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From: ssc!tad@beaver.cs.washington.edu (Tad Cook)
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Subject: Re: Die Hard 2 Dies on Telecom
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Date: 17 Jul 90 16:27:33 GMT
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In article <9565@accuvax.nwu.edu>, blake@pro-party.cts.com (Blake
Farenthold) writes:

> Over the holiday I saw Die Harder: Die Hard 2.  When you go, leave
> your telecom background at home.  You know you are in for it when you
> see 2 telecom 'continuity' errors within the first five minutes...

I haven't seen the second movie, but in the first Bruce was using
Kenwood 440 MHz handie talkies that allowed him to 1) talk to the
terrorists 2) talk to the police 3) talk on CB channel 9 (!)  4)
operate full duplex, hands free when he was digging glass out` of his
feet!

Hams got a real kick out of this, and there was quite a discussion on
rec.ham-radio about this.

{Cinefex Magazine} had a great article last year about the making of Die
Hard, in which they showed how they used radio controlled helicopters
and models for the effects.  Neat!


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