bigbisont wrote:
So in all seriousness, what are the odds we can buckle down and find this dang thing? Or has it already been positively ID'd and I missed it?
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It is crazy unique with that design.
There has been some news in facebook from Doug McCarthy as relayed to him by Mark (who actually built, among other things, the smartgunner headset units!)
According to Mark, some of the highlights include:
-Eye piece was made by him, molded and vac-formed. NOT a 'found item', so we can all stop looking for vintage video camera eye-pieces.
-Two eye-pieces for each actor. One with the hole to keep normal vision and one with a painted-on screen.
-The coiled wire came from "stuff they had laying around in Terry Reid's workshop" at Pinewood.
-The mysterious end "T" piece connector of the cable...ALSO scratch built. NOT a 'found item'.
He recalls they were constructed of "EMA Parts" (supply plastic shapes and domes that are used in film model making). Seems we will never find one...unless one of you loonies wants to try and figure out what specific EMA parts were used!?...
Harry also posted this photo in that discussion thread which seems to display the raw plastic nature of the scratch-built device.
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So barring a crazy EMA hunt the search for these can end. They aren't out there. (sad face)
Still fun stuff and great to know, tho!