Good Morning Vietnam Error

[davidsrsb]

Watching Good Morning Vietnam, I am sure I see a SME 3009 SII Improved detachable headshell arm.
In 1965?

 

[Michael J]

https://www.tonepublications.com/old-school/sme-3009-tonearm/
SME 3009/I, 1959, steel arm tube, removable headshell.
SME 3009/II, 1963, aluminium arm, removable headshell.
SME 3009/II improved, 1973 on, removable or fixed headshell.

Are you quite sure that it was not a 3009/II ?

 

[Tony L]

1965 would be a ‘split-weight‘ Series II.

 

[davidsrsb]

Robin Williams cues the record and I don't see the split weight.
The film was made in 1987, so finding the correct model would have been an effort

 

[lilolee]

Watching Good Morning Vietnam, I am sure I see a SME 3009 SII Improved detachable headshell arm.
In 1965?

Nerd, you need to get out more....oh wait!

 

[RJohan]

Of course, not uncommon. The movie 'The Bank Job' is set in 1971, yet you can clearly see a Revox B77 flicking by.

 

[Beobloke]

"The Boat that Rocked" had either Gates or Russco turntables (correct) on the pirate radio ship, but with ADC ALT-1 tonearms (only about 20 years too early!)

 

[Arkless Electronics]

"The Boat that Rocked" had either Gates or Russco turntables (correct) on the pirate radio ship, but with ADC ALT-1 tonearms (only about 20 years too early!)

Yeah i noticed that! Fun film anyway though.

 

[Craig B]

Tonearms were period correct; not that an American military radio station would have been running Garrard/SME, mind. Equipment was all American; with sources typically a single Gates CB77, two cart machines, and one reel-to-reel.

Hollywood:

Reality: