{"id":10857,"date":"2019-10-22T10:00:06","date_gmt":"2019-10-22T15:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=10857"},"modified":"2019-10-17T00:36:54","modified_gmt":"2019-10-17T05:36:54","slug":"blues-to-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2019\/10\/blues-to-the-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Blues to the Future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t be the first person to notice this, but a glance through Internet searches doesn&#8217;t bring up any immediate hits.<\/p>\n<p>Watch part of this clip from <em>The Blues Brothers<\/em>, starting at about 1:33. The relevant part is pretty short.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xggMwkGnbhw\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Now watch this clip from <em>Back to the Future<\/em>, 38 seconds in, starting after Doc says &#8220;When this baby hits 88 miles per hour&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PjX_hbgYZto\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not the <em>same<\/em> prop, but it looks very much like the same real-world item, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.deloreantimemachines.com\/docs_futaba_radio.html\">a Futaba radio control<\/a>, rejiggered into two movie devices. It wouldn&#8217;t be hard to see that the one in <em>BB<\/em> is an older version, with fewer bells and whistles, than the one we get a closeup of in <em>BTTF<\/em> (which itself is souped up). The handle angle is different, the stuff in the center is certainly different, but the flat-head toggles and the flip-switch toggles are in the same places on the top, along with the pair of omnidirectional controls.<\/p>\n<p>Two remote controls used to very different ends by Jake Blues&#8217; jilted bride and &#8220;Doc&#8221; Emmett Brown&#8230;and Universal Studios&#8217; props department.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t be the first person to notice this, but a glance through Internet searches doesn&#8217;t bring up any immediate hits. Watch part of this clip from The Blues Brothers, starting at about 1:33. The relevant part is pretty short. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2019\/10\/blues-to-the-future\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10857"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10860,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10857\/revisions\/10860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}