* = on rental list (S) = seen it, but not got it on the site yet The IT Crowd - S3E2 (TV) saw an Altair 8800 in last weeks episode of The IT Crowd (episode 2,series 3). On the Beach * the 2000 remake, not the 1959 original! Rachel Ward (?, I think) was using a LCII with 12" monitor. And she was using a G3 PowerBook for some of it too. Altamont Now This is one of those independent/underground movies where enthusiasm outstrips talent and resources. It was fun to try and identify which 1980s computers were being used as anachronistic set decoration in the actual decommissioned missile silo (I think I spotted a Commodore 64 and a TI 99/4A, and maybe a Radio Shack Color Computer). Gremlins 2 - The New Batch * Apple Mac. Sesame Street apple II http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/Episode_1933 http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/Episode_2258 commodore 64 http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/Episode_2956 The cookie monster sings a "computer cookie" song with an atari 800 in 1984. The Family Jewels * has "UNIVAC operator" on its cast list That Touch of Mink * Day is Cathy Timberlake, a sweet, um, Doris Day-type girl from Upper Sandusky, daughter of a schoolteacher and druggist. She works a "computing machine," and you see in the movie that it's UNIVAC. The Invisible Boy UNIVAC http://www.moria.co.nz/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2032&Itemid=1 The One Game (TV) * there are lots of Atari computer boxes littering his office, and he uses a 130XL in the last episode (the logo is clearly visible on the keyboard.) Airwolf (TV) The later (crappy) version of Airwolf that was picked up and produced by some Canadian TV company that didn't have Hawk and Dom in it, in the "Lair" there are ST's and in the "Company" office, in a few scene's and ST is on some desktops. - Curt Vendel Welcome to the Dollhouse * Mac Plus Max Dugan Returns This is a scene where Nora McPhee (Marsha Mason) is talking to her son Michael (Matthew Broderick) in his bedroom. This room is full of early 1980's electronic technology ... an Atari 800 computer (with its 5.25" floppy drive impractically located a few feet away on top of the TV). Hawaii Five O "Computer Killer" (Season 7, Episode 15) I don't want to go through the premise of the show, but a "computer consultant" apparently uses what I learned is an ADDS Envoy and an early mobile car phone to gain access to various Hawaii State agencies, like the DMV. http://www.vintage-computer.com/vcforum/showthread.php?p=72576 Collateral Damage * The terrorist uses a plam III on his motorbike (to trigger a bomb?). Free Willy 3 * Apple laptops used to record whalesong (marc). First Kid * Indy, Indigo 2 Ashes to Ashes (TV) * Commodore Pet in Gene Hunts office. he only uses it for playing games. The KGB, the Computer and Me (TV) (S) We see Clifford uses a Macintosh Classic at home (Maybe Macintosh SE). Ron uses a IBM PC or PC clone at home. http://mike.passwall.com/uselesstrivia/thekgbmycomputerandme.html http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0308449/ Disorderlies An Amiga 1000 can be seen in the movie Disorderlies in the background running a heart animation. (Jason L) Miami Vice (TV) The Amiga 1000 & 2000 computers appeared multiple times on the Miami Vice TV series (Seasons 4 & 5). The Amiga 1000 was shown the most residing in the Miami PD, whilst another was used in several office settings. The 2000 was shown once in a separate household. (Jason L) Cloak and Dagger * Atari 800 (Jason L). The Man with the Golden Gun * ICT 1301. http://www.michael-milsom.org.uk/mdm/1301/1301f.htm Blakes'7 S1E2 "Space Fall" * ICL 1301. http://www.michael-milsom.org.uk/mdm/1301/1301f.htm The Firm * I can dutifully report that "The Firm" is replete with Macintosh IIsi's. I'm not precisely sure of the exact Mac model, but a Google-image search seems to be a match to the IIsi. The machines are sometimes used to demonstrate key plot points, and receive a few notable close-up shots. (Jason L) Dead Zone * Apple II National Lampoon's Vacation * looks like a coco There isn't an Atari per se in this movie, but they do show an Apple computer with some Astrocade (?) joysticks Silver Spoons (TV) coco. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083479/ Spies Like Us * The movie "Spies Like Us" has an Apple II with the circuit card cover removed. It is being used by Dan Akryod's character to break codes. I just saw the movie on television this week. (Jason L) Lots of Luck An old 80's Disney movie had a prominent Apple IIC+. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089506/ (Jason L) Three Colours: Red * a C64, or may be a VIC-20 The Thing * an Apple ][ disguised as a "Chess Wizard" computer Lost * Apple II with an Apple III monitor. http://www.lostpedia.com/wiki/Swan_computer The Girl Most Likely To... I just spotted a nice IBM 360 installation in "The Girl Most Likely To...", a 1973 black comedy. Selectric console terminal, lots of 3420 tapes drives and a sorter painted blue. It's the sorter that has a tiny (and technically inaccurate, but who cares) role in the plot. It's a pretty fun movie, written by Joan Rivers, and there are a whole bunch of recognizable TV character actors of the era in there. Brian Knittel Seinfeld, Season 3 Episode 11 "The Alternate Side" (TV) * When Jerry is trying to pick up his rental car, the agents are using TRS-80 model III computers. (Steven Stengel of http://oldcomputers.net/) The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou * TRS80 Model III was featured in the Belafonte's "state of the art" communication room. Fortress * C64 cameo appearance. Goldeneye * ThinkPad 701, ThinkPad 755, Aptiva PC 300 The Princess Bride * Commodore 64 computer is shown playing Accolade's Hardball game. Deep Obsessions Commodore 64 computer is shown. More Than Human In the Disney film More Than Human, a Commodore Amiga 1000 computer is shown. Swordfish * (S) Stanley the hacker stores the code for his worm on a PDP-10 in a file room of Caltech that was kept online, and on the internet, for "historical sake". (you can't see the PDP-10 - only a load of DELL laptops and servers) Santa Claus Conquers the Martians * SAGE http://sturgeon.css.psu.edu/~mloewen/Q7/scifi/Santa/ Zontar: The Thing from Venus SAGE http://sturgeon.css.psu.edu/~mloewen/Q7/scifi/Zontar/ Columbo - A Deadly State of Mind - Season 4 (TV) * SAGE http://sturgeon.css.psu.edu/~mloewen/Q7/scifi/Columbo/ Winter Kills * SAGE http://sturgeon.css.psu.edu/~mloewen/Q7/scifi/WinterKills/ Battle For the Planet of the Apes * SAGE, B205 http://www.angelfire.com/scifi/B205/onscreen.html http://sturgeon.css.psu.edu/~mloewen/Q7/scifi/BattleApes/ Westworld * SAGE http://sturgeon.css.psu.edu/~mloewen/Q7/scifi/Westworld/ Futureworld * SAGE http://sturgeon.css.psu.edu/~mloewen/Q7/scifi/Futureworld/ Sleeper * SAGE http://sturgeon.css.psu.edu/~mloewen/Q7/scifi/Sleeper/ Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Sex But Were Afraid To Ask * SAGE http://sturgeon.css.psu.edu/~mloewen/Q7/scifi/Everything/ For Your Eyes Only. * The picture of the prime suspect is printed out on a Philips printer, connected to a P4000, but there is no disk in the drive. The bomb is made up of a plasma display and a P6272 keyboard. (Nico de Jong). http://www.computermuseumgroningen.nl/philips/pm4400/pm4400.html Blade Trinity (S) PowerBook 12" Back to the Future II * (S) An original Apple Computer Macintosh appears in the window display of an antique store in the future. Stay Alive (S) Alienware laptops were featured prominently in the 2006 movie, Stay Alive. Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning Well, our beloved C64 is there, and also a 1541 disk drive. You can download the movie, because is meant to be -- not piracy at all, in www.starwreck.com. At 11:07 we can see an operator near a computer monitor and a well-known disk drive. at 11:28 we can see the same operator using a C64 for trying to stop the overheating of the reactor of a nuclear power plant. We can see at least 2 C64's, 3 monitors I can't identify and another (if not the same) 1541 drive, from 11:28 to 12:02... I haven't noticed another ones. Matlock (TV) A C128 is used in an episode of "Matlock". It was refered to as just a word processor. VAX 11-780. It was definitely a VAX-11 of some kind. Anyway, some FBI guy got slammed up against it. Beverly Hills Ninja * There is a C64 in Beverly Hills Ninja with Chris Farley who is no longer among us due to alcohol and drugs obuse. Neighbours (TV) Yup, there was a "hacking" incident in Neighbours where one of the kids tries to break into the school computer with a C64 - suffice to say it looked crap onscreen. http://www.neighboursepisodes.com/index.php?year=1991&episode=1467 There was an A500 in use at Lassiters for a while as well. MacGyver - Season 1, Episode 15 "The Enemy Within" (TV) * The chemical composition of a liquid with the help of a C64 analysed. Empty Nest (TV) C64 Class of Nuke'em High II In a scene of the film, a C64 as a wall-mounted to the code lock is used. Police Acadamy III * In a scene of the film, the "traffic control grid" of the city of LA shown course a C64. The Addams Family (TV) The Addamses were the first TV family to own a home computer (a UNIVAC). Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1964) * Burroughs B-205 The Time Tunnel (1966) Burroughs B-205 bits of SAGE as well as B-205 The Green Hornet (1966) Burroughs B-205. Episode #24 "Invasion from Outer Space" {PART 1}aired 3/10/67 The Green Hornet attempts to thwart the plans of a power-mad scientist to steal a nuclear warhead. Land of the Giants (1968) (TV) Burroughs B-205 The Right Stuff (1983) * Burroughs B-205 Smart Money (1986) Here's some beeb related snapshots from a 1986 BBC film "Smart Money" which features one scene shot in a computer show somewhere - the clip pans across the Acorn stand then up to a balcony where the characters are talking. http://www.stairwaytohell.com/sthforums/viewtopic.php?t=752 Tangents/Time Chasers Computer of the time machine is a Commodore 64 with a 1541 Floppy disk drive. Mission: Impossible * apple powerbook The Butterfly appeared in the recent Mission: Impossible movie. It seems like everybody has laptops and the bad guys prefer the ThinkPad 701. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind * The computer used during the procedure is actually an Amstrad PPC640 (Portable Personal Computer) from the early 1990s. Tron (S) the computer room seen after Flynn and Lora sneak into Encom contains a CDC 7600 computer in the background. This scene was shot of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. (Note that a wide screen version of the movie is needed to see the 7600 and neighboring Cray-1.) The computer flynn used when captured by the computer may be a vt78. Aliens * grid gridcase laptop. GRiD Defence Systems produced the laptop computers used in the "Aliens" film in 1986. The scenes were cut from the theatrical release but subsequently added to the DVD release. Robot Holocaust i don't remember the name of it, might have even been some stupid movie on MST3K like "Robot Holocaust" or something but ANYWAYS... one of the scenes was a cheesy underground "lair" (not unlike a "batcave") that had a requisite mad scientist with his super computer which consisted of a giant steel box with a rectangular hole in the top of it from which peeked a VIC-20! Wargames (S) other than the IMSAI see http://www.classiccmp.org/pipermail/cctech/2005-June/046116.html Trudeau One Chicklet PET, a Super PET 9000 and a CBM 8032 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0299404/ Our Man Flint (S) pieces of the sage computer http://sturgeon.css.psu.edu/~mloewen/Q7/scifi/Flint/ Food of the Gods II Amiga used as prop on the growth lab. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097371/ Prince of Darkness * Amiga 1000s used to write down some evil phrases. With external diskdrives and monitors (the ancient ones) by Commodore-Amiga. Screamers * Amiga computer and Workbench visible. Toy Soldiers (S) Amiga 2000 spotted. The X-Files (TV) In early episodes of the series The X-Files, the FBI agents use Newtons. Hackers he character of Kate Libby in Hackers has a MessagePad which is seen in a number of scenes. apple iigs http://www.vintage-computer.com/vcforum/showthread.php?t=9747&page=2 Moonlighting * The Kaypro Robie did not sell well, but it did make periodic cameo appearances on the ABC television series Moonlighting, as the desktop computer used by Bruce Willis' character David Addison. Breach I just saw the movie "Breach" this past weekend, and for a recent release it still had some old SGI hardware. Really old, in fact. When they visit the FBI datacenter, there's an old POWER CHALLENGE in the background, along with some Origin 2000s. Later on, there are some closer- up shots of the Origins, and it's apparent that some of the panels are loose and dangling - there's one about to fall off right behind the main characters head. Casino Royale * Sony Vaio SZ: Bond utilize the SZ at the Bahamas beach while searching for the ahh... goons. while using his boss' login credentials. lol. and at the movie ending. VAIO GRT390 Vaio Fj: Le Chiffre has a Sony Vaio Fj series in color Onyx Black, as do Judi Dench as M has also an Fj series in Pearl White The Holiday * Iris Simpkins (Kate Winslet) Had a Sony Vaio Fj series laptop in Pearl White Color. Johnny English Vaio PCG-SRX77 Resident Evil (Apocalypse) * VAIO Z1: the umbrella corporation invented a virus that infected everyone in racoon city. the vaio is being used by this umbrella corporation scientist on a wheel chair searching for the area of racoon city for his daughter through public online cams. Terminal Entry This 1986 film, about kids that play a video game but are actually directing terrorist acts, has a lot of shots of Atari 800 computers. Videodrome * They use the original Atari 800 EXTENSIVELY throughout the movie! The Six Million Dollar Man (TV) * Look closely and in some scenes among the panels of lab equipment you will see an Altair 8800 (painted white, yuck!) which was rumoured to actually be used for control of the lab panel lighting effects. (more details to follow) Enemy Of the State * Sun Ultra 10 Midrange (Elite 3D?!) is shown in "Enemy Of the State". The computer used by Daniel Leon Zavitz at his apartment to make a copy of the assassination's video on a removable media is a SUN Microsystems Ultra10 workstation. Revenge of the Nerds when they get into their dorm room they hang up a Franklin ACE-1000 poster, but the curl hides the "Franklin" at the bottom. (bob applegate) See also: acorns: http://www.iconbar.com/news/mediawatch.html amigas: http://www.amigahistory.co.uk/fau/movies.html ataris: http://alive.atari.org/alive0/film.php macs: http://www.mac-spotting.com/ SAGE: http://sturgeon.css.psu.edu/~mloewen/Q7/ icl1301: http://www.michael-milsom.org.uk/mdm/1301/1301f.htm cocos: http://www.coco3.com/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewforum&f=14 various: http://www.islandnet.com/~KPOLSSON/comppop/ old scifi:http://www.rimworlds.com/classic%20science%20fiction%20channel.htm thinkpads: http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?t=31917 Foreign Films ------------- El Relicario It's an IBM System/360 model 65 Isola del tesoro, L master compact (Olivetti Prodest 128) Pacco, doppio pacco e contropaccotto A500 on screen used for databasing. Hatschipuh C64 Rosenzweigs Freiheit In a scene of this film is a Commodore Plus4 shown. G.O.R.A. Which reminds me - a C64 with tape drive appears in the Turkish science fiction parody "G.O.R.A." (IMDB; Official Web Page). Towards the end of the movie, it is used to upload combat programs into the hero's mind... and the movie's from 2004! Pelle og Proffen Norwegian movie. Amiga 500 and notepad used. Notte prima degli esami Italian film, with a C64, perhaps. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notte_prima_degli_esami Terminus a rare french SF Movie where the Spectrum is used in one scene as wireless communication terminal. http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showpost.php?p=316543&postcount=2 Peng! du bist tot a german crime/hacker TV movie, there the Spectrum was put on a Robot, which was very intelligent by the way http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showpost.php?p=316543&postcount=2 Seksmisja polish film uses zx spectrums for GFX, but maybe not on screen. http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showpost.php?p=316657&postcount=8 Spécial Police french film featuring apple II, apple III, apple macs, Oric Atmos http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=tAVFpNRhosQ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090058/ Films with unidentified computers -------------------------------- Infinity * What computer was in the movie 'Infinity' w/ Mathew Broderick? It was a big machine, with a typewriter interface and paper punch. Single White Female * I know it looks like a "lunchbox" type machine, but that's about it. The Breakfast Club * Several computers can be seen in the library, which are off the entire time. Eraser Eraser also featured a portable computer. Unfortunately, I do not know which portable computer it was. Neither does anyone at Warner Brothers, including Steve in Product Placement, who informed me, "I'm sorry, this office cannot comment on that." Big * Jason L reckons there's a computer in there - didn't say which. Superman III * and a mystery machine - may be a mock up Contact Plenty of desktop PCs donated by the entrepreneur Mr. Hadden .... I have to find out what models are. Ellie Arroway, the main character played by Jodie, uses a laptop when she's outside of the SETI lab seeking extra-terrestrial signals .... nice scenes, by the way. I must find what portable is .... (hector) Buckaroo Banzai Mysterious S100 machine. Looks like either a Compupro or California Computer Systems (CCS) chassis. (bob applegate) Silent Running UNIVAC? True Stories * In the movie True Stories (1986) starring David Byrne and John Goodman, the scene at the mall shows the computer programmer (played by Matthew Posey) having purchased an arm-full of Atari 8 bit products. The China Syndrome * DEC equipment?