Tape in Movies: Reel-to-reel, cassettes & recorders on-screen! 

very enjoyable video favourite has to be 9 and a half weeks that tape deck wow !!!!

Cool video. Picked up a 100% restored RX-505 a decade ago and use it regularly.👍

Another vote for "The Conversation."

Super ....more of this please!!!!!!

'The Conversation', as others have mentioned, is a definite must see. On TV the original 'Mission Impossible' series used to have the mission recorded on a small tape recorder that used to 'self destruct in 10 seconds'.

The X-2000 series was indeed the best and last series of R2R from TEAC. Especially the 2-track version X-2000 M with 38cm/s speed is one of the best home R2R devices ever built. I consider myself very lucky to own one of these, which I bought new in 1990.

On 9,5 Week, not only the tape deck is amazing, but the MUSIC of Brian Eno (Music of Airporrts-1) is one os the best I heard.

Thank you for another great and very interesting video!

A piece of Hi Fi history, many soldiers in Vietnam when they came home brought Japanese components they bought at PXs, etc. Sansui, Akai, etc. It really got Japanese equipment known in US for the age of Japanese stereos! Now considered the golden age of receivers!

Hello Guido, a wonderful selection. There was only one movie that I sorely missed, because it features so many devices that I'm sure you also adore: DIVA from Jean-Jacques Beineix ... it is so analog Cheers Sammy

This was really cool and different. kinda seems like your day job got to mingle with your you tube channel.right on man!

Hi Guido, You don't ever need to apologise for a few mispronunciations. You're fluent in at least two languages. I wish I was even slightly as good with a second language as you are with English. Keep up the great work. 👌🎧👍

Risky Business scene with the Phase Linear 7000 (aka Pioneer CT-A1) is a very cool scene with this great cassette deck. Love your channel, thank you.

I have owned two Naks, both are & were great machines. The music clip in 9 1/2 Weeks was Eno's Ambient Music.

Guido, that's a nice concept you got there. Very cool and interesting. BTW, if the movie is over 20 y/o, don't worry about spoilers... Apocalypse Now.... fun story, my first R2R was an AKAI X-1800SD which cam from Vietnam. And it was from 1972 (the year I was born). I bought it along with over 100 tapes from the grandson of the owner who unfortunately had passed away. It was a cool machine with its own speakers and an 8-track player. Also, funny, I myself spent nearly 11 years in Vietnam (but much later.. in the 2000s) so it made me connect with it. Even though, I no longer have it but still have the tapes... including a Led Zeppelin III reel in pretty good condition... Had to part with it because of lack of space plus a friend needed it to service another machine Those AKAI from this era had a major flaw, the buttons for play etc where using specially formed activators that were made in a material that gets brittle with age. Nowadays, I know some people have come up with 3D printing to make replacement. Heck, I even found a guy who was carving those pieces out of wood and made it work. Anyway, I was happy to help someone and prefer to not have the machine anymore when those pieces disintegrate. Plus I've acquired a bunch of Pioneer R2R (707, 909, 1920) and a more recent AKAI (X-360) so I'm set while waiting to find a nice Technics 1506 in good shape for a reasonable price (I know I'm dreaming). For A Clock Work Orange, one could be more interested in knowing about that luscious turntable he has... (an idea for a follow up video? ;-) )

"The Conversation" with Gene Hackman

Absolutely great movie-examples. The Nakamichi 480Z was my first Cassette-Deck of that Brand in my life, after it I got 700ZXL, 1000ZXL (both used) and Dragon (new).

Brilliant

There also a tape deck used in back to the future 3 that doc is explaining what happen the previous night.

1st movie song also used in what's opera doc.

Martin Sheen is in the clip as well. I have seen many Crossfield decks for sale, both Akai & before them Roberts. Good to know about that tech!

Alex's amplifier and tuner in 'A Clockwork Orange' were also real: Bang & Olufsen Beomaster 5000 (to the left of the record player) and Beolab 5000 (to the right). They were designed by Jacob Jensen and were at that time considered very futuristic looking with their transparent 'slide ruler' controls.

I have a Teac X2000M I bought new in 1992. A couple of drive belts and a new set of heads later and it's still going strong. A lovely companion to my BR20.

much better than the last video.

I was thinking the living room of Patrick Bateman in the movie American Psycho. Although they are not interacted with in the movie, there is a harman kardon cassette deck and a few stacked TDK D tapes.

16:15 No. 5: If i remember correctly this scene is considered being of high influence in the resurgence of the R2R in the early 2000's. They chose a really great looking R2R and people were curious of what is that device. Some could remember seeing reels at their parents but to many it was old technology yet surprisingly good looking and of course performing exceptionally well.

Pulp Fiction and Evil Dead all the way. The Conversation is a love letter to audio.

Muy bueno Guido!!

The first movie of the akai, the tape is not even touching the heads and the just have it going through the pinch roller and capstan and looped around the automatic shutoff arm.

High Fidelity, best music film ever!

Thank Guido. Greta vídeo again

... contains tape: After midnight (2019), The Quiller Memorandum (1966), The Ipcress File 1965, Stranger Things (series), ....

Hi Guido. You do see a lot of great stuff in movies, so this is an awesome idea. Let's have some more of these videos, and with other types of gear as well. I guess it's quite normal for people like us to immediately forget all about the plot and focus on the gear that's being used, or appears in the background, and try to identify it. At least it's normal for me. Just ask my wife, though she won't agree about the normal part, and tends to get pissed when I rewind, freeze the movie, move closer to the screen and starts talking to her about the gear. "I was watching that"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! "I know honey, but now it finally started to get interesting". One movie that most definitely comes to mind right away is Guardians of the Galaxy since it started the current tape fetish for a lot of people. I'm actually surprised that it wasn't the first example in this video, and that no one else has mentioned it in the comments so far. There's so many good examples that it almost blocks my brain, but I'll be posting suggestions as I get it sorted out. Stay cool Mate. All the best from Denmark.

Guess Guido, my wife (violinist) was so lucky that she could participate in the orchestral recording of F. F. Coppola's brand new movie 'Megalopolis' because the whole score has been recorded in Budapest (there is a famous studio here where tons of Hollywood movie soundtrack have been made). She has picture with the Maestro and I got a signed note page of Megalopolis and a signed Dracula Blu-Ray. 😊 He was very kind, an unbelievable 'giant'.

RX505 lovely, I have a Nakamichi but I can’t remember what it is lol

Thanks for the great new video. Diva is a 1981 French thriller film directed by Jean-Jacques Beineix which you must see and show some credits. Nagra and Nakamichi are the main actors I'm my opinion. Great soundtrack also. But here comes the question. We have tape revival with old tapes and old decks? Where are the new equipment?

Interesting, bit of trivia, when Alex goes to music store there is a top ten list. One of the bands listed is Heaven 17. In the 80's a group took that name for themselves.

One Of my Fav Films with Reel To Reel Tape must Be ABBA The Movie .. in 1977 Cassette was starting to make more use for journalists i'm sure, but using an open reel deck allowed for editing with a razor blade at hand..

Oh no, I need to rectify - cross field alows to send bias without any touch to tape. In standard technologies it is imposible because we need full contact to bias/audio head because audio has to be fully transferred to magnetic particles. .. Bias head in cross field is not wearing and due to it its parameters do not change by friction to tape. Bias fluctuations (increase with every meter of tape movement) is 90% reason of degradation in recording mode and may be corrected by else distancing recording head from tape in play mode, or using separate recorder for reproduction only and often aligning bias. . I think downside of cross fileld may be difficulty to keep precision distance from bias head to tape because tapes are different, they , may be localy deformed while it decides about bias and perfomance . .

Capture photo of old stars hifi rig, Frank sinatra, Doris day etc . These are touted to have top hifi in those days. Infact the beach boys got thier inspiration from playing back the rubber soul beatles record on Doris day actress hifi rig. You can try to locate photos of these famous stars hifi rig

Diva 1981 French thriller film directed by Jean-Jacques Beineix, adapted from the novel Diva by Daniel Odier. Featured some "pirate" recordindg on a nagra of an opera perfomance, that drive all action in a film

What about cool speakers in movies like the Gallo Reference in Inspector Gadget live action? I'm wondering where the speakers were in that Pulp Fiction scene....must have been in-walls - LOL

hi the last one is about abit not right techmoen need alot on the micro cassette there was home player for the hi-fi just not any good there was a lot of reel to reel tape decks in tv show there's the one in the 1st roger moore this model was made of the usa market place akai 1800ss came out when i get my cam's back i have to make some video's mag film i call it was in one of the parts i have new head blocks for 1 inch film there's alot of formats out there some we just don't know about very good video great you done it i know the way you come over i love i sound very bad i have to use a voice changer i sound like a cold all the time

License to drive. 1988 movie with The Two Corey's. Natalie's stereo + The Cadillac car stereo that eats the mix tape.

cool!

I have an AKAI M9 with transistors not tubes like the M8.

I got the RX 202e

Vast Night. Good Morning Vietnam. White Noise......

Hi, you should not skip Il secondo tragico Fantozzi, when Fantozzi covers Conte Semenzara (maybe a Geloso recorder) and Fantozzi subisce ancora, in the scene where Fantozzi covers all the colleagues "absent" from work (Akai db4000 it seems). Not the proper use of a tape recorder, but a specific instrument to create humor Btw, also in Mission: Impossible (old tv series), tape recorders have been used (and in theory destroied at every mission), but also From Russia with love, even if that was a Q design, small recorder is present

Yet another one comes to mind. 11.22.63 (Stephen King Tv movie with James Franco in the leading role). Loads of Akai R2R's.

Thank you Pet…. Ops, Guido!! 😂😂 Great episode, great idea! Don’t have much to contribute, it’s only to congratulate you! Stay safe! P.S.: BTW, what’s your take on Nakamichi 600 cassette deck?

There is also a Sony R2R in Apocalypse Now Harrison Ford is playing a recording on it

For volume 2 add the Akai 1722 ii R2R from the Canadian made movie “The Changeling”. The deck is instrumental in the plot development. The scene (53 mins into the movie) is based around what he hears. The movie is available on RU-vid for free. It’s a classic. BTW, another vote for “The Conversation”.

An other tape machine in A Clockwork Orange: a reel to reel Sony TC630 (at 2:02 : ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-BXYJcCwq7NM.html)

Check out the rig in the opening scenes of 23 PACES TO BAKER STREET (1956) - a fun CinemaScope mystery thriller about a blind playwright (played by Van Johnson) who dictates his work to tape. P.S. There's a great HD print on RU-vid of the full feature for reference.

The RU-vidr Techmoan has made a couple of videos about the different tape recorders used in the original 1960:s TV-series Mission Impossible. The tape recorders were used to give IMF team leader Jim Phelphs (Peter Graves) his missions. When the tape came to the end, the tape recorder was self destructed in five seconds! Good luck, Jim!😄

there's another movie "the thing 1982", kurt russell is using a shoebox cassette recorder for dictation, somewhere at 63 minutes in the movie.

Long time ago I created a web dedicated to R2R on movies. If you look carefully, you will see that the tape is not correctly threaded in Akai inside the helicopter in Apocalypse Now!, tape goes directly from supply to take up reel without passing through the heads.

Klute, The Warriors, Grosse Pointe Blank, Good Fellas, Walk Hard, The Buddy Holly Story, just too many to list

New York stories, 1.989 Martín Scorsese's Life lessons, SONY cassette tape deck, with Nick Nolte.

Not sure if you will ever make a follow-up for this, but if so, you might consider a really interesting movie: The Conversation (1974) with Gene Hackman. The character played by Hackman is also a sound engineer (a surveillance specialist, IMDB says) that finds out that the couple he is spying is about to be murdered. A nice collection of tape recorders and other sound equipment in this movie.

The 1st 1 I can't help hear "Kill the waabbit!" 😅

I did my own copy of the Clockwork Orange one, but on microcassette: ru-vid.commSY0AYKtgJc?si=zbT0MQSsqwQ1PPE_

Bravo Guido!