Half-Track USMC 26343745 Has WHAT?

[TomZ2]

Sitting in my big high-backed leather chair, in my inner sanctum of my secret volcano lair …
I’m researching the M2 half-track “USMC 26343745” seen in the 1953 movie “War of the Worlds” (WOTW).



SOMETHING is on the jerry can carrier/bracket/holder/mount. Ideas?

The softness of the 3-strip Technicolor® process simply loses too much information.
I used a LOT of reverse processing — a day-for-night filter, also known as nuit américaine
(“American night”) — on the movie images, e.g., M4A1(76)W HVSS “Sherman” tank:



“It’s an AHKSHUN movie.” — Gov. Arnold Schwartzenegger

[Robin]

It's an EE-8 field telephone, with the top flap open.

[Chuck Lutz]

"Day For Night"

A film by French Director Francois Truffaut....