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The Binocular in "The Bridge on the River Kwai."
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<blockquote data-quote="James Bean" data-source="post: 2355585" data-attributes="member: 64331"><p>'Ceasar': Sorry, but I don't have any information to even part-answer your question! </p><p>Yet I'm glad this thread "binoculars in movies" has been resurrected because it gives me a good excuse to ask if anyone can confirm a suspicion I have about a scene in the 1976 film "Midway". If I remember rightly, Rear Admiral Spruance (Glenn Ford) and Captain Browning (Biff McGuire) are on the bridge of the aircraft carrier "USS Lexington" using binoculars which are not the usual 'US Navy' pattern (don't have the typical Bausch and Lomb curvy shape) but more like Zeiss-type, flat prism-plate, post-war mass-produced Japanese models. Is it my imagination, or can the word 'Japan' in white lettering be seen on the main hinge cap? This movie is well known for 'goofs' and borrowing footage from elsewhere (Tora, Tora, Tora!) although I still found it entertaining to watch...</p><p>Can anyone confirm or otherwise what I suspect is another bloomer(UK)/blooper(USA)? </p><p>Or am I just a hopeless case?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="James Bean, post: 2355585, member: 64331"] 'Ceasar': Sorry, but I don't have any information to even part-answer your question! Yet I'm glad this thread "binoculars in movies" has been resurrected because it gives me a good excuse to ask if anyone can confirm a suspicion I have about a scene in the 1976 film "Midway". If I remember rightly, Rear Admiral Spruance (Glenn Ford) and Captain Browning (Biff McGuire) are on the bridge of the aircraft carrier "USS Lexington" using binoculars which are not the usual 'US Navy' pattern (don't have the typical Bausch and Lomb curvy shape) but more like Zeiss-type, flat prism-plate, post-war mass-produced Japanese models. Is it my imagination, or can the word 'Japan' in white lettering be seen on the main hinge cap? This movie is well known for 'goofs' and borrowing footage from elsewhere (Tora, Tora, Tora!) although I still found it entertaining to watch... Can anyone confirm or otherwise what I suspect is another bloomer(UK)/blooper(USA)? Or am I just a hopeless case? [/QUOTE]
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