Movies & Television: Police, Fire & EMS Vehicles
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The siren sound is a recording of a late 1960s Federal PA15A or PA20A (B, C, or D series).
Could very well be.
And the deck amber light is backwards when Riggs is filmed driving.
oh well.. Hollywood. i'm not even sure LAPD ever got Fireballs..
And the deck amber light is backwards when Riggs is filmed driving.
oh well.. Hollywood. i'm not even sure LAPD ever got Fireballs..
The siren is on wail and yelp simultaneously ? Musta been a Hollywood special model...
This is probably what they had installed in their carThe siren is on wail and yelp simultaneously ? Musta been a Hollywood special model...
Two recordings of the PA20, one wail and one yelp overdubbed in the studio and added in post production.The siren is on wail and yelp simultaneously ? Musta been a Hollywood special model...
Those look like PA20As. Where I live I can remember a couple of ambulances running dual PA20As - one was a late 1960s model with the low-pitched tones and the other was a 1970s model with high-pitched tones. The low pitched wail and high-pitched yelp sounded kinda neat together.
You can tell they are using diffrent cars. If you watch the first clip, the car has chrome rims. Fast forward to 4:33 and they are painted gray.
Had to, the way they were driven and destroyed !!
Besides, from a purely technical pov, a 12 or 14 hour long shooting day usually entails filming several episodes. So if a couple cars are made available for a particular schedule, they actually might end up visible over several episodes afterwards.
And as a consequence, consecutive scenes, although chronologically happening within minutes, may show a different car between, say, the moment they park up and enter the building, and ten minutes later when they come out from same building...
Besides, from a purely technical pov, a 12 or 14 hour long shooting day usually entails filming several episodes. So if a couple cars are made available for a particular schedule, they actually might end up visible over several episodes afterwards.
And as a consequence, consecutive scenes, although chronologically happening within minutes, may show a different car between, say, the moment they park up and enter the building, and ten minutes later when they come out from same building...
I watched that movie a few times, and I still think that the Mars Aurora Borealis light bars were the stars of the show.
Fargo: Season 2, Episode 2 (this scene portrays Rock County MN)
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The siren in the bottom picture is a Federal PA20. It is a very old siren (c. 1962-1966). Recordings of this type of siren were used in post production for a lot of TV shows and movies that were made during the latter half of the 1960s and all throughout the 1970s.
Saw this last night in a cheesy 1971 movie Dracula vs Frankenstein. An Amber - Red Visibar. I think the siren is a WG. Is suppose to be in Venice, California.
Is that a Sireno Condor lightbar (second to last picture, white caprice, red/blue lightbar)?
Tis so! I caught that too. Wonder where they pulled that from?
It lasted 37 episodes (1979-1981). I'm shocked it lasted that long. But I do remember watching it as a kid.
BJ and the Bear was a horrible show. I couldn't watch one episode all the way though.
"Movin' On" was much better. Claude Akins played the part of truck driver Sonny Pruitt.
I seen a fire dept with this set up in a rescue truck with 2 PA300's