Reel To Reel In Movies

The Akai M-7 has the tape directly from the left reel to the right without going thru the tape path. In the scene it runs too fast.

Very rare the 707s in black. I think they were made only for the US Deparment of Defense.

3 & 4- Ep."Inside out": Nagra IV-L

The 2nd pic of the 909 has the "maxell" lettering covered with a black tape so that the brand name can't be watched. The same occurs with the "pioneer" lettering in the top left of the head cover.

But the "Pioneer" in the PR-101 10" metal reel it's impolute.

In the movie, Ford Fairlane turns on the Otari with a wireless remote control.

The 'beast' it's spinning at 30 ips.

In the first scene captured, a conversation it's being recorded without cuts. In less than 2 minutes, from the beginning to end, there's a lot of tape recorded. It seems that someone forgot to stop and rewing the ReVox during bloopers.

It appears two times in a projection in the set during the "Music" song.

In the 4th scene, it's supossed that the girl puts and threads the tape into the B77, but it's not shown in the movie. Too much fast to be real.

"Math on tape is hard to follow, so: Please Listen Carefully".

The 2nd pic shows how was done the tape loop used in the beginning of "Money"

The Nagra is used to record the worries and confessions of THX-1138.

"SONY" lettering in the tape head covered with a black tape.

The X1000-R is recording, but, how about the red leds?.

The 707s are also recording and this time the red leds are shining.
Beautiful original Pioneer PR-85 light 7" metal reels in the left unit.

What a waste of tape to record at 15 ips with the R8 in 7" reels for conversations purpose.
2nd pic isn't a Sony TC-800B like the one used by Nixon White House to record the Watergate tapes.

Very rare. A N-4504 (dutch machine) in Queens (N.Y.) supposed to have been bought new in 1988!.

URSS. The 60's. A nuclear submarine. A german "tonbandgërate" there with BASF tapes?.
Soviets had his own brands.

There's a conversation in the movie about why to use such a big recorder.

Left reel in the 1st pic, and right reel in the 2nd are BASF (possibly LP35) and have the brand name occulted. Also, the tape isn't threaded in the 1st image.

Great shoots, even in the 3rd and 4th pics are shown vintage 7" Ampex reel boxes, possible 372 or 373 tapes.

The model data says that it was raised in 1954. Good positioned in time, because the action occurs in 1955. The question is, was this Grundig exported to the USA?.
Anyway, Christopher Lloyd uses it to record and he press the correct button.

The action occurs in Paldiski, Estonia, a very rare place to find a RT-707 colored in black as units used by US Forces.

With the original Dokorder reels and adapters.

Speakers seems to be greater than the original ones that came with the Sony TC-630.

Beautiful big set of surround decks with original reels and adaptors.

The difficult pic is the 2nd. It seems to be a Pioneer, but not sure.

Uhers Universal 5000 are controled at the same time with an external devide, also sincronized with the big Ampex which is recording at 15 ips.
Grundig 244 HiFi is difficult to recognize, but you can watch the Grundig logo in the 11th pic.

Spinning at 1 7/8 ips.

The deck is turned on, but not tape in the reel tables, just empty reels in both sides.

The Nagra is in the top left over the Studer B62..

It appears with the original Technics 10" reel and NAB adapters.

Action occurs in 1972-1974 and the ReVox B77 was introduced in 1977. The one pictured is the mark 2 (1981). In picture 3 you can see the tape brand in the right reel (left one in the pic), BASF. This type of reel design (three holes rounded in the external part and square in inner part) is from the 90ths, probably 911 type.
The left reel (Ampex) and NAB hub adapters (ReVox) are correctly dated. In 4th pic can be watched that channel selector is in "mono" position and the deck is really recording (the two red leds light).

Deck it's spinning at 7.5 ips and have the original Teac RE-1002 metal reel in the left side.

The action occurs in 1941 during the german fly attack over London in WWII. Great mistake, the W.V.B. is from 1963. It can handle until 8 1/2" reels, have two speeds, 3.75 and 7.5 ips and weights 30 k!!!.

It's very similar to Apolec RA-11 and also to Aiwa TP-32A, but isn't any of these two.
Unfortunatelly it was used in the film to make a parody of "Mission: Impossible".

The tape played in both decks maybe it's the same, a 13 cms. Scotch reel.

Light blue model

The head cover is missing showing the silver color of the head block.
Very curious that the reels have the Dharma Corporation logo.

The tape isn't threaded correctly, it doesn't pass by the tension arms.
Curious is the hard-to-find original Dokorder 7" metal reel.