Mini CRT displays in Brazil

[mattropolis]

Just got done watching Brazil. Forgot how great many of the props were in that movie!

I loved the tiny little 4" crt displays that they used. My engineer mind freaks out seeing the high voltage fly-backs and plugs open with actors hands so close!

Does anyone who still makes those or know where they might be found/bought scavanged?

 

[robstyle]

get a screen cap and post a picture. That will help garner interest.

 

[mattropolis]

Good point about the screen shots. Here are two I found online that show the little displays. I can see if I can borrow the DVD back to get better ones if needed...

Front view:

Side/back view:

 

[robstyle]

Funny thing is you can replicate those using modern mini LCD's with the backing and other attaching hardware/frame as dressing. That way you could pipe in the video via a computer or MP3 player.

 

[packradt]

I cannot tell you about this exact crt, but know that broadcast television and closed circuit monitors, three abreast in nineteen inch rack setups, are likely donors, as are studio viewfinders from cameras in the eighties and nineties. All this stuff is just so much scrap nowadays and will not be collectible for another twenty years. We are about to surplus a three monitor setup at work that would give good working donor monitors for a tribute, for instance. And yes, mattropolis, enough HV on the aquadag to get your attention or to even free up your props at the estate sale the widow's holding.

 

[JoeRalat]

You could use a screen from an old portable tv.
Vintage Bentley 5'' & 4" Black White Portable TV's Models 100-C & 4500
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Bentley-5-4-Black-White-Portable-TVs-Models-100-C-4500-/112016737172?hash=item1a14b7c394:g:lQwAAOSwMHdXRPrT

 

[Quint89]

Some older baby monitors used small CRTs
Something like:-
http://www.amazon.com/Summer-Infant-Night-Digital-Monitor/dp/B00A0ID6YO
you could probably find them used pretty cheap