WYSIWYG in "Rescue Dawn"

[Fred Shapiro]

On Sun, 29 Jul 2007, Bapopik at AOL.COM wrote:

> "What you see is what you get!" says one of the characters in the movie.
> It's an anachronism.

Is it?  According to the Yale Book of Quotations, "what you see is what
you get" appeared in a Chicago Tribune ad for a home movie cameria, May 2,
1936.

Fred Shapiro


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