[Milsurplus] Radios, etc. in the movie business

[Hubert Miller]

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>...The prices were ridiculous - like hundreds of dollars for an old
AN/USM-140 (HP) boatanchor scope.  I questioned the guy about the
prices and he just shrugged.  Turns out, ABQ is the shoot location for a
lot of old WWII movies and other period films.  The studio people come
in, spend thousands upon thousands of dollars for old Army green and
Navy gray boatanchors, use them for a scene or two, then either dump
them in the landfill or take them back where they got them, get pennies
on the dollar.  And the guy puts them on the shelf ready for the next
buyer.  The studios just write it off as the cost of doing business....

>Mike Harmon, WB0LDJ

I can't see there being enough if a demand for period props for this to be longterm viable. Maybe it is some kind of tax writeoff, or a place for the owner to hoard and display his ownings, like 'Electronic Dimensions' in Tacoma WA was. ( Anyone here recall that business ?)
-Hue Miller
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