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[struth]

Oldie war effort from USA.. Airforce, 1943. Director was Howard Hawks. It also won an Oscar.






Because of the constant noise in the planes air crews wore "throat mics." These had two pickups that sat against the larynx (vocal cords) and picked the sound up directly from them. You will notice that whenever a crew member speaks he puts his hand up against the mic and presses it against his throat. This helped ensure good sound pickup.

Early in the film, an analyst is shown using a period-era teletype machine and a Hollerith punched card typewriter. This was very high-tech stuff for the time. Such devices became standard equipment on early digital computers, which were under development as this film was being produced in 1943. The punched card deck in particular became an essential component of so-called batch processing of large amounts of data, and for making hard copy of computer programs that could be rapidly (for the era) loaded into another computer.

The U.S. Army Air Forces aircraft that appeared in the film were:

Ten Boeing B-17B/C/D Flying Fortresses from Hendricks Field, Sebring, Florida.
North American AT-6 Texans (as Japanese fighters) and Bell P-39 Airacobras, Curtiss P-40Cs and Republic P-43A Lancers from Drew Field.
Six Martin B-26C Marauders from MacDill Field, Tampa, Florida, as the Japanese bombers.

[walpurgis]

Well, It looks like 'Farscape' is back on the box. Monday 6.00pm on Horror Channel.

Looking forward to that, it was the best Sci-Fi series ever! Scorpius was the best baddie ever and Chiana (Gigi Edgley) was gorgeous.

I see many folk feel the same judging by user reviews on IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0187636...ws?ref_=tt_urv

[Macca]

might give that a watch, people were always recommending it to me.

[Pigmy Pony]

The Avengers, "The Superlative Seven" (1967). Charlotte Rampling looking good in her cowboy outfit. But Emma Peel's fight scenes are the main draw, always make me smile.

[Macca]

The Avengers, "The Superlative Seven" (1967). Charlotte Rampling looking good in her cowboy outfit. But Emma Peel's fight scenes are the main draw, always make me smile.

could never decide between Emma Peel and Tara King.

[Pigmy Pony]

Emma Peel for me, but you were born ten years later than me, so Tara probably more of your time. But really, either would do, I'm not fussy.

[Pigmy Pony]

Emma Peel for me, but you were born ten years later than me, so Tara probably more of your time. But really, either would do, I'm not fussy.

ITV4 has it going on this morning - Avengers, Professionals, and now Minder. Shame I'm having to play records, but I have the room to myself, so making the most of it.

[Macca]

Emma Peel for me, but you were born ten years later than me, so Tara probably more of your time. But really, either would do, I'm not fussy.

No I was only one year old when the Tara King episodes were shown, I didn't see them until they were repeated in the 1980s.

It's her eyes that do it for me.

ITV4 has all the proper telly these days, and to a lesser extent Forces TV. Although Horror channel is showing The Prisoner at the moment (edit: and proper Star Trek).

[struth]

diana rigg was my no 1 over ms thorston

[Macca]

It's that hooded thing with her eyes, I'm a sucker for that, and for overbites: