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"Red-Headed Woman" is a 1932 Pre-Code film starring Jean Harlow as the assertive and sexually promiscuous Lillian "Red" Andrews who is determined to manipulate and seduce her way up the social ladder. In this scene, one of the characters uses a screw top vest pen to write out a check for "Red".
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Looks like a short lever above his thumb, and a Conklin-shaped clip if I use my imagination (which I use constantly).
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The Resistant Banker, depicting Amsterdam in 1942. Alas, the focus of the scene isn't sharp.
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"A-Bombs over Nevada" is a 2016 documentary about atomic weapons testing during the 1950's and 60's. Here is a scene where President Kennedy signs the ban on testing using Esterbrook pens. Oddly enough the pens are kept nib up:
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At an hour and a minute into Jason Bourne, the character Malcolm Smith writes in London with a silver-capped pen whose cap looks like it has a white star.
The pen isn't very sharp in the sequence, but it still jumped out at me.
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Last night I saw a very interesting PBS documentary called "The Eugenics Crusade: American Experience" that had many scenes with dip pens. In this scene two soldiers use fountain pens to fill out an exam prepared by the very racist promoters of the so-called "eugenics science" allegedly designed to detect "feebleminded" people.
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The soldier on the right is using a flat top pen with an accommodation clip. The one on the left is surely a time traveling FPGeek that seems to be using a Lamy 2000. :wink:
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pretty much any photo I have seen with JFK has always been an Estie.
Nib up bc he has to dip them...............no bladder:blink:
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In last week's episode of "Hawaii 5-0", the main character (Steve McGarret) looks through a 1941 cold case file and finds a Parker pen clipped to one of the folders:
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Upon closer inspection the pen is a period correct Parker Vacumatic with the initials "SM" that, according to the story line, belonged to McGarret's grandfather who had his same name.
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Great work by the "Hawaii 5-0" prop team!
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During the TV mini-series "The Little Drummer Girl", the main character Charmian "Charlie" Ross picks up a pen to forge a letter:
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Upon closer inspection it turns out to be a modern Conklin Duragraph, which is not period appropriate as events supposedly occur in 1979:
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No picture this time as my Hulu connection was misbehaving. :(
Last night I watched the Norwegian film "The 12th Man" that deals with events during World War II in 1943. Everything seemed correct until a Nazi SS officer used a modern Lamy Safari to write with. Absolutely inexcusable!!! :angry:
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This is from a recent Ulta Beauty Xmas TV ad:
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The nib says Parker but I don't really know what model.
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Hollywood seems to believe that a fountain pen is a fountain pen, and a six-shooter is a six-shooter (lots of period-incorrect firearms in Westerns). I've seen threads similar to this on gun forums, and it makes me wonder about analogous ones on, say, footwear-enthusiast websites. I can just imagine a post from such a forum: "The story is set in 1905, but those boots were obviously stitched by a self-reciprocating Waterman-Wurlitzer model 45ACP, which wasn't produced until 1922."
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The nib says Parker but I don't really know what model.
Think it could be an IM.
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Hollywood seems to believe that a fountain pen is a fountain pen, and a six-shooter is a six-shooter (lots of period-incorrect firearms in Westerns). I've seen threads similar to this on gun forums, and it makes me wonder about analogous ones on, say, footwear-enthusiast websites. I can just imagine a post from such a forum: "The story is set in 1905, but those boots were obviously stitched by a self-reciprocating Waterman-Wurlitzer model 45ACP, which wasn't produced until 1922."
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Mind you, I laugh but I've participated in lampooning many an example of foolish woodworking practice as depicted on television. i.e. 99% of it. The thing is, if the stuff we know about is wrong, how can we believe any of the rest...?
As to sightings, flicking through the channels I briefly landed on Googlebox as the participants were commenting on Mrs Wilson, wherein she was being given an overlay FP. They were not impressed with it as a gift, whereas I thought it might have been an example of Henry Simpole's work and thus was much more so. Someone in the UK with a more athletic download speed than mine might be able to locate it via iPlayer, but owing to the secondhand nature of the sighting, I couldn't tell you were.
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In a recent TV documentary about the life of Mao Zedong (Mao Tse-Tung for those who remember) there is a scene of a group of Chinese students and intellectuals writing down some notes:
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Most are writing with dip pens (and one of them with an ink bottle on hand) but in the foreground the writer appears to be using a Conway Stewart.
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In All the Money in the World, Michelle Williams as Abigail Harris Getty has a meeting with J. P. Getty and his lawyers, one of whom has a Montblanc 149.
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Later, she wields what looks like a Montegrappa. (Reminiscence?)
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Later still, in another meeting, J. P. Getty's lawyer hands her the same pen and we get a close-up.
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In Murdoch Mysteries S07E15 "The Spy Who Came Up to the Cold" Constable Crabtree has acquired a "Regus Skyline #7" fountain pen and it plays a prominent role in the development of the story. Like a lot in this series the pen is a little anachronistic and does appear to be little more modern than the 1901 in which the story is set. I suspect that some writer looked at a Waterman nib when they thought up that name.
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Salma Hayek plays the character Frida Kahlo and uses a red Esterbrook in a scene from the 2002 film "Frida":
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In the same film, Geoffrey Rush plays Leon Trotsky and uses a torpedo shaped FP:
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Has anyone done Cloud Atlas here, yet? Wouldn't be surprised, although there aren't really a lot of pen scenes. I just watched it, and plan to watch it again some time.
In a story spanning several centuries, we see letters being written with a dip pen on a ship in the middle of the 19th century, and with a fountain pen in England some time in the 1930s. I can't discern enough details to have an opinion on the authenticity of the pens for the periods, which is probably just as well. But it doesn't really matter to me.
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In part 4 of Patrick Melrose, set in 2003, a Parker of some kind (88? Rialto?) is used to sign a will.
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During a recent episode (Mac+Fallout+Jack) of the new MacGyver series the folks at the Phoenix Foundation come up with a combination scanner, degausser and USB port hidden inside a fountain pen:
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However, for the contraption to work they have to spread the tines a lot.... (ouch!)
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