MORSE GOES TO THE MOVIES

Canadian Railway Telegraph History

MORSE GOES TO THE MOVIES!

The following series of webpages (A to Z) include Movies, Television Shows, TV Commercials, Heritage Commercials, and Cartoons,
which specifically outlines where Morse Code and telegraphic equipment has been used.

With newer movies, less equipment is visible but with more digital/electronic sound and/or music,
has become more prominent in this medium, so this too, where prominently heard, is being included.

MOVIE SITE UPDATE(S):

Somme 1916: Both Sides of the Wire - 21 July 2020

MOVIE Titles A to D BELOW

TITLE	NOTES	MAIN ACTOR	DIRECTOR	YEAR Produced	VIDEO AVAILABLE CREDITS
Movie title unknown	old movie - in black and white and set I think in the old west - climatic scene is the sending of morse code by a steam train's horn (I think) to try to make sure another train stops before getting to a bridge which had collapsed - message being sent out was 'Stop the Train' - I think a young boy was the person who realised what the message was saying. Of course, the train stopped in time, and they all lived happily ever after	?	?	19??s	? Noel H
cartoon - title unknown	scene has two cats in the radio room of a ship in a storm - attached to the operating table is a mouse with a tail brought forward as a telegraph key - one of the cats sends SOS in mouse squeaks - "A 1 mouse power transmitter"	?	?	1930s	? Wilfred G
39 Steps, The (also: The Thirty-Nine Steps)	. Morse heard after train comes emergency stop on bridge . code effect represents: HEIGHT 5 FOOT 10 SMALL MOUSTACHE LAST SCENE WEARING A DARK SUIT BUT HE MAY HAVE OBTAINED A CHANGE OF CLOTHING	Robert Donat, Madelaine Carroll	Alfred Hitchcock	1935	Y
39 Steps, The (also: The Thirty-Nine Steps) remake of 1935 film	. Morse used in similar fashion to above 1935 film	Kenneth More, Taina Elg	Ralph Thomas	1959	Y
633 Squadron	Morse signal lamps and code used	Cliff Robertson	Walter Grauman	1963	Y John Hann
680 Radio News	680 Radio News, the all-news radio station in Toronto, Ontario is currently using Morse code to warn other road traffic reporting stations that the best traffic report is coming up and all others should stop & listen!	-	-	October 1997	N
711 Ocean Drive	Bookie wire service uses telegraph & sounder to send/receive bookings for race tracks - the boss comes out & points to the sounder and says "See that telegraph key? It's the backbone of the whole racket..." (hmmm) - later he adds "The telephone is here to stay." - O'Brien then adds "Get rid of the telegraph & set up a telephone system." (geez) - several more weird script comments - Morse also used by Joanne Dru to secretly tap Morse for horse odds with her index finger on her purse to guy by slot machine & he runs to make bets - wine glasses used to send triple A for some reason - Morse used is clean & accurate	Edmond O'Brien, Joanne Dru, Otto Kruger	Joseph M Newman	1950	Y
A Man Called Intrepid	'Witness To Yesterday' series - excellent discussion with Canadian spy master William Stevenson ('Intrepid') on use of secret code by wireless telegraph & Enigma cipher machine during WWII - discussion of ULTRA code breaking technology & agent "Cynthia" who actually broke German code during WWII - interview by Patrick Watson	Patrick Watson, John Neville	Patrick Watson & Ralan Gough	1988	N
A View To A Kill	James Bond climbs aboard his motorized iceberg - his beautiful Captain sends a Morse code message stating they are underway (gibberish) - also small scene with Q show Bond a radio & has short Morse blurb	Roger Moore, Tanya Roberts, Chris Walken	John Glen	1985	Y
Abraham Lincoln	almost three minute scene of excellent Morse Code in the 'Civil War relay room' - code is clean, some good shots of equipment, use of 'call boys'	Walter Huston, Una Merkel, Kay Hammond	DW Griffith	1930	Y
Abe Lincoln in Illinois	minor use of code - several scenes where key/sounder visible	Raymond Massey, Gene Lockhart, Ruth Gordon	John Cromwell	1940	Video/DVD
Action In The North Atlantic	Soviet fighter escorts send ...- (V) using the throttles of their aircraft	Humphrey Bogart, Raymond Massey, Alan Hale Sr	Lloyd Bacon	1943	Y Art G
Adam-12 (TV Series)	episode where the police officer is in an accident, microphone is broken. He cuts the wires & shorts it out to transmit code & communicate	Jim Reed, Gary Cosby, Martin Milner	several	1968-75	N Linda R
Against The Wind	a few short Morse scenes with excellent Morse sound during WWII - one sign off is code for PERIOD - wireless Morse unit hidden under manual sewing machine	Robert Beatty, Jack Warner	Charles Crichton	1953	N
Air Mail (also AirMail)	not true Morse but Morse ticker is used extensively by airport to receive weather updates - can hear it pounding quite nicely at times - also, Miller crashes his plane and used Morse hand signals (navy) to send message to planes above him DONT LAND CRASH SURE	Ralph Bellamy, Gloria Stuart, Pat O'Brien	John Ford	1932	N
Airplane!	Morse heard where news reporters tell of the impending crash of the airliner	Robert Hays, Julie Hagerty, Lloyd Bridges	Jim Abrahams	1980	Y Dan S, AA70A
Alexander Graham Bell	National Film Board of Canada - Eyewitness #90	-	Maurice Blackburn	1957	N
Alexander Graham Bell	A&E Biography	Alexander Graham Bell	Rich Davis	June 1997	Y
Alexander Graham Bell Voice of Invention	A&E Biography For Kids - a few scenes with bug heard & Western Union offices in Boston plus clips of a sounder & bug operating with Morse sound	Alexander Graham Bell	Jaffe Productions	1996	Y
Alone On The Ice (docudrama)	. interesting static shot of Dominion of Canada/Government Telegram Service message from/to Byrd . Byrd sending radio morse message from airplane over south pole . several short soundless scenes and one faint scene of morse sound & morse radio equipment	Admiral Richard Byrd, several of team members	Nancy Potter	1999	?
Alvarez Kelly	a few short scenes of weak morse in background - poor quality	Richard Widmark, William Holden	Edward Dmytryk	1966	Y
American Guerilla in the Philippines	Shows construction of a breadboard radio that allows stranded Navy personnel to contact San Francisco. Code also coordinated with field telephone to send information on Japanese ships and mine field	Tyrone Power, Michelle Prelle, Tom Ewell	Fritz Lang	1950	N Richard W KW0U
Angel and The Badman	terrific opening telegraph/Morse scene - Wayne must send telegram & orders op to send message - Partial Message: TERRITORIAL RECORDERS OFFICE FORT LANSING...PLOTS 234 235...RECORD IN MY NAME sig COURT EVANS	John Wayne, Gail Russell	James Edward Grant	1947	Y
An R.K.O. Radio Picture	Opening production screen to movies produced by R.K.O. Studios - code sent: VVVV AN RKO RADIO PICTURE VVVV	-	-	-	-
Anne of Green Gables	Several scenes of stations with telegraph operator, equipment - limited sound (maybe fake)	Megan Follows, Colleen Dewhurst, Richard Farnsworth	1985 on	Various	Video, DVD
Anne of Green Gables	Scenes of station with telegraph operator, equipment - poor sound	Anne Shirley, Tom Brown, OP Heggie	1934	George Nicholls	Video, DVD
Archaelogy-Searching for the Merrimac	TV series on HistoryTelevision - faint Morse for effect only to notify Washington of sinking	-	Tom Naughton	1990	N
Arizona Whirlwind	a few telegraph scenes, Morse clean & readable	Ernie Adams, John Bridges, George Cheseboro, Myrna Dell, Frank Ellis, Al Ferguson	Robert Emmett Tansey	1944	Y
Armoured Command	Using a secret radio powered by a sewing machine, a French collaborator contacts the German army	Howard Keel, Tina Louise, Warren Anderson, Burt Reynolds	Byron Haskin	1961	Y Richard W, KW0U
Around The World In 80 Days	Michael Palin's re-creation of the trip ard the world but in 4 months - last scene has ship-to-shore radio via Morse to Egyptian authorities - clear but short reading	Michael Palin	Roger Mills	1989	N
Around The World In Eighty Days	Morse in background in several town/city scenes	David Niven, Shirley MacLaine, Buster Keaton	Michael Anderson	1956	Y
Artic Disaster (docudrama)	story of Umberto Nobile's 1928 flight to North Pole in dirigible - several scenes, good morse of sending SOS after crash; also few scenes of faint morse from Japan	many Italian actors	Debbie Gordon (National Georgraphic)	1999	Y
Assault On A Queen	The Queen Mary signals a USCG Cutter by Morse signal lamp	Frank Sinatra, Virna Lisi	Jack Donohue	1968	Y Dan S, AA70A
Attack Force Z	good morse sound and easy to read BUT terribly bad acting with tin plate key	Mel Gibson, John Phillip Law	Tim Burstall	1981	Y
Avengers, The	TV Series - early episodes where Steed uses a hidden transmitter to send Morse	Patrick Macnee & Honor Blackman	Maurice Blackburn	1965-69	Y de Steve H KB0JYL
Avon Lea Also: Road To Avon Lea	TV Series - various episodes 'fake' Morse / train stations / steam trains	CBC Series	-	1970s	Y
Back To Bataan	Australian coast watcher HQ clearly seen using a bug to transmit back to Philippine resistance fighters (code not heard)	John Wayne, Anthony Quinn	Edward Dmytryk	1945	Y Charlie C, KA8OQF
Balto	animated story about a dog in Nome, Alaska, who saves the lives of a lot of people with diptheria by getting the lost antitoxin - 3 different scenes with a telegrapher & the dog (Morse!) under the desk	Kevin Bacon, Bridget Fonda, Phil Collins (voices)	Simon Wells	1995	Y Dwight (Dewey), W6AR and his wife!
Beat The Devil	Morse heard in background outside of ship's radio room	Humphrey Bogart	John Huston	1954	Y Dave L, KA7OBU
Bend of the River	stern wheeler 'River Queen' has a poster showing morse whistle signalling chart (not unlike railway whistle signals)	James Stewart, Arthur Kennedy, Rock Hudson	Anthony Mann	1952	Y
Bernard und Bianca im Känguruhland -or- Bernard and Bianca: Rescuers Down Under	very nice Morse scene where a mouse sends a message around the world to his friends in Morse Code-message: RESCUE AID SOCIETY...A LITTLE BOY IN TROUBLE...SEND HELP!	-	-	1997	Y Franz Matschl-Uhlig
Best Kept Secret 'D-Day,' The	a lot of Morse Code & straight keys - scene where the British spy 'Garbo' was sending code to Germany telling them that the Normandy Invasion was a diversion	-	History Channel Production	1995(?)	Y Dwight 'Dewey', W6AR
Betrayed	Excellent wireless Morse throughout when used - first scene has Gable tapping Morse on the stepboard of a wooden cart to send coded messages to England - neat Nazi triangulator scene to locate the cart - Morse training room scene and sending but hard to decipher - excellent but brief sending in Science lab by Turner	Clarke Gable, Lana Turner	Gottfried Reinherdt	1954	Y
Big Jake	good inside scene of station - in background three clear but quick shots of key, sounder and possibly relay behind John Wayne (no Morse though)	John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara, Richard Boone	George Sherman	1971	Y
Big Valley, The	TV Series - odd episode	Barbara Stanwyck	Various	1965-69	N
Bingo	story about a boy & his dog called Bingo - Bingo becomes a hero after calling 911 on a pay phone then tapping out the emergency on the hook switch	Cindy Williams, David Rasche	Matthew Robbins	1991	Y Stan A, WB6LAI
Blue Light	TV Series - Wireless Morse used to communicate back to England in a few episodes	Robert Goulet	various	1966	N
Bombardier	One brief scene of a bomber using a Morse lamp sending what looked like an SOS for a classroom demo	Pat OBrien, Randolph Scott, Eddie Albert	Richard Wallace	1943	Y
Bonanza	TV Series - early episodes	Lorne Greene	Various	1959-73	?
Breakheart Pass	has a scene where landline code is sent between a pole connection & fort	Charles Bronson	Tom Gries	1976	Y update Richard W, KW0U
Breaking The Codes - Breaking the Enigma	excellent material, explanations & deciphering methods on German enigma code machine during WWII - also several japanese sequences	docudrama	Norman de Lacy Evans	1990s	N
Breaking The Codes - Revealing The Enigma	excellent material, explanations & deciphering methods on German enigma code machine during WWII	docudrama	Norman de Lacy Evans	1990s	N
Breaking The Codes - Room 40	excellent Marconi scenes of equipment during WWI - vintage radio scenes & morse equipment - effective morse & radio at sea - establishment of Room 40 - morse signal lamps - Morse sound good	docudrama	Norman de Lacy Evans	1990s	N
Brides of Fu Manchu, The	Morse used to keep in touch with agents	Christopher Lee	Don Sharp	1966	N Steve H, KB0JYL
Bridge Under the Ocean	National Film Board of Canada	animated	Raymond Garceau	1957	N
Briscoe County, Jr., The Adventures of	. western spoof (one season 1993-94) . he & his friends chase a mysterious killer from the future who has global powers . in one episode: he sents his backers a telegram received in Latin & the op is corrected for misspelling a word	Bruce Campbell, Julius Carry	Bryan Spicer (directed pilot), various	1993-94	N update Linda KK1C
Britannic	a couple of wireless shack shots & transmission to spy who had a radio in a Bible(?) - heard DE	docudrama	?	19??	? Paul S
Richard E Byrd The Last Explorer	A&E Productions . Morse used by New York Times reporter to send stories out from Antartica -dubbed code used with scene . Morse used by 'Advance Team' to Byrd as flies to/over South Pole . Byrd seen alone in 'shack' receiving code, & by radio ops who knew something not right at 'Advance Base' so send rescue team out . Byrd seen keying Morse while turning electric generator for power	Richard E Byrd, et al	Paul Budline	August 1997	Y
Camp 'X'	docudrama on major spy centre in Canada during WWII where most spies used against Nazi's located (Oshawa, Ontario) - MANY scenes of morse equipment & training spy-ops - many sound sequences of code (but mostly gibberish sound effect)	actual members of Camp 'X'	Jeremy McCormack	1999	N
Camp X: Secret Agent School	EXCELLENT scenes of real Morse (wireless) with accurate dit-dah graphics, sound reading is great, easily readable scroll text matching Morse - Canadian HAM radio op David O'Keefe was selected as first agent - Morse Code instruction class scenes - many wireles scenes of wireless sets/use, and of "HYDRA" use - BEST Morse use in ages!	Rael Abrei, Michael Allcock et al	Alex McIntosh & Robin Bicknell	2014	Y
Cast A Giant Shadow	before Israel became a country, it learned of a Syrian raid, so the Jews attacked the Syrian fuel depot - after it was over, Morse used/heard being received telling of death of 3 Israeli's & a successful attack	Kirk Douglas, John Wayne, Angie Dickinson	Melville Shavelson	1966	Y
CFTO News, Toronto - Closure of MF Commercial Morse Services	excellent news capsule, history of Morse, & of closure of the MF Commercial Morse Services as of 31 Dec 1997 at midnight - the distress watch will now be carried out by satelite and computer beacons	operator from Cornwall, England seen & several historical Morse news clips	CFTO News, Toronto	December 31 1997	N
CJXY-FM (radio)	CJXY-FM, Hamilton, Ontario, aka Y95 uses CQ CQ in their own promos periodically; not sure who did this up for them but VE3CDX was at one time the chief engineer for the co-located TV transmitter CHCH-TV Hamilton	-	-	2000	N Andy M, VA3CW
CNR Pensioners	interviews of railway and morse men in Saskatoon Saskatchewan - excellent morse sound messages in background - also many scenes of old CN power in SK	many railway & CN agts/ops	OB Harvey	1997	N
Cadillac Desert	PBS show about the building of the Glenn Canyon Dam in Arizona - shows President Dwight Eisenhower setting off the first explosion for the dam construction in 1956 using a J37 or J38 type straight key	John Else (Episodes 1,2,3), Linda Harra (Episode 4)	PBS KCET Channel 8	19??	N Dwight W, W6AR
Cain Mutiny	. Morse signal lamp used to communicate between ships as the 3 officers make their way back to the Cain following an abortive attempt to see Adm. Halsey . message not readable but implication is fleet is ordered to sail and a severe weather warning is being issued	Humphrey Bogart, Jose Ferrer, Van Johnson	Edward Dmytryk	1954	Y Dan S, AA70A
Canada Remembers - World War II	3 Part Series dedicated to Canadian military during WWII - National Film Board of Canada - Morse segments brief - use of Morse Signal Lamp also	various	T Macartney-Filgate	1995	N
Canadian Nickel Commercial	Royal Canadian Mint advertising the Canadian nickel (5 cent piece) - no sound - shows the Morse code engraved around the 1943 to 1945 nickels - "WE WIN WHEN WE WORK WILLINGLY" - code starts at bottom between the E & N of CENTS & continues clockwise	-	Royal Canadian Mint of Canada	April 1999	N
The Canadians - Billy Miner, The Truth About the Grey Fox	TV series, History Channel Canada - Morse used with Pinkerton scene when trying to set up & track down Billy Miner, Canada's greatest train robber!	Billy Miner	Robert Duncan, Host: Patrick Watson	1989	Y
Canadian Pacific	Doesn't do the CPR any favours story-wise! some scenes with Morse at station/equipment	Randolph Scott, John Dehner	Edwin L Marin	1949	Y
Cannonball	TV series - story dealt with Canadian truck driver Mike Malone, his family, & partner Jerry Austin living in or near Toronto - Mike's son was interested in amateur radio - several episodes dealt with radio, Morse, & that the son was anxious to reach 18 so he could take the amateur exams	Paul Birch, William Campbell	Robert Maxwell producer	1958	N Ray H, NJ0G
Captain Horatio Hornblower	. 'interesting' use of 1795 Murray 6-shutter semaphore (pre-Morse Signal lamp-film depicts year 1807) . near end the use of the Claude Chappe wooden semaphore device in England (Plymouth)	Gregory Peck, Virginia Mayo, Robert Beatty	Raoul Walsh	1951	Y
Cars For Kids	Cars For Kids charity - radio broadcast on 680 News - sounds like repeated SOS throughout 30 second ad (hard to hear)	-	-	2017	N
Casey Jones	Syndicated TV Adventure one episode had Casey's son learning code Casey beats out SOS on the Cannonball's whistle when he hijacked later in the episode many episodes showed key & sounder at station, and often heard incoming message another episode where Red is pensioned off by the railway, later he finds a bridge washed out & encouraged by Casey's son climbed a telegraph pole & used his gold watch to send a warning message Episodes where Morse used that is clear, accurate, easy to read: A Badge for Casey Night Run Silk Train Lethal Journey One Way Ticket Dark Rider Night Mail Satan's Wail Lost Train The Race Way Station The Black Box Other episodes show 'Telegraph Office' signs or talk about sending or receiving a telegram	Alan Hale Jr, Dub Taylor, Bobby Clark, Mary Lawrence, Eddy Waller	Various	1957-8	(I got DVDs from MGM now)
Cash, Johnny	(A&E Biography) Johnny Cash, the singer, was an expert Morse op during Korean war - expert at deciphering code & sending (no sound but good still photos)	Johnny Cash	Lisa Ziff	1998	Y
Century of Warfare	episodal: too many to list, show Morse being used in WWI trenches, early years of WWII, Morse signal lamps with most ships - any one episode may have a scene/sound (generally poorly dubbed) of Morse	-	various	1988	Y
Charge of the Light Brigade, The	last scene in graphic drawing opening credits has an excellent animated drawing of "The Electric Telegraph" being pulled across the Dover Strait between Calais and Dover	Trevor Howard, John Gielgud, Vanessa Redgrave	Tony Richardson	1968	Y
Chartroose Caboose	Edgar Buchanan appears as a retired eccentric railway conductor sheltering people in his old railway van - Morse equipment	Edgar Buchanan	William 'Red' Reynolds	1960	N Gar D
Cheaper By The Dozen	In one scene the father tells the children that there will be no formal studies for them that summer. He pulls out a code key & tells them he's painted the code on the bathroom walls	Clifton Webb, Myrna Loy, Jeanne Crain	-	1950	N Mac, KB8YHV
Cheyenne	TV Series - early episodes to report cattle drive success or troubles 'on-the-trail'	Clint Walker	Leslie Martinson, Lee Sholem	1955-63	Y - some episodes
Cheyenne Autumn	opening scene has Richard Widmark entering 'Telegraph' tent to see if any news has been received - sounder goes off with excellent Morse of a US Senator's name later scene with newspaper op trying to send over wire but wires down (good shot of Dominion insulator) then starts jiggling the sounder and key to see why it won't send!	Richard Widmark, Karl Malden, Carroll Baker	John Ford	1964	Y
Chilis Grill & Bar	TV Commercial on A&E - rythmic pattern very interesting Morse sound effect	?	?	May 1997	N
Citizen Cohn	Radio announcer Walter Winchell is shown several times using a straight key tapping gibberish to announce his newscast (KOB in one scene with sounder)	James Woods, Joe Don Baker, Lee Grant	Frank Pierson	1992	Y
Citizen Kane	Stock ticker in background hardly audible in Mr Berstein's office	Orsen Wells, Joseph Cotton	Orsen Wells	1941	Y
Closely Watched Trains	. movie in Czechoslovakian with English subtitles - many good Morse scenes/sounds in Czech-Morse! . scenes/sounds of station's receiving paper tape recorder registers . female day op . lots of station/train signal bells	Vaclav Neckar, Josef Somr	Jiri Menzel	1966	Y
Cockleshell Heroes	Morse sound heard in background as German commander receives POWs answers to his written questionnaires	Jose Ferrer, Trevor Howard	Jose Ferrer	1955	N
Colditz (TV Series)	The Carrington Book Epsiode - although not directly Morse, it makes use of very interesting algorithms and secret coding practices that the Gestapo discover in Carrington's alleged book - codes discover reveal german politics, movements, military secrets	David McCallum, Robert Wagner	various	1980s	N
Vincent P Coleman	TV Commercial	Train Dispatcher Hero 1917 - Heritage Canada	na	1994	N
Combat!	TV Series/War Drama - some episodes using Morse Code with radio operations	Vic Morrow, Rick Jason, Dick Peabody	various	1962-67	N Currently on History Television (Canada)
Comedy Central	TV Commercial with CW playing continuous SOS	Comedy Channel	-	1996	N Joe B N3TTE
Contact	. At start of the movie you are taken back in time & pass increasingly older radio broadcasts including faint Morse Code at the end . Young Ellie used the call W9GFO to CQ TO K4WLD (although this qso occured on SSB & not MORSE), W9GFO is the real call of Robert Wilson (recent silent key) . orignally they were going to use call W9GFZ of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory Arc	Jodie Foster, Matthew McConaughey	Robert Zemeckis	1997	N George B, WA5HRC Update Joe R, W1EK CallSign Update Robert H, KF4OEG
Corvette K-225	In 1943, after losing his ship and many of his men, 'Mac' MacClain, Canadian Navy officer, returns to his home port - excellent Morse signal lamp used with Navy code(?) and Morse heard in background - also note music often imitates the Morse effect, especially S, O & S	Randolph Scott, James Brown, Ella Raines, Andy Devine	Richard Rosson	1943	N
Counterfeit Traitor, The	near end of film German patrol boat uses Morse signal lamp on Norwegian fishing boat - send S S S T S	William Holden, Lilli Palmer	George Seaton	1962	Y
Crime of the Century	after Hauptmann has been convicted of killing the Lindberg baby, there is a short scene with an operating Morse key, TTY, & Cable News connection (no sound)	Stephen Rea, Isabella Rossellini, JT Walsh, Michael Moriarity	Mark Rydell	1996	N
Cross of Iron	German radio man discovers transmitter wrecked but power still available so sends message in Morse by shorting wires! - only letters heard are S T E (likely for Steiner)	James Coburn, Maximillian Schell, James Mason	Sam Peckinpah	1977	Y
Cruel Sea, The	Morse signal lamps used in several scenes but do not match script spoken	Jack Hawkins, Virginia McKenna	Charles Fend	1953	Y
D-Day in 14 Stories	German radio room scene with very brief Morse that read like German for HELP ( HELFEN) - stories by Canadian, British, American, French, German war heroes	Several WWII war heroes	Robin Bicknell, Jamie Kastner	2019	?
Dairy Queen Commercial	commercial begins with Q as if announcing a weather 'blizzard' but actually for the Blizzard with M&M's at the DQ	-	-	March 1998	N
Dam Busters, The	Morse used plane to plane to report dams gone before takeoff code word 'goner' used to report bombing results-after each bomber makes its run 'goner' is used to report bomb dropped followed by letter indicating the aircraft - in Morse you hear GONER G, GONER P & GONER Z - listening op announces same	Richard Todd, Michael Redgrave	Michael Anderson	1954	Y update, Ron C
Danger Lights	Fabulous & accurate Morse from sounders, keys - an operator in the dispatcher office is typing and talking sounder and showing two copies with carbon paper between service telegram! lots of eye shades, some armwraps - many good scenes of towers, roundhouse, steam locomotives in action - some rare slang in a movie used like Boomer, Hoghead, Floater - the story line though is ummm pathetic	Louis Wolheim, Robert Armstrong, Jean Arthur	George B Seitz	1930	Y
Dark Command, The	. sending of telegrams with some Morse montages (American Civil War setting) . telegraph wire cut by sword . op scene but no key/sound	John Wayne,Claire Trevor, Walter Pidgeon, Roy Rogers	Raoul Walsh	1940	Y Greg, W8XP
Das Boot (The Boat)	Morse is used in the background as the sub launches & Morse signal lamps are used sub-to-sub on the surface	Jurgen Prochnow	Wolfgang Petersen	1981	Y Regis, N1KXE
Dawn of the Eye	Part One: Born Among Clowns	CBC Televison Mini-Series	Laine Drewery	Jan 1997	?
Days Of Our Lives	Soap-Opera (several episodes) late Dec1999-Jan2000. Using parts from an old record player & antique radio, the (usually evil) Stefano Dimera constructs a device which can transmit Morse Code on one frequency only, that of a Paris radio station. For several episodes, he (supposedly) taps out SOS signals to the radio station's disc jockey, who eventually hears the signal. Police are sent out to find the location from which the signal is being sent (the turret of a castle in the French countryside) but are thwarted in its efforts by the castle's caretaker, who later climbs onto the castle roof & just manages to rip down the antenna during a rainstorm before falling to the ground & lapsing into a coma for several days. The Morse code heard is complete gibberish.	-	-	Dec1999-Jan2000	N Susan M VE3MOG
Death On The Nile	when Hercule Poirot (Peter Ustinov) discovers a cobra in his bathroom he taps out SOS on the wall to alert Colonel Race (David Niven)	Peter Ustinov, David Niven, Angela Lansbury, Bette Davis, Mia Farrow	John Guillermin	1978	Y Greg G
Decoding Nazi Secrets	story of breaking German WWII military codes. Morse messages encoded on "Enigma" machines, & teletype on "Lorenz" machines. Codebreakers at Bletchley Park UK & Arlington Hall USA decoded messages first by hand. Later used a mechanical computer called a "bombe." Numerous film clips of German WWII military radio operations, mostly Morse. Background sound of random Morse groups. Several closeups of Morse operation (for atmosphere) with more than one key style of the era.	Numerous interviews with survivors (Allies/German)	NOVA docudrama	1999	N Charles C KA80QF
Delta Force, The	Norris & other Force team are communicating with an arriving Israeli landing craft by using Morse by flashlight - the landing craft replies with ship's light gun	Chuck Norris, Lee Marvin, Martin Balsam	Menahem Golan	1986	Y Kevin W
Denver & Rio Grande	Two competing railway companies battle weather, each other, love - best scene is a head on crash of two locomtovies! Several end of track Morse	Sterling Hayden	Byron Haskin	1952	Y
Desert Fox, The (The Story of Rommel)	an excellent opening scene of Morse signal lamp use sent & received from British submarine / several wireless scenes and 'thumping' key effects in Rommel's HQ	James Mason, Jessica Tandy, Cedric Hardwicke	Henry Hathaway	1951	Y
Destination Gobi	US navy weathermen in Inner Mongolia use Morse to keep in touch with their headquarters in China - one scene mentions needing a new 807 tube	Richard Widmark, Don Taylor, Casey Adams	Robert Wise	1953	N Richard W, KW0U
Destination Toyko	. submarine leaving San Francisco using Morse signal lamp & sends MSQ . signal lamp used to challenge airplane & see SM . landing party sends C (for 'clear') & J (for 'Danger Japanese Around') . music uses V pattern	Cary Grant, John Garland, Alan Hale Sr	Delmer Daves	1943	Y John Y, WD0FPY
Die Hard With A Vengeance	Willis finds a bomb on a train, he throws it out the window, at the precise moment the train hits the detinator that sends Morse code to the bomb setting it off	Bruce Willis, Jeremy Irons, Graham Greene	John McTierman	1995	Y AJ Fox, N9ONP
Dionne Quintuplets, The	excellent slow Morse heard behind scene of original CPR telegram sent announcing Quintuplets birth	The Dionne Family - Host:Pierre Berton	Donald Brittain	1998	Y
Dirigible	there are several scenes of the wireless shack using an early tube set - Morse is gibberish	Jack Holt, Fay Wray	Frank Capra	1931	? Joe L, N2ADP
Discovery Channel	promotional ad for television channel includes some fast clear Morse	?	?	1999	N
Dodge City	several visual scenes of morse with action around building of the Sante Fe railroad	Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Ann Sheridan	Warner Brothers	1940s	N
Dogs of War, The	very brief Morse gibberish near end of film where mercenary sends prepared audio tape from ship-to-shore about land attack - SOMSE heard	Christopher Walken, Tom Berenger, Colin Blakely	John Irvin	1980	Y
Donald Duck (cartoon)	Donald, as a child, is on his way to school; there is a struggle between the 'good' & 'bad' aspects of his conscience & while walking past a rural mailbox, the flag points at Donald & beats out in beautifully modulated international Morse CW tone: HEY KID	Donald Duck	Walt Disney	19??	N Robert W VE9HT (ex-VE1HN, exx-VE1BOR)
Donovan's Reef	John Wayne signals a warning to Jack Warden - by manually switching on and off a harbor jetty light as Lee Marvin dicates a message. Jack Warden responds using his hands - morse likely jibbersih	John Wayne, Jack Warden, Lee Marvin	John Ford	1963	Y TR Hicks
Doomed Voyage of the St. Louis, The (see also: Voyage of the Damned)	Captain Schroder of the SS St.Louis receives a telegram - Roosevelt states he would noy accept the Jews but leaders in Belgium, France, Holland, England said they would help save over 900 Jews onboard the ship - see straight key - also receive messages from Belgium, France, Holland, England	Oskar Werner, Faye Dunaway, Orsen Wells	Stuart Rosenberg	1976	Y Dwight, W6AR
Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman	TV Series	Jane Seymour	various	1993-6	na
Dynamite Denny	several visual scenes of morse and a girl station agent with president solving all problems in a logical manner	-	Lewis Film Service	1941	N

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of QST Amateur Radio Magazine,
April 1997, Page 58

On July 22, 1998, this site was mentioned in the Toronto Star under: SOS! Morse Code Is Sinking