Fountain Pens in Movies and TV

[Zhivago]

To me it looks more like a Cross Townsend.

+1. At least a maybe.

[carlos.q]

In the 2008 movie "Inkheart" a screw top fountain pen plays a very important part during the film's ending:

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I couldn't get a decent picture of the pen but it looked like a Visconti:

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[grandmia]

The Dark Lord in Starwars was seen using a Parker Duofold.

https://youtu.be/NdtgRJoqomM

[FredRydr]

Figures. Evil things, those Duofolds.

Fred

[FredRydr]

In Hector and the Search for Happiness, Hector (Simon Pegg) wants to order from the duty free store on the plane, but needs to fill out paperwork. He can’t find a pen. Edward (Stellan Skarsgard) lets him borrow his, but tells him that it costs more than his car and he had better return it. At the airport, Hector fumbles with his map and realizes he still has Edward’s pen. He runs to return it and Edward decides to show Hector what his happiness is.

It is a Visconti, though I cannot tell if the model was one that costs more than Hector's car.



Fred

[Neo]

In the movie Kingsmen, the equipment room included a selection of lever filled Conway Stewarts.

[carlos.q]

In the first scenes of the 2013 film "The Great Gatsby" a doctor writes with a fountain pen in his notes. As it is supposed to be the year 1929, the barrel of the pen is an orange-red, and the section is black we could suppose it was a Parker Big Red Duofold...

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In another scene, the good doctor has a pen in his coat pocket that doesn't look at all like a Parker. Maybe a Waterman?

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[Morgaine]

Been watching on DVD, 24. I am on the 3rd season. First episode, death by fountain pen.

[Lady Onogaro]

Just saw Mr. Holmes (which I liked very much). In it he uses a fountain pen. It looked like a Waterman, but it had a ridged grip section, like a Laureat. He's using the pen in 1947. Did Waterman make the Laureat then, and did it have a ridged grip section?

[pengeezer]

Yes, what fountain pen is that?!! Does anyone have any idea?!

It looks like a Pilot Metropolitan.

If you look at the section,it has that little silver plate ring that is at the front of it. This was typical of pens
made in the late `90's,so I'd be looking at pens made around that time.



John

[pengeezer]

In the first scenes of the 2013 film "The Great Gatsby" a doctor writes with a fountain pen in his notes. As it is supposed to be the year 1929, the barrel of the pen is an orange-red, and the section is black we could suppose it was a Parker Big Red Duofold...

doctorpen1.jpg

In another scene, the good doctor has a pen in his coat pocket that doesn't look at all like a Parker. Maybe a Waterman?

doctorpen2.jpg

My guess would be a Yard-O-Led Retro.


John

[mrcharlie]

Yes, what fountain pen is that?!! Does anyone have any idea?!

It looks like a Pilot Metropolitan.

If you look at the section,it has that little silver plate ring that is at the front of it. This was typical of pens
made in the late `90's,so I'd be looking at pens made around that time.

Google image search for "montblanc meisterstuck stainless". I believe this is one, or a knockoff. It would fit the character to be using a Montblanc (or unknowingly using a knockoff).

[carlos.q]

Yes, what fountain pen is that?!! Does anyone have any idea?!

It looks like a Pilot Metropolitan.

If you look at the section,it has that little silver plate ring that is at the front of it. This was typical of pens
made in the late `90's,so I'd be looking at pens made around that time.

Google image search for "montblanc meisterstuck stainless". I believe this is one, or a knockoff. It would fit the character to be using a Montblanc (or unknowingly using a knockoff).

You don't believe it looks like a Cross Townsend?

[pengeezer]

Yes, what fountain pen is that?!! Does anyone have any idea?!

It looks like a Pilot Metropolitan.

If you look at the section,it has that little silver plate ring that is at the front of it. This was typical of pens
made in the late `90's,so I'd be looking at pens made around that time.

Google image search for "montblanc meisterstuck stainless". I believe this is one, or a knockoff. It would fit the character to be using a Montblanc (or unknowingly using a knockoff).

You don't believe it looks like a Cross Townsend?

MHO,I don't think it's a Townsend.......I don't see the "tubular" gold bands towards the middle of the pen(on the cap). FWIW,it
could be a cheap Jinhao or something like that.


John

[mrcharlie]

Google image search for "montblanc meisterstuck stainless". I believe this is one, or a knockoff. It would fit the character to be using a Montblanc (or unknowingly using a knockoff).

You don't believe it looks like a Cross Townsend?

Yes; it could easily be a "lustrous chrome" Townsend. I'm looking hard at the top of the cap area, and I couldn't find any detail in the picture that disqualified it from being the stainless meisterstuck, but it also looks like it could match the Townsend, perhaps even better. And that would also fit the character in question perfectly.

I don't know either brand's pens well. I only have a "lustrous chrome" century ballpoint (the ubiquitous cheap "fancy" pen of the 1970s and 1980s) from Cross and no MBs; I'm just comparing known online photos to this photo.

I don't see any gold accents (in response to pengeezer) on the example images of "lustrous chrome" Townsends I can find from pen stores either; I don't see that disqualifying it. The "Medalist" variety has the same color pen but with gold clip and other accents; "lustrous chrome" does not.

If we could see the clip and the trim around the cap opening (stupid thumb!) or the whole thing in higher-res and better focus it would help a lot. My DVD of this film is packed away where I can't get to it so as to scan for better images of the pen.

[carlos.q]

I don't know if this is a FP or not. I just found it curious that a sloppy propmaster would use a regular pen with a clip and stick it in a non-matching desk base. The scene is from last week's episode (Fort Defiance) of "The Strain":

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[carlos.q]

Another scene from the 1974 movie "Chinatown". A clerk in a government office uses a fountain pen AND has a desk set.

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[Kaputnik]

In 1960's School for Scoundrels, amiable perpetual loser Henry Palfrey (Ian Carmichael) enrolls in a school of "lifemanship" taught by Mr. Potter (Alastair Sim). One of the first lessons comes when Palfrey hands Mr. Potter the check for the enrollment fee, signing with what looks to me like a Parker 51. Potter asks to see the pen, and then puts it in his own pocket. When Palfrey hesitantly asks for it back, Potter points out to him that he has been made to feel guilty for asking for his own property.

Could be wrong about the model, but it was evidently a slip cap and looks like a hooded nib.

[carlos.q]

Just saw the other day the 2013 movie "The Book Thief". Wonderful movie! During the very last scene, there is a panned shot of Liesel's desk where I can identify a MB146 a Parker 75 and another pen.

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[carlos.q]

In this week's episode of "The Strain", in a scene set in 1931 Germany, a woman signs a contract to buy a radio with a FP. To the left is radio salesman "Thomas Eichorst" who will soon become a Nazi SS officer and later a very creepy vampire.

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