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Newly Enlightened
So I'm watching Apollo 13 on cable, and notice something for the first time:
As they're dealing with the catastrophe and shutting down the command module, as they move to the LEM, there are 2 or 3 brief scenes where a silver, anodized, aluminum-looking, single-piece-battery-compartment, approx. 2-AA sized flashlight is shown swimming about the cabin. The bezel has 2 thin knurled bands (keep in mind I couldn't rewind) around it, and the end of the bezel opposite the lens is rounded. The barrel seemed smooth. The light is on.....throwing a suspiciously blue beam (LED?). My questions are as follows:
1) Could this be an historically accurate light? Regardless, does anyone know what NASA used in 1970?
2) If not, is it an identifiable modern flashlight that someone mistakenly chucked into the movie for effect?
Cheers & Good Luck (because I sure as heck don't know!),
/TCP
As they're dealing with the catastrophe and shutting down the command module, as they move to the LEM, there are 2 or 3 brief scenes where a silver, anodized, aluminum-looking, single-piece-battery-compartment, approx. 2-AA sized flashlight is shown swimming about the cabin. The bezel has 2 thin knurled bands (keep in mind I couldn't rewind) around it, and the end of the bezel opposite the lens is rounded. The barrel seemed smooth. The light is on.....throwing a suspiciously blue beam (LED?). My questions are as follows:
1) Could this be an historically accurate light? Regardless, does anyone know what NASA used in 1970?
2) If not, is it an identifiable modern flashlight that someone mistakenly chucked into the movie for effect?
Cheers & Good Luck (because I sure as heck don't know!),
/TCP