Nixies in Stanley Kubrick's "A Clockwork Orange" (1971)

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Jon D.

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Jan 18, 2023, 2:20:11 PM1/18/23
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During the "reprogramming" of Alex the droog (a "volunteer" from prison, a convicted murderer), the Government experiments with a new drug and treatment to undo his ultraviolent tendencies.  Here are a few Nixie photos from that experiment about 1hr14mins or so into the movie.
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Audrey

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Jan 18, 2023, 2:37:40 PM1/18/23
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I noticed these aswell, surely it's HP gear.

On Wed, Jan 18, 2023, 2:20 PM Jon D. <jond...@gmail.com> wrote:
During the "reprogramming" of Alex the droog (a "volunteer" from prison, a convicted murderer), the Government experiments with a new drug and treatment to undo his ultraviolent tendencies.  Here are a few Nixie photos from that experiment about 1hr14mins or so into the movie.

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Adrian Godwin

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Audrey

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Adrian Godwin

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Jan 18, 2023, 7:01:48 PM1/18/23
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And from the Racal list :

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Hi Adrian

Looks to me like a Marconi Instruments TF1417, the date is about correct for it to be so.

George G6HIG Dover UK
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I think the smaller of these counters is a Racal 835. Does anyone recognise the larger one ?

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During the "reprogramming" of Alex the droog (a "volunteer" from prison, a convicted murderer), the Government experiments with a new drug and treatment to undo his ultraviolent tendencies.  Here are a few Nixie photos from that experiment about 1hr14mins or so into the movie.

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Adrian Godwin

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Jan 18, 2023, 7:02:40 PM1/18/23
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Mac Doktor

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Jan 18, 2023, 7:42:56 PM1/18/23
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Warning: VERY large images! You might want to delete them from your reply. I attempted to post them to Imgur but I couldn't get a new gallery to work for some odd reason...


On Jan 18, 2023, at 2:20 PM, Jon D. <jond...@gmail.com> wrote:

During the "reprogramming" of Alex the droog (a "volunteer" from prison, a convicted murderer), the Government experiments with a new drug and treatment to undo his ultraviolent tendencies.  Here are a few Nixie photos from that experiment about 1hr14mins or so into the movie.

Looks like two more over on the right:




This shot fills almost the entire frame. Looks like a hamfest in the back:



Terry Bowman, KA4HJH
"The Mac Doctor"

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Paolo Cravero

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Jan 19, 2023, 3:07:20 AM1/19/23
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Hello.
I have added the movie to the list of "Nixie in broadcast media" some neonixie-l members compiled few years ago:


Please have a look and fill up the missing info on this movie based on existing entries. Also feel free to add missing media!

Paolo


Zachary

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Jan 26, 2023, 11:41:41 AM1/26/23
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Hello,

I have added two recent medias in which Nixie clocks have appeared to the spreadsheet list Paolo linked. Notably Christopher Nolan's upcoming movie Oppenheimer in which a Nixie countdown timer appears (at least in the trailer) and the Netflix series Wednesday in which a clock can be seen.

Zachary

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