Unusual antenna mount

[Mogman]

Every couple decades I re-watch the movie Midway.
This time I saw a ton of obvious errors, jeeps without windshield wipers, stuff like that.
But this antenna and mount is hilarious!

 

[CallMeColt]

Funny, once you know, how the stuff starts popping out. Maybe it was for putting the Jerry can handles through?

 

[G744]

Antenna Specialists 108" whip to the rescue!

 

[Mogman]

Funny, once you know, how the stuff starts popping out. Maybe it was for putting the Jerry can handles through?

I don't mean to knock it, it was a great movie but now all I see are multiple, multiple errors,
They did use as much "real" footage as they could but there are Japanese dive bombers coming in for an attack with no bombs etc.
The footage of the B25s approaching Japan to bomb showed there were already fires burning obviously the area where they got the footage had damage from earlier raids. Of course I don't think any of the B25s were ever recovered so even if they had cameras there would have been no footage.
Hal Holbrook's "southern" accent was way over the top, but the dang movie had just about everyone but Clint Eastwod in it, even ol Ponch from Chips

 

[BG6]

"Midway" production went WAAAAYYYYY overbudget and time, thanks partly to the extra costs of Sensurround audio. This was also in the period after the tax man hit MGM with a huge bill for their stock of such things as military vehicles, so they were sold off -- thus no longer available for lease, but the wranglers hadn't gotten their act together, so the company was tracking down individual owners. The guy who owned this probably bought it from MGM, and they were slathering WATERCOLOR paint on them. No doubt he didn't want to put holes for the antenna mount on it. If this is the one I think it is, it made a few other appearances in film and TV production, in its true OD paint.