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Old 12-02-2015, 11:16 AM
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Interesting RCA TV in "Once Upon a Time in America"

Hi there TV collectors,

Yesterday I watched a YouTube video from two American TV collectors that briefly mentioned the different styling on vintage European sets. I made a comment expressing my taste in those sets.

Last night I decided to watch the movie Once Upon a Time in America (boy it is long), and look what shows up!


Of all the dumb luck

What an interesting set! I'm from the United Kingdom, and I've never seen a TV from North America with this styling before. Can anybody tell me anything about it?

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Old 12-02-2015, 12:33 PM
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Ain't no American TV- They can put ALL the "RCA" stickers they want on it, but that STILL won't make it an American set.
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Old 12-02-2015, 01:31 PM
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Definitely not an American set.
Sergio Leone directed that film, it was shot in Italy and the U.S. so likely that's an Italian TV.
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Old 12-02-2015, 02:03 PM
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Look at all the slider pots. No American TV manufacturer used slider pots to that extent. Also note the slider pots' location - all at one extreme. You wouldn't expect all the controls to be in one extreme position for normal operation.
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Old 12-02-2015, 02:05 PM
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Never saw a TV like that, probably some kind of prop.
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Old 12-02-2015, 02:39 PM
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Yesterday I watched a YouTube video from two American TV collectors that briefly mentioned the different styling on vintage European sets.
What was the video?
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Old 12-02-2015, 04:44 PM
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Never saw an American TV that size that had the dials at the bottom.

Reminds me of some Russian/Eastern European TV's I saw once, probably on this very forum.
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Old 12-02-2015, 04:46 PM
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All American TV manufacturers (and Japan too) never had the outer glass sides of the CRT be exposed. We always had anything beyond the viewable area masked off.
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Old 12-02-2015, 06:34 PM
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I didn't expect so many replies. Thanks!

Somehow I didn't think it was an American TV. I didn't notice the slider controls at the extreme left. That's very curious. I agree with dishdude, it probably is a prop. I bet they just took any old TV and put it there, then added the picture later on.

Maybe I'm mistaken, but that really does look like an RCA logo in the top right. I can't say I've seen any RCA branded sets here in the UK at least. I wonder who really made this one.

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What was the video?
This video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2eQ5rA0tDA

It's a QA video, not specifically related to TVs. But they have numerous videos on vintage sets. They even own an RCA CTC-100. I believe Spats Bear is a member here.
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Old 12-02-2015, 07:32 PM
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Maybe I'm mistaken, but that really does look like an RCA logo in the top right. I can't say I've seen any RCA branded sets here in the UK at least. I wonder who really made this one.
It does appear to read RCA, BUT it is not written in any font that RCA used for it's product name badges in that era. Most certainly it is a European set with an a fake studio added RCA badge glued on to confuse a euro audience into thinking it's an American set.
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Old 12-02-2015, 07:36 PM
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I enlarged the photo to 400%. At that point you can see that the RCA logo is not the correct font. Also the convergence is absolutely perfect at the screen edges. I think it was a film clip "photoshopped" on to the TV screen.
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Old 12-02-2015, 08:04 PM
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I think the entire TV might be a photo shop creation. And the artist likely didn't have a clue how to lay out the front panel. Actually if you turn that whole concoction upside down, it starts to make sense.
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Old 12-03-2015, 05:51 PM
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Looks like they've stuck a little piece a board with a couple of channel knobs on it over the space where the push button or touch button controls were on the European set. Without those knobs it looks like a set I've seen before, but I can't remember the brand.
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Old 12-03-2015, 06:18 PM
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Pretty fancy photoshoppin' that makes reflections in the cabinet around the edge of the tube...

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Old 12-03-2015, 07:08 PM
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Could be a screen shot of more modern set pasted into whatever that cabinet is made of. To me it looks like there's a sliver of black plastic around the edges of that supposed CRT screen shot.
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