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In the documentary The Secret of Drawing, a surgeon dips forceps in the blood of a patient on the operating table to sketch a procedure.
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The full 'dip pen' sequence (not for the squeamish) can be seen on Vimeo here.)
The surgeon, Francis Wells (left), on the shading qualities of blood:
"It is actually a wonderful medium to draw in because in cardiac surgery you dilute the blood and you can have blood that’s pure blood or blood that is slightly diluted. And as one knows with people like Turner and so forth, he used different strengths of media, you can actually use different strengths of blood, and it really does produce some wonderful pictures."
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I would think the "ink" would coagulate too quickly, and the writer would need to constantly dip into someone.
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I would think the "ink" would coagulate too quickly, and the writer would need to constantly dip into someone.
I guess that's why the need for a dip pen. Otherwise we would get questions like: "Will O negative blood clog my MB149?"
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I would think the "ink" would coagulate too quickly, and the writer would need to constantly dip into someone.
He mentions that the blood is diluted during surgery. But if you watch the video he does dip quite frequently.
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I would think the "ink" would coagulate too quickly, and the writer would need to constantly dip into someone.
I guess that's why the need for a dip pen. Otherwise we would get questions like: "
Will O negative blood clog my MB149?"
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Maybe surgeons add warfarin to their blood-filled 149s. :)
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Title of the movie: What Dreams May Come (1998)
Story in brief: "Chris Nielsen (Robin Williams) dies in car crash one night, and then goes to Heaven. Later, his widow Annie (Annabella Sciorra) commits suicide, unable to overcome her loss. Chris descends into Hell to save her." imdb.com
When Chris causes the pen to write "I still exist," Annie uses a nice fountain pen.
Could somebody identify the fp, please?
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Could be a Hero 329.
Thank you. :)
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In episode 4 of the documentary The Secret of Drawing (starting around 12:57), architect and stage set designer Mark Fisher sketches with what looks like a Pelikan M800.
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https://youtu.be/x4X-jWKzaaQ?t=777
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During a 1959 episode of "Twilight Zone" titled "Judgement Night" actor Nehemiah Persoff plays the merciless U-boat captain who chides his second in command, played by James Franciscus, who believes they are damned for sinking a civilian ship without warning. On the captain's desk is a Morriset desk set, which is not appropriate as a 1942 U-boat fixture, but was frequently used by the Twilight Zone prop department.
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At the beginning of the 1979 film "Cuba" starring Sean Connery, there is a scene in which an airplane is arriving to the island in late 1958 and one of the passengers feels something odd inside his suit...
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... only to find that one of his pens has leaked ink:
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This is the disc for Season 1 Disc 1 of the TV series "Castle."
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I don't know the plot. Is that supposed to be dripping blood? And what's embossed on that nib?
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I don't know the plot. Is that supposed to be dripping blood? And what's embossed on that nib?
It was a show about a mystery/crime writer (hence nib with blood) who helps the police solve unusual murders. There may have been more to it than that. I only saw a couple of episodes.
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I don't know the plot. Is that supposed to be dripping blood? And what's embossed on that nib?
It was a show about a mystery/crime writer (hence nib with blood) who helps the police solve unusual murders. There may have been more to it than that. I only saw a couple of episodes.
SPOILER ALERT! In the end the writer and the police woman fall in love... :hug:
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I don't know the plot. Is that supposed to be dripping blood? And what's embossed on that nib?
It was a show about a mystery/crime writer (hence nib with blood) who helps the police solve unusual murders. There may have been more to it than that. I only saw a couple of episodes.
SPOILER ALERT! In the end the writer and the police woman fall in love... :hug:
The police woman is kinda purty...
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Warning, the below might contain some very mild spoilers, although nothing serious.
Good Omens is an Amazon Prime miniseries based on the 1992 book of that name by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman. I watched it at a two episode a night clip for three nights, which is about as close as I get to binging. I found it to be pretty good; if it didn't totally do justice to the book, it made a decent effort.
It's a comedy concerning the coming of the Antichrist and the Apocalypse. The four horsemen, two of them actually women, are summoned for their ride with the delivery of symbolic objects by an express delivery service. Pestilence, discouraged by advances in medicine (explained in the book but not the series) has retired and been replaced by "Pollution", male in the book, female here. Here she signs for the delivery of the item summoning her to ride out, using a fountain pen which leaks badly.
Overanalyzing this, in the book, the pen begins to leak when Pollution touches it, leaving a smeary and illegible signature, but is not a fountain pen. In the series, perhaps they make it a fountain pen because they think they tend to leak. It's the pen that the deliveryman handed her, and takes back, but a little later he writes a quick note in ballpoint.
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"The Godfather" (1972): during a meeting of crime chiefs, Don Corleone (Marlon Brando) wields what appears to be a Waterman BCHR pen:
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...Here she signs for the delivery of the item summoning her to ride out, using a fountain pen which leaks badly....
MB 144? Does Beelzebub frequent the boutique or buy used?
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Okay, it's just a dip pen, but I didn't think MOP holders with gold nibs were yet available in 1832. I must dig into some of Marshall's books on early writing instruments to find out.
Here is Anne Lister's tenant signing the marriage register in the church vestry in the last minutes of Season 1, Episode 8 of Gentleman Jack. (These streaming services block screen shots, so I use my smartphone camera to photograph the screen!)
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