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ken in texas

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• Feb 18, 2009

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Just saw the movie Pancho Barnes set in middle thirtys and forties.Saw a M Farmall in earlu forties,and a MM four or five star set in the early forties.Thought that didn,t match up right.Has anybody seen any of those wrong time props in movie or tv shows.Had some nice 40 to 47 ford coupes and convertables.

 

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ken in texas

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• Feb 18, 2009

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Sorry the farmall was set in early thirtes.

 

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GeneMO

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• Feb 18, 2009

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Pancho Barnes the flyer?


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Anonymous-0

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• Feb 18, 2009

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I saw one in "Second Hand Lions". I think the movie was set in late 50's early 60's. Anyhow, in more than scene there were big round bales along the fence line.

I always wondered about one on Bonanza or Gunsmoke. Someone feeds a small square bale. I think both shows are set around 1880 so not sure if any balers yet or not.

 

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Anonymous-0

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• Feb 19, 2009

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Back in the 1960's, we were still using haystacks..

 

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Anonymous-0

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• Feb 19, 2009

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The movie 'Road to Perdition' is set in the late 20's or maybe the early thirties and there is a quick shot of a tractor driving down the road... on rubber tires.

I think A/C developed rubber tires for tractors in '36? I haven't heard of anybody retrofitting tractor to rubber tires until they were tried and proven in the late 30's. Around '38 or '39...

 

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thurlow

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• Feb 19, 2009

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In "Bonnie and Clyde", there was something wrong about the hay bales shown; as I recall they were big round bales.

 

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John S-B

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• Feb 19, 2009

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I've seen a lot of wrong military hardware in movies, especially the duece and a half's. In Rambo, that truck is '50's vintage with the single rears. And I think they used a Sherman tank in The Blues Brothers.

 

Blackhole49

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• Feb 19, 2009

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I don't remember if it was Cleopatra or the Ten Commandments, but there were contrails in the sky.

 

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Jeff-oh

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• Feb 19, 2009

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Yea, Last night on the TV show "Life on Mars" They use the term Lockdown. It has been the catch phrase all week to promote the show. Has bugged me all week because the Phrase Lockdown this building was not used in the common vernacular prior to the Columbine HS shootings. Prior to that it was only used in prisons.

Show is set in 1973.

 

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Bill(Wis)

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• Feb 19, 2009

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There were stationary balers around the turn of the century.

 

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Gordon in IN

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• Feb 19, 2009

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In the movie "Cleopatra" one of the "spearmen" was wearing a wristwatch.

 

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lucas boy

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• Feb 19, 2009

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in the movie troy,there is an airplane in the sky when b pitt raided the temple.

 

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Tramway Guy

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• Feb 19, 2009

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There are tons of these types of things, there is a web site devoted to the topic.
Check the Wizard of Oz, then watch the movie sometime. You will be surprised at how much is overlooked..
Movie Mistakes

 

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rrlund

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• Feb 19, 2009

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Yea,I remember one episode of Bonanza where somebody had snookered everybody out of their cattle for next to nothing. Ben went and got some money and hit the road. Came back and told the guy that the cattle would starve before he got them to (wherever it was he was taking them) because he had just traveled the whole route and bought every bale of hay between here and there.

 

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Bob Kerr

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• Feb 19, 2009

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I think there may have been square balers then but they would have been hand powered. Saw a very old one once, was a wooden box that opened with latches on one side to get the bales out and had a plunger deal on top with a long handle. Now that would have been a LONG day! Some of the newer westerns if you look real close you can see power lines in the distance they didn't take out of the film. Con trails are also spotted once in a while.

 

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JMS/.MN

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• Feb 19, 2009

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Right- that was my contribution here, until I read yours. The were big round bales, and the movie was set in the 30s.

 

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RayP(MI)

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• Feb 19, 2009

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Let's face it, unless you're pretty sharp on tractors and farming, (as most here are,) the hollywood gang is going to screw up with regular regularity!

 

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Eric SEI

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• Feb 19, 2009

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There were hay presses around here in the mid 1800s, they would ship hay to New Orleans. I have no idea what the hay looked like when they shipped it by flat boat. The flat boats were broken up and sold for lumber too.

I remember an article in the county paper about one of the hay presses still sitting in a barn near the river.