I saw that! To me it also feels like a cross between Simplex and RSG’s T-bar pulls. The alarm signals at the school also felt like an unusual combination of the Amseco Select-a-Horn/strobe, System Sensor SpectrAlert Classic and Simplex TrueAlert. (Of course back in 2002, horn/strobe fire alarm systems were kind of rare in Canadian schools, as many still had bells at the time. But here in the USA, it was the other way around…)
Rewatching Stranger Things on Netflix to get ready for the newly released season 4. My now-astute fire alarm senses noticed this BG-12 in a scene from S2E4. Mind you, the show is set in the 70s/80s…
Guess they just didn’t take small details like that into account, though I know Zak Wolf once told me that one time while a film company was filming in downtown Brockton, Massachusetts for a movie set in the 1960s, they removed a Wheelock AS from the outside of a building due to being anachronistic, so I guess that production company took such details into account!
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It’s not just fire alarms
https://www.reddit.com/r/HVAC/comments/vg91so/
They have a Wheelock 7002T in the movie “I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus” with Connie Selleca, Corbin Bernsen and Dylan/Cole Sprouse. Showed briefly in the school they attend in the film.
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Looks like a Honeywell-rebranded 7002T going by the sticker on the bottom. Does it go off? (which would explain why it’s front-&-center in that shot)
I also see that that screenshot appears to be from a Youtube video, mind linking it?
Sure
There is a charge for the movie
No, it does not go off-in the scene there’s a problem in the system
This one is a clip, not the entire movie; this one is free of charge
Oh, had no idea you still had to purchase it. Thanks anyway.
I still don’t know why the camera would focus on it then. A problem with the system?
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Thanks!
Huh, very unusual: a Honeywell-rebranded 7002T with a 2099/4099-series Simplex t-bar (unless the t-bar is part of a Simplex system that replaced the previous system that the 7002T was part of).
Seems just like with most movies that they removed the switch which would lock the handle in place once activated, allowing the characters to repeatedly move it up & down.
Sorry @TheCarson116 it’s confusing
The full movie is for purchase
Clip is just up there for people
The camera focuses on it a few seconds later after Character “Justin Carver” pulls it, it wont sound because of a problem in the system; my guess is they deactivated the alarms on location when shooting, this was Liberty Elementary School in Murray, Utah. Some scenes were also shot in Denver. Don’t know the technical aspects of the film.
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Yeah, I get it now.
Very strange why it wouldn’t sound, at least in-universe, unless as you said there was some kind of problem with the system (broken wire between pull station & panel, inoperative, misprogrammed, or malfunctioning zone, etc.).
Actually @TheCarson116 it was a problem in the system for the movie and I think that one was not connected up for filming purposes.
I did say in-universe, though it would make sense not to wire the devices if they wouldn’t be required to function.
In the popular move “Gremlins”, there is an Edwards pull station. It is pulled and activates some unknown EVAC system.
Yes, someone already covered that movie quite a few years back.
I will see if I can follow up to/edit this post with photos of it, but I was recently watching Season 3 Episode 3 of Young Sheldon when I noticed that as he arrived at Dr. Linkletter’s class, the Siemens or Cerberus Pyrotronics pull station in the background (HMS-S?) was open as if it was being reset. When the camera panned back to that position a few seconds later, the pull station was closed in its normal position. Strange!
They tend to use a voice evacuation system like these ones:
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Here’s an Xfinity commercial I just heard where someone pulls an RSG dual-action T-bar and sets off SpectrAlert Advances…
I was watching an episode of Knight Rider that had a unknown Chevron pull station in a parking garage scene.
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