refurbed for the local Batcave, but
>> this one is special. I made a little clip of it for my
>> non-tty friends who wonder what the heck I am talking about:
>>
>> https://youtu.be/9bapH4IGJ7I
>>
>> Now to see whether we actually gets a few seconds on
>> camera or not.
>>
>> gil
>>
>>
>> gil smith, AF7EZ
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