This is not a review so much as a spotting....
I happened to be flipping through the channels this past weekend when I saw ran into the movie, "Cast A Giant Shadow". It is a movie about the formation of Israel in 1948 starring Kirk Douglas and Angie Dickinson with some cameos by John Wayne and Frank Sinatra.
In any event, in the first few minutes of the movie, Kirk and another character are followed into a Macy's department store. While in the store they pass by a train exhibit. In that exhibit are many older U.S prototype tinplate, metal and plastic Fleischmann trains running on a layout.
I was kind of surprised.
Ironically as the film "starts" in 1947, those trains are in fact historically inaccurate as Fleischmann did not start its HO line until 1952 and many of the models were not even released until subsequent years. The film was made in 1966 which would in fact explain those models in a department store in the United States. Fleischmann was actually very successful in many department stores and malls in the 1960s and 1970s.
Update: I actually found a video of this scene on the internet. Layout appears about minute 3:00 point.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid ... %27s&hl=en
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