Braun alarm clock question

[jameth]

Anyone got a model number and or good screen caps.

Thanks

[andy]

Here is one thread that IIRC names the model number of the clock (AB 1)...

http://propsummit.com/viewtopic.php?t=750&start=0

Abdy

[jameth]

Sweet. Thanks

[jameth]

Thanks again Andy. I had seen that thread a while back and forgotten about it.

Tom

[jameth]

Everything on Ebay has AB1A. Anyone know what the A is for?

[andy]

I have a couple of the AB1A's...the AB1 seems to be harder to find, but common enough in the movie . Supposedly they were being made again, but I may be wrong.

Andy

[andy]

It turns out I have AB1's, and they are not the ones used in the film. I know Nickdarring was the expert on these. Let me double check some stuff online and see if I can for sure tell which one was used. It does seem like multiple ones were used though, but one was used more than all the others.

Andy

[andy]

According to Nick it looks like it might be a Braun AG, type 4 821...

http://www.therpf.com/f9/blade-runner-web-props-original-pics-updated-507/

Ceck out the rest of his thread. Nick's research is the may be the the best, first of it's kind, and is certainly the foundation of everything we do here now. Thanks go out to him for setting me on my path here.

Andy

[jameth]

[jameth]

[Vader]

[joberg]

I did my own research on the Esper (trying to finalize it all has been an ordeal...specially the "T.V." part ) Jameth and Nick are right: two different clocks were used.

[jameth]

Even if you can never know for sure the other model you can find a Braun that would look just like the film. I'm not sure how they determined the model of the other one. The size is right but I can't see any indication of the markings on it. Maybe they covered them up??

The problem, as in I don't want to build it, is the TV. But I think is was built from a TV and not a complete set used. Have not found anything that even looks close. I guess just use the flash to determine the size of the screen. Get a TV and remove it from it's box, build a custom box and there you go.

[andy]

I don't think it was a standard TV. The screen part with bezel looks to be the same one used in the spinner, and in the simple version of the Esper, just rotated. We might just be looking for just a monitor as a found part here.

Andy

[jameth]

Another idea for the "VCR".

http://cgi.ebay.com/Vintage-Webcor-car-stereo-cassette-made-Japan-/300579141222?pt=Car_Audio_In_Dash_Receivers&hash=item45fbe9b666#ht_3042wt_1185

[andy]

I am pretty sure by the size of the "Cassette" insert door, it is less than 6" wide, and would be the same size as a typical car stereo.

Other things from that era, I have been looking at are of course the CED and Laser video disc players, Laminators, dot matrix printers, Paste-up waxers for Graphic design comps...and the list goes on.

Andy

[jameth]

It has to be a CED

look at these:

http://www.cedmagic.com/museum/ced-player-guide/ced-player-guide.html

On the fake Esper it has what looks like a larger slot for bigger discs and a smaller slot underneath the bigger one for a smaller disc. So do a few on the ones on the site Nick provided.

[jameth]

Look here at the first video. It's a CED with the same type of switch:

http://www.cedmagic.com/museum/player-operation/player-operation.html

[jameth]

In Nicks thread he does not say that he thinks both are the 4821 and he puts the pic of the found 4821 next to the pic of the Esper. It's the top one. So not sure If Nick meant he thought both were or not. I think he was saying he had discovered only the model for the top one.

Regardless the bottom one is not a 4821. It's wider.

Any ideas??????

[jameth]

Most Brauns have equal space on either side between the clock face and the edge. The bottom Esper Braun has more space on the right than the left.