| MORSE GOES TO THE MOVIES! |
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| U571 | several morse scenes of good morse - one scene has the German Captain, chained to a pipe, tapping morse out "MY NAME IS U571 KILL ME" | Matthew McConaughey, Bill Paxton, Harvey Keitel, Jon Bon Jovi | Jonathan Mostow | 2000 | NY Ryan B, RCI |
| U869 | docudrama of nazi uboat U869 - excellent details on Enigma & Ultra morse decoding - first actual scene of black American using morse navy signal lamp! - excellent sound, scenes - exciting video | actual people | Alan Ritsko | 2000 | N |
| U-Boats | History Television Canada Series - Part 1 & 3 - Morse radio
communication with excellent & readable Morse scenes & sound
dubbing . "Strange Intelligence" by HC Bywater discussed & how German U-boats able to fix British ships with own book & code . signals from subs sent only while on surface . excellent discussion on 'Enigma' decoder several brief/fast scenes with Morse signal lamps | - | Nigel Turner | 1997 | N |
| Union Pacific | - | Barbara Stanwyck | Cecil B DeMille | 1939 | Y |
| Union Pacific | TV Series - set along the right-of-way of the UP | Jeff Morrow, Judd Pratt | various | 1958 | ? (Morse use likely but not confirmed) |
| Up Periscope | . radioman copies message announcing promotion of all Ensigns
25000-30000 - actual code: WSC VX2IEO 2J000AE . Garner is secretly photographing a codebook message while message comes in and op acks with MSG | James Garner | Gordon Douglas | 1959 | Y update Donald C AA3EK, & John Y WD0FPY |
| Vanished. The Plane That Disappeared | Docudrama of 1947 plane the 'StarDust' that disappeared & later rediscovered 53 years late - plane reenactment of sending last meaningless message in partial good code 'S T E N D E C' but has not been discovered what it means | - | Jon Renouf | 2000 | N |
| Villa Rides | two scenes with Morse and telegrams (some good train scenes) | Yul Brynner, Robert Mitchem, Charles Bronson | Buzz Kulik | 1968 | Y Joe B. N3TTE |
Vertical Limits |
the main character is able to communicate with his sister who was trapped under snow because of an avalanche using Morse | Chris O'Donnell, Bill Paxton, Annie Garrett | Martin Campbell, Roger Vernon | 1968 | N N Thomas |
Vertical Limits (remake) |
the main character is able to communicate with his sister who was trapped under snow because of an avalanche using Morse - Morse gibberish and poorly done | Scott Glenn, Robin Tunney, Bill Paxton | Martin Campbell | 2000 | Y |
Victory At Sea |
Various segments of TV documentary Morse code is mimicked inaccurately by various musical instruments | - | various | 1980s | Y Mick S |
| Vimy: Birth of a Nation | excellent mini-series of Canadian troops and capture of Vimy Ridge
during WWI - in Part 2-'Gas' close up of badly 'tuned' key & message
sent: GERMANS USE GAS TO AFFIXIATE . Canadian officer seen in 2 segments sending S M L (actor sends each letter with arm at least a foot off knob) | vintage WWI film clips - HistoryTV (Canada) | Peter Hollingsworth Johnson | 1996 | Y |
| Volcano | SEE: Krakatoa, East of Java | - | - | - | - |
| Viva Maria! | Nervous telegrapher captured by revolutionaries. Also arms of cross on church start moving as a semaphore | Brigette Bardot, Jeanne Moreau, George Hamilton | Louis Malle | 1965 | Y Richard W. KW0U |
| Von Ryan's Express | when the train passes Milano Station without stopping, the station master signals to the command center with a straight key and uses Morse code | Frank Sinatra, Trevor Howard | Mark Robson | 1965 | Y Dan S, AA70A |
| Voyage of the Damned | wireless Morse used to relay message to Captain of the St. Louis about troubles in Havana | Oskar Werner, Faye Dunaway, Orsen Wells | Stuart Rosenberg | 1976 | Y |
| Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (Movie) | in order to launch a special atomic missile into a ring of fire on the earth's surface, Sparks, the radioman, must contact the President to get authority to launch - while calling on voice radio a lot of Morse is heard in the background | Walter Pidgeon, Joan Fontaine, Barbara Eden | Irwin Allen | 1961 | Y Dwight, W6AR |
| Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea | TV Series - Morse used in a few episodes - *update episode* one of the crew on the sub was inhabited by an imposter & somebody's hand started beating out Morse Code revealing the presence of an imposter | Richard Basehart | various | 1964-68 | N Dan S, AA70A update Kathryn M |
| (Recording) Voyager Spacecraft Mission | the phonograph record placed aboard the Voyager Spacecraft, which has left our solar system, contains Morse Code! For further details: Scroll down/click on 'Sounds' | - | - | - | N Dan S, AA70A |
| Wackiest Ship In The Army, The | . blinker: shore to sailboat & boat to shore . CW: at old coast watcher location . CW: sailboat radios enemy convoy position | Jack Lemmon, Ricky Nelson, John Lund | Richard Murphy | 1960 | Y John Y, WD0FPY |
| Wagon Train | TV Series, odd episode | Ward Bond | Herschel Daugherty | 1957-58 | Y |
| Wake Island | telegrapher sending message (SOS started) during Japanese invasion but
is killed .(updates) brief Morse sound by 'Sparks' about Japanese bombing Pearl Harbour . two brief Japanese Morse signal lamp scenes . Morse: 6TH ENEMY ATTACK 27 JAP BOMBERS IN DIVISION OF US OVERHEAD AT 1030 | Brian Donlevy, Macdonald Carey, Robert Preston, William Bendix | John Farrow | 1948 | Y Les B updates RGB |
| Walter Winchell | - | Walter Winchell (A&E Biography) | Alison Guss | 1996 | Y |
| Wag The Dog | In one scene, William Schumann plays a fabricated "military operative" left behind in the Albanian theater of conflict, & White House staffers try to drum up public support while the diplomats & military try to bring him home / In a public PR photo, Schumann is wearing a sweater with Morse Code torn into it supposedly saying "Courage Mom" | Dustin Hoffman, Robert deNiro | Barry Levinson | 1997 | N/A Ron H, AH6RH |
| War Lover, The | two short scenes where navigator using Morse wireless during US bomber raid over Germany | Steve McQueen, Robert Wagner | Philip Leacock | 1962 | Y |
| War Stories - Spies | Simply "the best" documentary with Morse on HistoryTelevison (Canada) - contains accurate Morse sound, scenes of many women operators receiving coded messages, Radio Detection vans, wireless - incredibly EXCELLENT | the real operator people who were spies & agents that lived & also a list of many others killed by the Gestapo | Jonathan Lewis (producer) | 1997 | N |
| War Wagon, The | Douglas breaks the telegraph wire/using his gun barrel he taps out a message /ISEMGP/ (jibberish-message received says wire down in El Paso) | John Wayne, Kirk Douglas | Burt Kennedy | 1967 | Y |
| We Dive At Dawn |
| John Mills | Anthony Asquith | 1943 | Y |
| Weapons At War - Special Forces | . soldier seen with straight key strapped to his leg sending Morse -
told that US Army Special Forces are cross trained in different things,
one being Morse Code at 12 wpm . another scene where show portable suitcase radio used during WWII in southern France & being used to send code to agent in Algiers | History Channel Documentary | ? | 1995? | ? Dwight "Dewey," W6AR |
| Wells Fargo aka: Tales of Wells Fargo | TV Series | Dale Robertson | various | 1957-1962 | ? |
| Wells Fargo | good several visual scenes of morse and story - story includes passenger, mail & express transportation | Joel McCrea, Bob Burns, Frances Dee, Lloyd Nolan | Paramount Pictures | 1940 | N |
| Western Union | story about the laying of Western Union telegraph lines from Nebraska to Utah in the 1860s | Robert Young, Randolph Scott, Dean Jagger | Fritz Lang | 1941 | Y Roger B |
| Where Are All The UFOs? | A&E Special - Morse V used as a break & lead-in into an actual radio news clip on the Air Force press release announcing they found a crashed space craft at Roswell | various | - | 1997 | Y Ron H, AH6RH |
| Whiskey Galore | - | Basil Radford | ? | 1949 | N |
| Whispering Smith | - | Alan Ladd | Leslie Fenton, Mel Epstein | 1948 | ? |
| Wild Bill Hickok | TV Series - some town episodes | Guy Madison, Andy Devine | various | 1951-1958 | ? |
| Wild Wild West (Movie) | movie take-off of Wild Wild West TV Series - only one short scene with morse signal lamp with two poor flashes | Will Smith, Kevin Kline, Kenneth Branagh | Barry Sonnenfeld | 1999 | Y |
| Wild Wild West Revisited | Loveless Jr. exchanges signals via heliograph with his agents who set off an atomic bomb - code wasn't clear | Robert Conrad, Ross Martin | Burt Kennedy | 1979 | N Richard W, KW0U |
| Wild West | some morse, weak | Eddie Dean | Robert Emmett Tansey | 1946 | Y |
| Wild, Wild West, The | TV Series, (update) in episode 'The Night of the Janus' (airdate 02/14/69), Jeremy Pike discovers a wax-roll phonograph with a 'catchy tune' - when he winds the unit up the 'tune' is actually a Morse code message (note: multi-tone tune turns into a mono-tone Morse code message!) | Robert Conrad | Various Production run #96 | 1965-70 | Y update from Ron H, AH6RH via Jim-n-Artie (More Wild West Info) |
| Winchell | several scenes with Winchell using bug but all gibberish - no style! | Stanley Tucci, Glenne Headley, Christopher Plummer | Paul Mazursky | 1996 | N |
| Wind At My Back | TV Series on CBC TV, odd episode | Shirley Douglas, Tyrone Savage | Various | 1996-7 | N |
| Wing and a Prayer | Several scenes in operations and code rooms with Morse in background. Also ships send blinker messages. Incidentally this is a damn good film about carrier pilots in WW2 | Don Ameche, Dana Andrews, William Eythe, Charles Bickford | Henry Hathaway | 1944 | Y Richard W. KW0U |
| Wish Me Luck | Dramatic British TV Series about WWII British spies based on real-life stories of women civilian spies in British SOE - various episodes have Morse sending & receiving (some quite accurate, others gibberish) | Kate Buffery, Suzanna Hamilton, Julian Glover | Bill Hays | 1989 | ? |
| World At War: Wolf Pack | Allies use shortwave direction finding on U-boat CW transmissions to counter the wolf packs - a bit of code is heard | - | various | 1974 | Y (many episodes) George B, WA5HRC |
| Wyoming Mail | an imprisoned telegrapher keeps busy by teaching American Morse - several railroad telegraph system scenes | Stephen McNally, Alexis Smith | Reginald Le Borg | 1950 | N Richard W, KW0U |
| X-Files | Click link for great details about this upcoming show! | - | 2002? | N Ron H, AH6RH |
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| Young Tom Edison | Continental Morse used in two scenes - code unknown | Mickey Rooney, Fay Bainter, George Bancroft, Chris Bevan | Norman Taurog | 1940 | Y Stan W5JYK |
| YYZ (Audio CD) | YYZ is an instrumental rock music piece by RUSH - opening part of song has Morse letters YYZ as its rhythmical beat pattern (also for Pearson International Airport, Toronto) | Polygram Records, track 3, "Moving Pictures", BarCode 0422-800048-28 | RUSH | 1981 | Y (audio CD) Chad, K06TT |
| Zeppelin | the hero spy (York) breaks into the Zeppelin's shack to send an SK message. When the opr returns & hears a CW confirmation, York beats him to death, then throws him overboard | Michael York, Elke Sommer, Peter | Etienne Perier | 1971 | Y Richard W, KW0U |
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