For the last week or so, HBO Family, (at least in the United States) has been playing in significant rotation, a 2001 movie entitled, "Race to Space".  It has numerous shots of several slide rules in everyday use.

The movie is very loosely modeled on the pre Mercury program of launching a chimpanzee into a sub orbital space flight.  It also has a fictional character of a former German space scientist, called, "Dr. Wilhelm von Huber" who leads a team of Volkswagen driving former engineers from Germany as well.

Gee...I wonder who that might have been in real life.

Whoever did the set design for this movie should have won an award.  To look at the late 50's technology, and the noticeable lack of the electronics we take for granted in everyday use is a stunning reminder of my youth...and the number of pencils worn out  in trying to keep track of the decimal place!