We watched this movie about watergate from the late 70’s in history last year (which was all shot in the actual locations). At the time, the Washington Post building had Edwards coded pulls and 8-10 inch single stroke adaptabells.
The devil wears prada:
Wheelock RSS strobe can be seen in a ‘Paris’ hotel room. Yet again, cheap hollywood!
I’ve been to paris, they follow the european alarm system. (call points ect…)
The Office:
http://www.hulu.com/watch/55745/the-office-stress-relief
Dwight pulls an Edwards 270 Pull around 3:30, and some type of bell goes off.
LOL! Is that the one that was on last night after the super bowl?
That episode was HILARIOUS
Yes 
A Coca-Cola SuperBowl commercial featured a Wheelock alarm with either a WM strobe or a WHT strobe.
http://www.hulu.com/superbowl/55628/super-bowl-xliii-ads-coke-zero-mean-troy
My mom has American Idol on right now. A few minutes ago, they were in the hotel in Holywood. There were Wheelock ETs and the strobes were flashing (though they never actually mentioned the alarms going off).
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Notice how that was already pulled. And using the force, he magically made it go off.
Notice how the strobes flashed real fast, and the strobes were LOUD!
Does anyone watch this show, btw?
Family Ties ep with an SA120 that makes a burglar alarm-like sound. Also shows the SA120’s box and manual.
On the 2007 CSI “You Kill Me”, one of the hypothetical murder situations involves one CSI triggering a booby-trapped bomb disguised as a kilo bag of coke under a stack of real ones. This causes a 10" bell (actually sounds like a sprinkler bell) and a Commander-esque March Time horn, along with strobes in March Time. Then another strobe, more consistent with the 60fpm strobe we’re accustomed to is also seen (ambiance). Also a voice comes over the PA instructing everyone to evacuate the premises.
No clip or alarm sightings, but a somewhat alarm joke on Letterman. The Top 10 list for tonight was “Top 10 Signs Your Stockbroker Is Losing It”. Number three was “When the opening bell rings, he shouts ‘FIRE!’”. For those of you who have never heard the bell at the NYSE, here’s a clip of it:
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In Stargate Atlantis, in SGC (StarGate Command, located at Cheyenne Mountain) there are 8 or 10" bells and Edwards 270 pulls.
Here’s an image from S1E1: Rising (Enhanced)
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Also I noticed in some parts of the base they seem to get a little pull-happy. For example: In S1E9 “Home” there are 2 pulls within approx. 50 feet of each other!
Note that the SGC also appears in SG1.
was watching an episode of bizarre foods with Andrew Zimmern on Travel Channel which ended about 12 minutes ago. He was in Tiawan sampling the “local fare” at a supermarket, and something cought my eye in the background but it was only shown very briefly so I was unable to really tell what exactly it was. Than they showed a shot of him eatting the “delight” and I manage to get a better look at it, and sure enough, there was a wall mount classic spectra in the background.
I just saw tonight’s Time Warp (on Discovery, its a show where they use high-speed cameras to video everyday things) and they were playing around with a homemade machine called the Flamschmeisser that makes sparks and flame at the same time using fire and pyrophoric ignition (which means that a metal will ignite spontaneously when released into the air, think the sparks a flint wheel in a lighter makes), and the FA went off!!! It was a Siemens system with the 900hz C3 and female voice saying
then the narrator cuts in. The strobes are perfectly synchronized. From what I’ve seen the speakers are S-HP-MCS units. (might not be multi-candela)
Might have been something similar but the “spectralert” an American product and I have seen dozens of catalog options never one with lettering that would comply with their standards.
But who knows …
I just saw the commercial for the Paul Blart - Mall Cop DVD/Blu-Ray movie and when he slams into a pair of glass doors of a store, a horizontal-strobed 4903 and T-Bar behind a glass cover can be seen.
Yes, I just recently shot that movie, and it looks like the mall(s) that they shot it had simplex systems. I saw verticle and horizontal-strobbed speaker/strobes as well as Life Alarm speakers on those strobe or light plate things. There were also simplex single-action t-bars behind Stopper 2s. Also, it appears that they make announcements over the fire alarms. This happens twice in the movie; on time towards the beginning, and one time towards that late-end.
That movie was shot at the Burlington Mall which isn’t that far from where I live, and yes, almost the whole mall has a Simplex system.