| MORSE GOES TO THE MOVIES! |
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| Ice Cold In Alex | German spy (Quayle), posing as a South Afrikaan Captain, uses a wireless Morse transmitter to send position of British Red Cross vehicle to Germans while crossing desert | John Mills, Anthony Quayle, Sylvia Sims | J Lee Thompson | 1958 | N |
| Ill Met By Moonlight (UK Title: Night Ambush) | short Morse signal lamps .update: It features the wonderful line: "Sandy, do you know morse?"-"Morse who?" | Dirk Bogarde | Michael Powell | 1957 | Y update Rhabyn S Title update: Steve C |
| In Harm's Way | two short Morse signal lamps . several sound and visual scenes with TTY & morse in background | John Wayne, Kirk Douglas | Otto Preminger | 1965 | Y |
| In Space | TV Series (Sci-Fi Channel) Morse telemetry is heard from a HAM radio satellite & also downlink Morse from a HAM station | - | - | 1997 | na George B, WA5HRC |
| Independence Day | military was sending battle plans using old Navy knob brass key - the Morse was intercepted by ham ops & revealed that a major military response was coming | Judd Hirsch | Roland Emmerich | 1996 | Y update, Ron H AH6RH |
| Indiana Jones & The Last Crusade | to escape & undo the ropes holding Indy & his dad in chairs, Indy hits the fireplace's secret latch & the entire hearth & fireplace wall rotates 180 degrees around where they now face into the German communications room where Morse is being transmitted in the background | Harrison Ford, Sean Connery | Steven Spielberg | 1989 | Y Dwight, W6AR |
| Inside The Third Reich | very brief scene near end where Hitler & staff are walking into bunker you can hear faint Morse & German op receiving code | Rutger Hauer, Derek Jacob, Jogn Gielgud | Marvin J Chomsky | 1982 | Y |
| Inspector Morse | TV Series on A&E | John Thaw | Peter Hammond & many others | 1991-6 | N Bryan T N8OOF & Gladys/Greg F |
| Iron Butterfly | Music - instrumental song by Psychedelic music group Iron Butterly on their Heavy album released 1968-title is Iron Butterfly Theme-at the end of the song the organist taps out "I love You" in Morse code | Iron Butterfly Group | Label: Atco Catalog: #33-227 Release yr:1968 | 1968 | Y Frank S, AC3P |
| Iron Horse | TV Series - several scenes in various episodes with morse from private car (portable), trackside & in stations with agents wearing correct dress | Dale Robertson, Gary Collins, Ellen Burstyn | Samuel Fuller | 1966-68 | N |
| Iron Horse, The | restored movie version - when historic message "DONE" is sent to President Grant it signifies the Transcontinental railroad is finished, the piano plays it in International Code | George O'Brien, Madge Bellamy | Cecil B. DeMille | 1924 | ? Richard W, KW0U |
| Jeugdjournaal | On Dutch TV (Nederland 3), everyday there's news special for children ; bet'n newsreels there is some badly keyed morse code | - | - | 2003 | N Arno - PE1RDP - Sittard/NL - JO21WA |
| Johnny Got His Gun | a soldier goes off to fight in WWI & is horribly wounded; in order to communicate with the outside world he uses Morse code in a most "unusual" manner ever appearing in a film (film not for the faint of heart) | Timothy Bottoms, Marsha Hunt, Donald Sutherland | Dalton Trumbo | 1971 | Y Richard S |
| Johnstown Flood, The | flood warnings & emergency codes | Janet Gaynor, Florence Gilbert, George O'Brien | Irving Cummings | 1926 | Y |
| Journey Into Fear | code herd from speaker during scene in Turkish police stn | Joseph Cotton, Orson Welles | Norman Foster, Orson Welles | 1942 | Y Richard, KW0U |
| Journey To The Center Of The Earth (1959 Movies) | Mason & Boone are trapped in a feather bind when they hear tapping Morse Code / they try to decode & reply without luck / moments later they discover it is Gertrude the duck pecking at feed | James Mason, Pat Boone | Henry Levin | 1959 | Y |
| Kansas Pacific | two very readable scenes - 1: opening scenes from combi-car of sounder - 2: of Rebels listening in on the wire as supplies are ordered - however, in both scenes although the Morse is excellent, it does not relate to the actual messages being received / further, first movie to have a lady op but she only receives! / town op dressed with eye shades, sleeve protectors, pocket watch - looks great! | Sterling Hayden, Eve Miller, Barton MacLane | Ray Nazarro | 1953 | Y |
| Key, The | captain of a deep sea rescue tugboat during WWII must go out in a sub infested waters to rescue a merchant ship that does not know that it is supposed to maintain radio silence - clear code heard that goes well with the action | William Holden, Sophia Loren, Trevor Howard | Carol Reed | 1958 | Y Wilfred G |
| King of Alcatraz | Two R/O's assigned to cargo/passenger ship (rivals with the same YL) get a message that suspected criminal on board. Skipper checks but is hi-jacked by Naish (disguised as old lady). Crim. gets one R/O to radio back that all is ok onboard, but so as R/O sends the right message, gets the other R/O to copy down what is being sent; later the other R/O (Preston) is thrown down into the hold where there is a cargo of trucks. He yanks out the spark coil, finds some wire for an antenna, uses the truck battery and presto..a Spark Transmitter. The ops at the Coast Guard think that it's a prank, but it all works out. At one stage earlier in the Radio Room (after that confirming message was sent), there was a 'bang' from the transmitter & puff of smoke, Preston looked startled & shouted with alarm, "The plate circuit condenser's blown!" - Morse good but not in sync | Robert Preston, Lloyd Nolan and J Carroll Naish | ? | 1940s? | N Ted M VK2FLB |
| Khartoum | 3 short scenes with telegraph sound & straight key - Morse gibberish but effectively used in scenes | Charleton Heston, Laurence Olivier, Richard Johnson | Basil Dearden | 1966 | N |
| King Kong (1976 remake) | hear MAYDAY 3 times from radio room on board ship & Morse code in background in two scenes (fax scene also) | Jeff Bridges, Jessica Lang | John Guillermin | 1976 | Y Dwight, W6AR |
| Kraftwerk (German popgroup) | recorded an album 1976 called 'Radioactivity'. The second number is full of cw: RADIOACTIVITY IS IN THE AIR FOR YOU AND ME | - | - | 1976 | Y Arno - PE1RDP - Sittard/NL - JO21WA |
| Krakatoa, East of Java (aka Volcano) | when the volcano is about to blow a lighthouse keeper sends a message using a straight key | Maximilian Schell, Diane Baker, Brian Keith | Bernard Kowalski | 1969 | Y Richard W, KW0U |
| Lancer | TV Series - early episodes reportedly have odd town scene with Morse from railway station | Andrew Duggan | various (20th Century-Fox produces) | 1968-70 | ? |
| Laramie | TV Series - odd episode from stagecoach station | John Smith & Robert Fuller | various | 1959-63 | ? |
| Lawrence of Arabia | after the raid at Aqaba, Morse is heard briefly in the background; Lawrence then tests the circuit but it goes dead-"There's a pity!" | Peter O'Toole, Alec Guiness, Anthony Quayle, Omar Sharif | David Lean | 1962 | Y |
| Leon's Furniture | TV Commercial | ? | ? | Jan 1997 | n |
| Little House on the Praire | TV Series, odd episode / episode: "The Third Miracle" uses two good slow scenes of sounder & good reading - sounder though has an adjuster that wobbles making it look strange | Michael Landon | various | na | Y |
| Lloyds of London | To get messages during the Napoleonic Wars a Lloyds insurer (Power) invents what he calls a "telegraph." It's a series of telescopes that look at distant towers where messages are spelled out in big letters | Freddie Bartholomew, Guy Standing, Tyrone Power, Madeline Carroll | Henry King | 1936 | Y Richard W, KW0U |
| Live and Let Die | James Bond enters a hotel room & after using a gadget to sweep it for bugs (& finding some), opens the back of a hairbrush revealing an antenna & key; aiming it out the window he proceeds to tap out a message | Roger Moore, Jane Seymour, Yaphet Kotto | Guy Hamilton | 1973 | Y Ian B |
| London Ruft Nordpol (The House of Intrique) | 'North Pole' is a secret code word for an English spy who was captured by the Germans in WWII - lots of scenes with German & British CW ops at work & code - good scenes with receivers & transmitters also | Curd Juergens, albert Lieven, Dawn Addams, Rene Deltgen | Duilio Coletti | 1955 | ? Franz Matschl-Uhlig |
| Lonedale Operator, The | Silent film - scenes with opr& key | - | DW griffith | 1911 | ? Sara MacL |
| Long Voyage Home, The | Captain of the Glencairn signals Morse using flashlight (TGIID) | John Wayne, Barry Fitzgerald | John Ford | 1940 | Y |
| Longest Day, The | planes carrying paratroops signed invasion fleet with their lights
sending VVVV in Morse also the tympani, using a pedal point, beats out V throughout film & 2 clear but short scenes with Morse signal lamp while at sea | John Wayne, Robert Michum | Ken Annakin, Andrew Marton, Bernhard Wicki | 1963 | Y Wayne R, AB5PQ |
| Looking Glass War | Interesting use of code groups as background while bureaucrats discuss the doomed spy sending them. They become more musical and turn into a scream as man is shot | Christopher Jones, Pia Degemark, Ralph Richardson, Anthony Hopkins | Frank Pierson | 1970 | Y Richard W, KW0U |
| Looney Tunes | episode with Coyote & Road Runner where the Coyote Builds a Robot and he communicates with it via Morse Code. The machine the Coyote holds automatically generates the code | Road Runner, Wiley Coyote | various | na | Y Rodger P, VE6AFI |
| Lost Express | group of men kidnap the president of a railroad and hold him prisoner on a deserted siding | Helen Holmes | Lewis Film Service | 1940 | N |
| Lost Liners | History Television (Canada) - some excellent static photographics of Titantic morse radio room and Empress of Ireland - morse sound effect poor but can hear SS or SO(s?) | docudrama | Bob Ballard (National Geographic) | 1997 | Y |
| Lost Squadron | PBS Documentary - SOS sent in Morse from a lost squadron that crash lands on a Greenland ice field during WWII | Narr:Neal Moore; pilot of P38 Frank Scheide, Harry Smith | writer/producer: Larry Foley | 1997 | N George B, WA5HRC |
| Lost In Space | remake movie of TV series - one scene has Dr Smith pounding DANGER (in accurate but poor morse timing!) on pipe to Will; Will's 'robot' says "...sounds like old Morse code..." | William Hurt, Heather Graham, Mimi Rogers | Stephen Hopkins | 1998 | Y |
| Lusitania: Murder On The Atlantic | A&E Documentary . telegram: SUBMARINE ACTIVE OFF SOUTH SHORE OF COAST OF IRELAND & straight key seen working wireless but dubbing Morse gibberish . telegram: SUBMARINE 5 MILES SOUTH OF CAPE CLEAR PROCEEDING WEST WHEN SIGHTED AT 10 AM -Morse also gibberish . bug scene with gibberish code - sent: COME AT ONCE. STRONG LIST. POSTION 10 MILES SOUTH KINSDALE . late scene shows Captain in water and a naval(?) straight key with SOS effect (only accurate sound) | actual survivors interviewed | Mary Jo Peltier | 1997 | Y |
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of QST Amateur Radio Magazine, April 1997, Page 58 |
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