jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

I watch a lot of science videos on YouTube, and many of them use stock footage. One series of that stock video has people using a small iMac keyboard as if it were a tablet. These are unprocessed screen shots from the video.

burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

Hilarious! Typical, though.

Frank Zappa wrote about that sort of thing in a 1973 song called, “Cheepnis.”

Live, at the Roxy in Hollywood:

https://youtu.be/ckEP8KN2710

DickC Loc: NE Washington state

That's just one of the many things they phony up!!

mflowe Loc: Port Deposit, MD

I used to get upset about stuff like this, then I realized these idiots live in their pretend world isolated in their Hollywood bubble and never come in contact with the "common" man.
I think even funnier than the keyboard thing, is when the hero and villain are fighting it out on the top floor of a building under construction, and the bad guy picks up a pneumatic nailer as a weapon and starts shooting nails through the air without being hooked up to the air hose. SMH

lamiaceae Loc: San Luis Obispo County, CA

That is a great album. Zappa was genius! He managed to be critical of everyone and everything.

burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

I have a lot of his music in my vinyl collection from the past. His breadth and depth of musical genres and styling was amazing.

Frank was equally adept at directing Howard Kaylan and Mark Volman (The Turtles, The Phlorescent Leech & Eddie) to do outrageous comedy bits with the Mothers of Invention, then turning around and telling celebrated orchestra conductor, Zubin Mehta, to "Hit it, Zubin!" when the orchestra played his own works.

lamiaceae Loc: San Luis Obispo County, CA

Nice. I have a good amount of Zappa vinyl too. Not as much as you seem to have but a good number of LPs.

Red6

I worked in the electronics manufacturing industry building advanced electronic circuit boards. Our inspection station operators used large lighted magnifiers to inspect the completed circuit boards. Unlike a binocular microscope, these did not have separate eyepieces but had a large viewing screen with a wide field of view and were very futuristic looking. They were mounted on a swiveling articulated arm over the operator's workspace.

Imagine my surprise one day while watching a sci-fi movie, the crewmen on the bridge of a spaceship were using these as some sort of scanner, watching it and reporting whatever they were supposed to be seeing.

Later while at an industry tradeshow I asked the representative from the company that built the magnifiers if he knew their devices were used in the movies. He said that he did and that they had sold quite a few to be used as props in movies and different shows. However, he said those sold as props were just the shells and all the internal optics were missing. Often the prop people would put lights, usually green, inside to shine outward toward the actor.

medphotog Loc: Witness protection land

I met him once. Interesting to talk to, really nice guy.

rmalarz Loc: Tempe, Arizona

In the movie "Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon" they used an Omega Enlarger as prop for the bomb sight. I couldn't help but chuckle when I saw that.
--Bob

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

Funny.

In a James Bond movie, they showed a satellite dish opening while in orbit. That dish was actually a flash gun unfolding. I recognized it right away because I had one at the time.

lamiaceae Loc: San Luis Obispo County, CA

I had a folding one similar to yours pictured. Never used it, it came with a bunch of photo stuff I obtained.

srg

Maybe it was a battery operated. Regardless, it won't fire unless you press down on it.

RodeoMan Loc: St Joseph, Missouri

Zappa probably was a genius, but somehow I wasn't able to connect with his 200 Motels, probably a failure of my appreciative skills.

M1911 Loc: DFW Metromess

I read somewhere that the bombsight used in the movie 30 seconds over Tokyo was actually an Omega D series enlarger.