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Mystery Alphaville Display
🕑 Added 2025-01-13 00:03:04 +0000 UTCI've been trying to find out what the matrix numerical display is in the 1965 Jean-Luc Godard film Alphaville. Leave suggestions in the comments - and let's try to get one of these in the Lab!
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Philip Stephens
I don't think the lights are diagonally positioned, I think it's a matrix of light bulbs shot from an angle.
Zygmunt Dean
Looks rather like a railway "theatre" style route indicator, used on UK railways since the 1920s: https://www.railsigns.uk/sect6page2.html See figure 6.25 at the bottom of the page.
BobC
My mind keeps going to the band Alphaville. FMI: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1TcDHrkQYg
TEB
The film was partially shot in the Maison de la Radio et de la Musique which had been completed in 1963 which looked futuristic to Goddard (like the lengthy Tokyo scenes in Tarkovsky’s Solaris, which looked Fururistic to him but look old fashioned today). I wonder if the display was equipment from the Maison de la Radio. That mechanical voice box for the computer is creepy indeed.
