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| Raid On Rommel | . use of Morse signal lamp as British ships bomb Tobruk (hard to read) . as movie ends hear weak Morse in background as Edward R Murro talks about successful bombing raid | Richard Burton, John Colicos, Wolfgang Preiss | Henry Hathaway | 1971 | Y |
| Railroaders | scenes of CPR Glacier railway station - inside op using key & telephone coded ringers (no sound) - other scenes include rail walkers, old hand cars, CPR 'The Canadian,' switch tenders, Rogers Pass & CPR 4033 | actual CPR employees | National Film Board of Canada | 1957 | N |
| Railway Station Man, The | use of signal hut bells for passenger train and staff system | Julie Christie, Donald Sutherland | Michael Whyte | 1993 | Y |
| Rasputin - The Mad Monk | Biography on A&E | Rasputin | Bram Roos | March 1997 | Y |
| Rat Patrol, The | TV series - one show has Private Pettigrew clicking nonsense Morse over radio transmitter - another episode Troy sends Morse in code - sound is good but his keying is dreadful as nothing makes sense (another good example of poorly done Morse sound) | Christopher George, Gary Raymond, Lawrence Casey | various | Sept 1966-Sept 1968 | N |
| Rawhide | TV Series | Clint Eastwood | Charles Marquis Warren | 1959-66 | Y |
| Real Inglorious Bastards, The | several good and accurate Morse wireless scenes of sound, sets | Fred Mayer, Patrick O'Donnell, Hans Wijnberg, Robert Nolan et al | Min Sook Lee | 2012 | Y |
| Red Tent, The | several excellent scenes & good sound for decoding Morse from the airship 'Italia' as it makes its way to the North Pole - reports latitude & longtitude mostly | Sean Connery, Claudia Cardinale, Peter Finch | Mikhail K Kalatozov | 1970 | Y |
| Remembering Canada At War - 6 Part Series | Morse seen & heard on Canadian navial ships - ships sending SSS SSS SSS to indicate UBoat sightings - several other sequences & scenes of Morse operational training and use from ships & planes - fabulous war series | historical documentary | Richard Neilsen | 1995 | Y |
| Return of Frank James, The | - | Henry Fonda | Arthur Hilton | 1939 | Y |
| Ribbons of Steel - Alberta Railway Museum | Life Channel - Jim Munsey demonstrates use of bug for train orders/sketch history of telegraph in Canada | Jim Munsey, Harry Home (CNR 6060) | Joseph Metzmeg | 1997 | N |
| Richard III (1995) | Morse heard & soldier seen using a straight key just before a tank rolls through the wall & other soldiers start shooting everyone in the room | Ian McKellan, Annette Bening | Richard Loncraine | 1995 | Y Dwight, W6AR |
| Riel | CBC Production of Riel's life - Morse heard when news sent of Riel's Provisional Government being accepted by Macdonald | Raymond Cloutier, Leslie Neilson, Barry Morse, Christopher Plummer, William Shatner | George Bloomfield | 1980 | N |
| Road to Avonlea, The | CBC TV Series | na | various | 1993 | ? |
| Roar of the Rails | TV Series - 15 minutes per episode | na | various | 1948-9 | ? |
| Roswell Coverups and Close Encounters | You will hear 'VVV VVV' in code just before the AM radio voice telling you about a downed UFO | ? | ? | 19?? | ? Dwight W, W6AR |
| Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines | commercial for Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines to be a promo for their sponsorship of the Superbowl Halftime show in 1998...we worked on one concept and built some "test" spots using Morse...spots were simple: ship in the background, with full-up Morse audio & the text being translated as type on the screen. The message was basically "Stay tuned for the Royal Caribbean/Celebrity Cruise Lines Halftime Show". I recorded the code myself, using the keyer in my Icom 706. I mixed in some 40 meter background noise. This was a 10 second promo & I discovered that I was only going to be able to send a small part of the message without going upwards of 40 wpm. This is why some of the "cheating" with Morse in the movies has to happen... it just takes too long to send real copy. The text being typed on-screen had to move swiftly to be completed before the 10 seconds were up. Unfortunatly, the concept was killed | Royal Cruise Lines | ? | 1998 | N Gary P, KN4AQ |
| Rio Lobo | excellent opening morse scenes of keys, sounder, sound, clear code, telegraph lines, operator dress & some fabulous steam railroad photography - very authentic! | John Wayne | Howard Hawks | 1970 | Y |
| Run Silent, Run Deep | Clark Gable becomes the captain of a submarine that Burt Lancaster was to command / sub sets out from Pearl Harbor to destroy a Japanese cruiser | Clark Gable, Burt Lancaster | Robert Wise | 1958 | Y Anthony F, WN6Q |
| Sabaru | TV Commercial - Morse heard in the background of a voice transmission from base camp to the Subaru driver | - | - | 1997 | N George B, WA5HRC |
| Sacrifice At Pearl Harbour | A&E Documentary - deals with radio intercepts before WWII that pointed to the attack on Pearl Harbour | - | BBC Productions | 1992? | N George B, WA5HRC |
| Santa Fe | Scene in telegraph office where operator overhears message being sent to rival railroad | Randolph Scott, James Carter, Jerome Courtland | - | 1951 | N Richard W, KW0U |
| Santa Fe Trail | . Morse telegram sent: 18 CITIZENS OF HARPERS FERRY KILLED 33 WOUNDED BY JOHN BROWNS INVADERS IN OPEN REBELLION (code very hard to hear) . excellent scene with operator wearing traditional eye shades & arm bands, plus sounder, relays, key | Errol Flynn, Ronald Reagan, Alan Hale Sr, Raymond Massey | Michael Curtiz | 1940 | Y |
| Scorched Earth | several visual scenes & jibberish morse of cracking codes before & during WWII | WWII documentary | ? | 1987 | N |
| Duncan Campbell Scott:The Poet & The Indians | (docudrama TVO and HistoryTelevison(Canada)) good slow Morse heard with several telegram visuals but code doesn't match messages - code ends with 'SHE' | RH Thompson | James Cullingham | 1995 | N |
| Sea Chase, The | one clear scene with Morse signal lamp from British destroyer signaling: WAR | John Wayne, Lana Turner, James Arness | John Parrow | 1955 | Y |
| Sea Tales | A&E documentary - Episode: Dunkirk Rescue, The - Morse signal lamps used between navy ships as advance to Dunkirk to rescue Canadian, British, French & Begian troops off Dunkirk beach | various | Melissa Jo Peltier | 1997 | Y |
| Sea Tales | A&E documentary - Episode: Halifax Explosion, The - *excellent* recreation & interviews of the explosion in Halifax Harbor 06 Dec. 1917 - Vincent P Coleman redramatized with Morse key but message sent incorrect - see also Vincent P Coleman - Movies A to H | various | Melissa Jo Peltier | 1997 | Y |
| Sea Tales | A&E documentary - Episode: USS Maine - Morse heard in background as describe telegram sent by Captain about the explosion & sinking of The Maine | various | Jim Milio | 1997 | Y |
| Sea Tales | A&E documentary - Episode: Morro Castle - key & sound heard sending SOS about fire on board ship / radio op hailed as hero for standing by post but later, after investigation, charged with attempted murder | various | Melissa Jo Peltier | 1997 | Y |
| Sea Tales | A&E documentary - Episode: Story of U110 (capture of the Enigma) | various | Patrick Tull (narr) | 1996/7 | Y |
| Sea Wolves, The | near end of film, Peck is hunting for radio room & German code books on German ship - Germans begin transmitting wireless Morse on naval key sending EIEIEEEI - they state in German that they are not being received | Gregory Peck, Roger Moore, David Niven, Trevor Howard, Barbara Kellerman, Patrick Macnee | Andrew V McLaglen | 1980 | Y |
| Sealed Cargo | about a Nazi square rigger supplying Nazi subs off coast of Canada - in one scene a Nazi agent is tuning up a transmitter & the procedure look accurate and Morse sounds good | Dana Andrews, Claude Rains | Alfred L Werker | 1951 | N |
| Secret Agent | TV series - John Drake (Patrick McGoohan) tapping out message in morse out a window | Patrick McGoohan | various | 1961-6 | N Elliot C |
| Secret Service | - | na | na | na | na |
| Secrets of the Titanic | National Georgraphic Society - story of Dr Ballard's search & discovery of Titanic - dive scene of 'Alvin' where 'Atlantis II' answered by single Morse R instead of sonar voice | documentary | Nat Geo Soc | 1987 | Y Charlie C, KA8OQF |
| Secrets of World War II (series) | advertising for series on History Channel (Canada) & opening title sequences concludes with Morse key clicking away | TV series on History Channel (Canada) | various | 1998 | N |
| Sergeant Rutledge | no morse sound but some excellent scripting about telegrams, & agent gard (although scene has him dead) | Woody Strode, Jeffrey Hunter, Constance Towers | 1960 | Y | |
| Silver Streak | Train journey to deliver an iron lung to a Nevada town - ineffective use of Morse (not related to 1979 Movie) | Sally Blaine, Charles Starrett | Thomas Atkins | 1934 | Y |
| Ships With Wings | a drama set around HMS Ark Royal in WWII & the first Royal Navy pilots to fly from aircraft carriers; lots of good propaganda showing how the Royal Navy is always the best - with morse they're testing a new spitfire & when they check what altitude it can reach for some reason they can't use voice when they're very high (oxygen masks & helmets without radio?) so they report their altitude with a morse key. | John Clements, Leslie Banks, Michael Rennie & Jane Baxter | Sergei Nolbandov | 1941 | ? Steve C |
| Signal Tower | Morse, signal bells, train whistles BUT all silent film work | silent film | Metropolitian Motion Picture Co | 1928 | N |
| Simon & Simon (TV Series) | episode with Peter Graves as a news caster announcer & gibberish Morse in background | James Parker, Gerald McRaney, Eddie Barth, Peter Graves | several | Nov 1981-Dec 1988 | N |
| Simon & Simon (TV Series) | TV Series - episode on Toxic Waste - after crimnals shoot the telephone and damage the mouthpiece, Rick Simon sends SOS to the police department so it can be traced | Jameson Parker, Gerald McRaney, Eddie Barth | several | Nov 1981-Dec 1988 | N |
| Sink The Bismarck! (movie) | excellent opening scene with old WWII key but poor acting & sound dubbing (although sound excellent) . also 3 short Morse signal lamps | Kenneth More, Dana Wynter | Lewis Gilbert | 1960 | Y |
| Sink the Bismarck (documentary) | wireless Morse used in following scenes: . 20 May 1941 - worry about the commerce ship raids to England . 21 May 1941 - decoding British code . 22 May 1941 - wireless radio room effect . 24 May 1941 - British Morse naval signal lamp signs message "HOOD SUNK" . 25 May 1941 - HMS Suffolk keys "LOST BISMARCK" - Bismarck also sends unimportant wireless messages allowing British to re-find Bismarck . Resistance fighters radio in a report on its location | A&E Docudrama - A&E Productions Ltd | Robert Kirk | 1996 | Y - update D Cox, AA3EK |
| Six Million Dollar Man, The | Col. Austin flying a Ryan Navion along with General & 2 passengers; they run into severe weather and lose the ability to transmit. During crisis you hear BXY in background presumably from ground station. Also, to communicate with the tower Austin (incorrectly) uses the IDENT button on the transponder to tap out morse code. (NOTE: Dan's a pilot & adds the show was beset with a million technical errors!) | Lee Majors, Richard Anderson | various | 1973-78 | Y Dan S, AA70A |
| Some Famous Beginnings | several visual scenes of morse during 1940s | sponsored by YMCA | Motion Picture Bureau | 1937? | N |
| Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em | theme song was based on its title in Morse code | Michael Crawford | BBC | 19?? | N Mentler |
| Somme 1916: Both Sides of the Wire | Three part Series - Part 2: two brief scenes of World War One wireless Morse with rare footage from the British bi-planes where the key is mounted on the side of the plane not in the cockpit - sound is dubbed (even without the Morse this is an incredible series) | Peter Barton | Peter Barton | 2016 | Y |
| Sons of Katie Elder, The | opening scene with steam train & station & operator working in bay window background (no Morse heard) | John Wayne, Dean Martin, Earl Holliman, George Kennedy | Henry Hathaway | 1965 | Y |
| Soul of the Game | baseball game about Jackie Robinson & some Morse code heard on the radio station just before Jackie checks into a hotel | Delroy Lobo, Mykelti Williamson, Blair Underwood | Kevin Rodney Sullivan | 1996 | Y Dwight W, W6AR |
| S.O.S. Soap Pads | TV Commercial | ? | - | Nov-Dec 1996 | N |
| S.O.S. Titantic | several scenes in Morse radio room sending Morse (mostly gibbersih) / several good shots of wire equipment & key | David Janssen, Cloris Leachman, Susan Saint James | William Hale | 1979 | Y |
| Space: Above and Beyond | Episode The River of StarsMorse code being sent to the Marines giving them directions on how to save themselves | - | various | 19?? | ? Mary J, N0TRK |
| Space Ghost Coast to Coast | CQ briefly heard during usual chaos - animated series, episode 22 | animation | - | 1996 | N Richard, KW0U |
| Spacecamp | about 3/4s of the way through the movie is a switch for some nonvital system to send Morse | Kate Capshaw, Lea Thompson, Tom Skerritt | Harry Winder | 1986 | Y Sandi C, N7UIC |
| Spies | TV Series - History Channel Documentary - numerous audible code used throughout the series | - | - | 1997 | ? George B, WA5HRC |
| Spies - Red Orchestra | TV Series on History Televison (Canada) - excellent sound from straight key, bugs, radio Morse ops called 'Piano players' during WWII spying for Russia / good scenes with German Radio Detection Finders | - | Anthony Potter | 1992 | N(?) |
| Spirit of '43 | Cartoon stars Donald Duck - war propaganda cartoon encouring citizens to pay their taxes when due - Donald gets his pay & is torn between paying his taxes & going to a barroom with swastika shaped swinging wooden doors; he punches the bad guy who slams through the swastika doors & wooden pieces fall into the shape of a "V" (for Victory) with 4 chunks of wood dropping underneath as dit dit dit dah | Donald Duck | Walt Disney Studios | 1943 | Y Linda R, KK1C |
| Spirit of St. Louis (The) | A rare scene of a newspaper reporter typing with the all-caps style of typewriter used by the railways for taking Morse messages, typing orders, telegrams etc | Jimmy Stewart, Patricia Smith | Billy Wilder | 1957 | Y |
| Spy In Black, The | several Morse (wireless) scenes from British Naval commander's HQ - Morse slow & easily heard but broken up | Conrad Veidt, Valerie Hobson | Michael Powell | 1939 | Y |
| Stagecoach (1939) | hear op receiving 'JERONIMO' (good sound) - in same scene see wonderful series of gravity (crowfoot) batteries on ledge in front of op | John Wayne, Claire Trevor, John Carradine | John Ford | 1939 | Y |
| Stairway to Heaven | aka: A Matter of Life and Death - lots of Morse occurs while watchers in Heaven look down on earth & discuss "confusion in the air" of voice & Morse | David Niven, Kim Hunter, Raymond Massey | Michael Powell | 1946 | N |
| Stalingrad | amazing WWII movie from German perspective - one small Morse scene where General is planning attack & soldier is warned about behaviour - Morse in background sometimes hard to read but hear SONN a few times (English subtitles) | Thomas Kreischmann, Jochen Nickel, Sebastian Rudolph | Joseph Vilsmaier | 1993 | Y |
| Starpage.com | starpage.com begins their radio ad on 96.3FM in Toronto with Morse in the background - advertising their internet services using Morse! | - | - | April 1999 | N |
| Star Trek | Original & Series - Episode Space Seed: upon encountering the SS Botany Bay Lt Uhurha hears 'CQ CQ CQ' on the bridge - Kirk announces it was meant to cause attention! | Nichelle Nichols, William Shatner | Marc Daniels | 1961-70 | Y PHXGraham, KE1BW |
| Star Trek | Episode: 'The 37's' - Aired 08/28/95, Episode Code #820 - old style of SOS comes from an airplane found on a planet (likely pickup truck floating in space ca1940s in design) - the SOS leads them to a planet where they find a bunch of missing people (kidnapped by aliens?) | Nichelle Nichols, William Shatner | Marc Daniels | 1995 | Y Kevin P, KB0POW |
| Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home | - | William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley et al | Leornard Nimoy | 1986 | Y Ron H, AH6RH |
| Star Trek V: The Final Frontier | Kirk, Spock & McCoy are locked in the brig; they hear Morse Code being tapped on the wall "Stand Back" before Scotty blows the wall out to rescue them | William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley et al | Leornard Nimoy | 1986 | Y Mary J, N0TRK |
| Star Trek #9, Insurrection | towards the end when Captain Picard gives Worf the order to destroy 'The Collector' & as Worf moves towards the control panel you hear 66 in CW - code has nothing to do with scene except the sensor sounds emitted just happened to sound like Morse Other details at: Insurrection | Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, Brent Spiner | Jonathan Frakes | 1998 | N Ron H, AH6RH |
| Star Wars Episode 1:The Phantom Menace | early portions, Qui-Gon Jinn, is cutting through the blast doors with the light saber to get access to the "bad guys"; just prior to it, as they make their way through the space station; morse code occurs as Jedi Knights Qui-Gon Jinn & Ben Kenobi the bridge of the Trade Federation blockade ship and the captain orders the blast doors closed. The setting for morse is when the ship caring the "ambassadors" approaches the Trade Federation blockade orbiting the planet of Naboo . The one I really heard CW was as Darth Maul, the Sithian lands on planet Tatooine and begins to scan through his binoculars. You can hear a series of CW characters in the front left channel, the last letter being "H" | Liam Neeson, Jake Lloyd, Natalie Portman | George Lucas | May 1999 | N Ron H, AH6RH |
| Star Trek: First Contact | the eyepieces of the board flash Morse Code of names of people associated with the production! | Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, Brent Spiner, LeVar Burton | Jonathan Frakes | 1996 | Y Leif Arne S |
| Steel Sharks | several scenes with Morse | Gary Bussey | Cabin Fever Enterprizes #CF236 | 1998 | Y Dan S, AA70A |
| Station X | excellent opening scene with Morse keying STATION X in morse - many excellent morse scenes & sound - excellent analysis of German 'Engima' & British 'Colossus' (world's first programmable computer not the US one) | actual people of station X at Bletchley Park | Peter Bate | 1997 | N |
| Stay With The Dead | Space: Above and Beyond: 1995 episode-Stay with the Dead rough Morse is sent to astronauts telling them how to use a comet's gravity to move disabled ship. Space station leader comments that all officers learn the code | Morgan Weisser, Kristen Cloke, Rodney Rowland | various | 1995 | N Richard W KW0U |
| Story of Alexander Graham Bell, The | . several small scenes with some di-dahs but nothing dramatic . scenes with telegraph have interesting keys & sounders (not all Bunnells) . never lets on Canadian invention but does mention Brantford where invented! | Don Ameche, Loretta Young, Henry Fonda | Irving Cummings | 1939 | N |
| Sub Down (aka Crush Depth) | made for TV movie - in a submarine's control room scientists short-circuit the lights to communicate with trapped crew members | Stephen Baldwin, Gabrielle Anaar, Tom Conti | Gregg Champion | 1997 | ? Richard W, KW0U |
| Subaru Forester AE - Commercial | Morse code in background while lady driver and radio operator talk through mics - very faint but there | Paul Hogan | Subaru Production | 1998 | N |
| Subway Sandwiches | sandwich store is printing on the Kid's Pack bags the International Morse Code & a short history of the code! | - | - | 1998 | Y Dan S, AA70A |
| Suddenly | GREAT inside station scene with sounder clicking, upside down Prince Albert, wall phone, CTC board, & some good steam and early diesel shots | Sterling Hayden, Frank Sinatra | Lewis Allen | 1954 | Y |
| Superman | TV Series - some scenes in Perry White's office has a Morse newspaper ticker sounding off! | George Reeves, Phyllis Coates(Lois), John Hamilton(Perry White) | Various | 1951-1957 | N (Summer 1996 re-runs!) |
| Suzuki Commercial | TV commercial for Suzuki cars - morse easily heard as SSS near end | - | - | 2000 | N |
| Tall In The Saddle | no Morse but a short wonderful scene with railway station agent dressed in traditional garb | John Wayne, "Gabby" Hayes, Ward Bond | Edwin L Marin | 1944 | Y |
| Tall Target, The | one major scene of excellent & accurate Morse from a sounder in the railway station - several scenes of telegrams from the Eastern Electric Telegraph Company, many wonderful steam train/locomotive scenes - first movie ever heard the use of "...sending a telegram by magnet telegraph" - movie about plot to kill Abe Lincoln on a train in Feb 1861 | Dick Powell, Paula Raymond, Will Geer | Anothony Mann | 1951 | Y |
| Telegraph Trail | Crew is constructing the first USA cross-country telegraph through the West and Indian attacking line - several Morse scenes | John Wayne, Frank McHugh | Tenny Wright | 1933 | Y |
| The Adventurers | Episode: 'Across The Sea Of Time' - story of Thor Heyerdahl - on-board movie footage shows radio op Knut Haugland sending CW from station LI2B (raft) to New York expedition HQ - (Note: Haugland spent WWII as resistence radio op, operating transmitter from Norway allowing Allies to bomb & sink German battleship 'Tirpitz' - call LI2B reissued to Heyerdahl's later expeditions of RA & RAII) | PBS documentary | - | 1997 | ? Charlie C, KA8OQF |
| The American Experience-Rescue At Sea | TV Series, PBS-EXCELLENT documdrama about Marconi wireless & ships 'Florida' & 'Republic' colliding - many excellent scenes of early Marconi wireless equipment, sound, archival photos - first wireless op to send 'CQD' was Jack Binns from ship, Jan 23 1909 | PBS documentary | Margaret Drain (producer) | 1999 | Y |
| The Battle of the River Plate (US Title: Pursuit of the Graf Spee) | a lot of signalling between the Royal Navy ships before & during the attack on the Graf Spee by Aldis Lamp | Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger | John Gregson, Anthony Quayle, Peter Finch | 1957 | Y Steve C |
| The Boat | (silent) Keaton sends an SOS during a storm - since film silent the actual morse probably differed according to who was playing the organ in the theatre | Buster Keaton | - | 1921 | N Scott N |
| The Century That Broke The Silence | Canadian National Railways film produced by CBC Television - deals with the telegraph from NWT, Yukon, across Canada, Collins Telegraph into development and use of telephone - terrific & accurate Morse sound by Col. Lockhart | - | CNR & CBC | 1974 | N |
| The Glory Brigade | During the Korean War Mature sends a voice message in their language to a Greek brigade, which then relays it in code to the US hq | Victor Mature, Alex Scourby, Lee Marvin | Robert Webb | 1953 | Y Richard W, KW0U |
| The Great Locomotive Chase | a Walt Disney film based on the book & true story of "Andrew's Raider's" who captured a Confederate railroad train during US Civil War - many excellent scenes with accurate Morse, equipment, telegraph wires | Fess Parker, Jeffrey Hunter, Jeff York | Francis D Lyon | 1956 | N (regrettably!) |
| The Great March | on History Television(Canada) - march of the North West Mounted Police across Canadian Praires - bug used to transmit messages for Col. French from Ottawa where government approves leaving a strong force at Belly River 1874 / good sound | actuals & actual clips | Roger Cardinal | 1999 | N |
| The Great Math Mystery | on NOVA - terrific explanations and demos of electric wireless & magnetic waves, Marconi wireless, receivers, antenna development - sound good especially SOS for Titanic scene - several scenes of old keys | actors | Jay O Sanders | 2015 | Y |
| The Horse Soldiers | Confederates at Newton Station, MS send a telegraph message for reinforcements before the Yankees cut the telegraph lines. a Yankee cavalryman named Dunker dies from an infected leg that was injured while chopping down a telegraph pole | John Wayne, William Holden, Hoot Gibson | John Ford | 1959 | Y Russ O |
| The Imitation Game | Right at the beginning accurate Morse above background credits and opening scene - several brief scenes of wireless Morse key and accurate sound - good encryption scene of random letters and Morse operators | Benedict Cumberbatch, Keira Knightly, Matthew Goode | Mortem Tyldum | 2014 | Y |
| The Lion Has Wings | an episodic film: each episode shows how we're ready to face the Nazi hordes - One section is about a bombing raid on Nazi ships in the Kiel Canal. A bomber flies over a Royal Navy destroyer who flashes "Good luck" on the Aldis lamp. The bomber replies "Thanks" from a convenient signal lamp fixed underneath it-although it looks like it's facing down & forwards & the bomber had already flown over the destroyer. Another one for the GOOFS file | Merle Oberon, Ralph Richardson, June Duprez | Michael Powell, Adrian Brunel & Brian Desmond Hurst | 1939 | ? Steve C |
| The Man Who Never Was | agent in a hotel room using a suitcase radio telegraph key - two scenes like this / NOTE: Morse sound is by flute obligato not real Morse sound!!! | Clifton Webb, Gloria Grahame, Robert Flemyng | Ronald Neame | 1955 | Y John Y, WD0FPY |
| The New Addams Family (TV Series) | 'Thing' has been thing-napped & the Family is trying to find 'Thing' - they check his answering machine & a Morse coded message comes out! good code but happened so fast I missed the message | Glenn Taranto, Ellie Harvie | various | 1998 | N |
| The Pier Museum | a new museum attraction opening in Toronto, Ontario called The Pier Museum includes "... learn a new code..." with Morse Bunnell key demo | sponser is History TV (Canada) | - | Dec 1998 | N |
| The Rifleman | TV Series - some episodes | Chuck Connors, Johnny Crawford | various | 1958-1963 | Y |
| The Scoobie Doo Show (Cartoon) | Episode: Scoobie Doo and the Gold Thieves . Thelma sends SOS OUR POSITION IS ... using a fishing rod with a led sinker while one of the sea monsters sleeps in the Radio Room (code effect good!) . heroes Fred and his girlfriend are trapped by the sea monsters in an empty storage room and bang out SOS on the side (good code also) | Scoobie Soo, Thelma, Fred et al | Charles A Nicholes / Hanna-Barbera Productions | 1976 | N |
| The Simpsons | TV Series - episode where son is caught in snow storm and uses Morse (dit's & dah's go across TV screen & right into the Smithsonian Institute to a sounder and key next to where the code just falls on the deaf ears of the Samuel Morse statute!) | Homer, Bart, Marge, et al | various | 1989 to date | Y Dwight, W6AR update, Worf |
| The Sound and The Silence | . early scenes of Alexander Bell with Morse key but only taps . one 'horrifying' scene where Bell sweeps two keys into a garbage pail after deciding to work only on the telephone . long distance test scenes of phone in Paris & Brantford, Ontario stores near end are exceptional for Morse accuracy, use, visuals | John Bach, Ian Bannen, Elizabeth Quinn | John Kent Harrison | 1992 | Y |
| The Sting | there is a ten second segment where an FBI agent is sending a message to FBI headquarters in Washington DC | Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Robert Shaw | George Roy Hill | 1973 | Y Greg S, WB3EBB |
| The Streak (song) | In the song "The Streak" by Ray Stevens, there are several "openings" where there is a voice over by Ray pretending to be a news reporter covering where a streaking has just occured. You hear morse code in the background to add to the effect of a breaking news story http://www.cdnow.com/cgi-bin/mserver/pagename=/RP/CDN/FIND/album.html/itemid=325575/from=cr-6135437 | Ray Stevens | Ray Stevens | 19?? | Y Ron H, AH6RH |
| The Texas Rangers | some scenes of telegraphy being used | George Montgomery, Gale Storm, Jerome Courtland, Noah Berry | Phil Karlson | 1951 | Y Richard W, KW0U |
| The Toughest Man in Arizona | A telegrapher (Harry Morgan) helps a gang by building a key and tapping into the line - several scenes with code being read | Vaughn Monroe, Joan Leslie, Edgar Buchanan, Victor Jory | RG Springsteen | 1952 | Y Richard W. KW0U |
| The Untouchables (TV Series) | TV Series - Episode: 'The St. Louis Story' - two brief scenes with stockticker working & faint sound - also night time roadside meeting Ness flashes A with headlights & receives M from gangster's headlights | Robert Stack, Jerry Paris, Anthony George | various (this episode: E Koch) | 1959-63 (Series) | N |
| The Way We Were - The Canadians | TV Series on History Television (Canada)- Episode: 'The Canadians' - scene of lady op working bug in Artic & one railway op (no sound) | National Film Board of Canada | various (this episode: Tom Daly) | 1959 (Series) | N |
| Them! | Very short scene of the radio room of a ship. Radio operator is pounding away at a bug as a rather larger bug (a giant ant) comes crashing into the room. Radio operator stops sending & picks up revolver & blasts away. Morse didn't seem to go with sending. Some copyable morse characters but too much other noise | James Whitmore, James Arness, Fess Parker | Gordon Douglas | 1954 | Y Wilfred G |
| Thirteen Days | Two scenes: 1)When the Navy frigate is reporting back that the Soviet freighters are turning around, you see the radio opr banging out morse on navy knobs & hear code-sounds like "S F" 2)When the Navy frigate is signalling another Soviet freighter to stop & be boarded for inspection, US Navy signalman flashes morse on light morse blinker | - | - | - | ? Ron H, AH6RH |
| Titanic (1997) | (disappointingly weak on Morse when compared to other movies about Titanic) . (update RGB) while playing simulation for Rose Dawson, robot operator states Titanic likely '...bounced off iceberg like Morse Code dit dit dit'(S) . Captain goes to the radio room & gives word to send distress signal . the two radio ops are there; the one next to the key turns & starts tapping . Morse letter S(?) started but script is calling for CQD & scene ends - that's it! | Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Gloria Stuart | James Cameron | 1997 | n/a Ron H, AH6RH update RGB |
| Titanic | wireless Morse | Barbara Stanwyck | Jean Negulesco | 1953 | Y |
| Titanic | wireless Morse | George C Scott | Robert Liebermann | 1996 | ? |
| Titanic: 20 Years Later | wireless Morse scene and reconstruction 20 years was false, not accurate (radio room constructed & based on the Olympic) - after last dive discovered there was much less in Titanic radio room / keyed CQD and SOS - some sound - also found operators saved lives by breaking rules | James Cameron & other researchers | Richard Brehem | 2017 | ? |
| Titanic: Death of a Dream aka Anatomy of a Disaster | wireless Morse - sometimes difficult to hear as layered with narrator David McCallum and music - clearly identify ops Jack Phillips & Hal Bride | A & E Presents through Greystone Productions | Melissa J Pelletiere | 1994 | Y - *updated* by Stan, W5JYK |
| Titanic LIVE | Discovery Channel presents Live feeds from Titanic - towards end, live shot of radio room and some unidentified radio equipment (switchboard appearance almost) floating - terrific computer generated graphic of radio room (accuracy in question) - several sequences of Morse keys and SOS in background - see images at Discovery Channel Link | Discovery Channel Production | many researchers, scientists | 16 August 1998 | N |
Titanic (National Geographic) | following is a communications extract from the National Geographics 1987
film about this quest between Alvin and Atlantis II(A2) "Alvin this is A2." "Go ahead" "Roger Ralph. We have the tracking running well and the bow section should be ...uhh... range of about 800 metres bearing two three zero degrees;over." " . - ." Morse for Roger (received and understood) There was no explanation for digressing into Morse code | National Geographic | ? | 1987 | Y Art G |
| Titanic - The Band Played On | Documentary about the eight musicians on the ship who played up until the ship sank - several scenes from the 1953 movie 'Titanic' of the radio operators and with morse sound | Narr: Suggs | Missed | 2012 | ? |
| TKX Antwortet Nicht! (TKX Doesn't Reply (German Movie) | TKX is a fishing trawler in the North Sea where a crew member gets appendicitis - a fisherman is trained in code and tries to locate a doctor but the Maritime bands don't seem to bring results so he moves to the HAM bands - his message gets relayed through a jungle doctor in Africa where he relays to yet another HAM | ? | ? | 1950s | ? Martin S, VK6ANE (ex DL7NE) |
| To Have and Have Not | Bogart on a fishing trawler send the lamp signal S which is answered from shore with an M | Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Walter Brennan | Howard Hawks | 1944 | Y |
| Tombstone | - | Kurt Russell | George Pan Cosmatos | 1993 | Y |
| Too Late The Hero | an American officer on special assignment is talking to the British Commanding Officer & getting his new orders when a British soldier opens the door from the Communications Room and Morse Code can be heard in the background - lots of excellent morse throughout film | Michael Caine, Cliff Robertson | Robert Aldrich | 1970 | Y Dwight W, W6AR |
| Tora! Tora! Tora! | Navy officer goes to the communication office to tell Morse op to send the message to all commands: AIR RAID PEARL HARBORX THIS IS NOT A DRILLX AIR RAID PEARL HARBORX THIS IS NOT A DRILLX | Jason Robards Jr, Martin Balsam, James Whitmore | Richard Fleischer, Toshio Masuda | 1970 | Y Wayne R II, AB5PQ |
| Toy Story |
| animation & Tom Hanks, Tim Allen | John Lasseter | 1995 | Y PHXGraham, KE1BW |
| Train Blazers | - | Bob Steele | na | 1940 | ? |
| Train Of Life aka:Train de Vie | English subtitled movie (French, Hebrew, German) good radio morse from train near end - read NEIN NEIN NEIN | - | - | 1998 | Y |
| Trial of the Lindberg Baby, The | bug seen & heard in last scene-original announcer stating message over telephone as code heard from sounder | various | A&E Production | 1992 | Y |
| Trinity and Beyond, The Atomic Bomb Movie | docu-drama about the proliferation and testing of nuclear bombs - there is a section where you can clearly hear Morse being sent just prior to a test | - | ? | 19?? | N Dan S, AA7OA |
| Triple Cross | movie based on true story of a British safecracker who worked as a double agent during WWII - there is CW at several points when the spy communicates with HQ | Christopher Plummer, Yul Bryner | Terence Young | 1967 | N Don C, AA3EK |
| True Grit | station agent scene only, no Morse - agent seen at ops desk, resonator & Bunnell sounder clearly viewed | John Wayne, Kim Darby | Henry Hathaway | 1969 | Y |
| True Action Adventures of the 20th Century | TV Series (History Television Canada) - "Bismarck" excellent key scenes with excellent dubbed Morse as operators work key - also several short morse lamp scenes from ship-to-ship - Morse very readable | - | George Marshall | 1996 | N |
| True Action Adventures of the 20th Century | TV Series (History Television Canada) - "Warsaw Ghetto" excellent key scenes with excellent dubbed Morse as used in Ghetto to communicate with outside - Morse very readable | - | George Marshall | 1996 | N |
| Tucker's Marketplace Restaurant | Radio ad: hear Morse SOS several times - advertising a birthday treat at their restaurant on radio 680 News | - | - | Mar 1999 | N |
| Twelve O'Clock High | two short scenes with Morse sound-after first raid using code but switch to radio when Morse fails to cut through | Gregory Peck, Dean Jagger | Henry King | 1950 | Y |
| Twilight Zone (TV Series) | episode where Frank Sutton (Gomer Pyle) was Navy commander in haunted submarine resting on bottom of sea Morse heard | Rod Serling / many guest appearances | several | Oct 1959-Sep 1964 | N Bill W8LV |
