I was too slow to stop the action, but watch The Railwayman with Colin Firth, Nicole Kidman and Stellan Skarsgård for glimpses of several fountain pens being used in wartime London.
It has long been rumored that the Nazis were experimenting with time travel. There is an image that might prove this to be right. Here is a scene from a multi-part TV documentary (chapter:"Hitler: The Artist") where the dictator ponders whether or not to have his old friend Ernst Rohm shot. As you can see, he is using a very modern Parker Vector to ink his choice:
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Then again, it could be that the prop department made a mistake. Naaahhh... it must be time travel.
Judi Dench with a Parker Sonnet in the movie Iris. In an early scene, her character — the writer Iris Murdoch — struggles to complete her final book, which was published in 1995, a year after the Sonnet came out. So no anachronisms here!
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In a flashback to the 1950s, her younger self (Kate Winslet) has a Parker 51.
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In The Souvenir, set in early 1980s London, a character who is not all he appears to be signs a cheque with a Jinhao X450.
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Later, the female protagonist signs a cheque with an unidentified silver pen and an unconventional grip.
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Later still, another glimpse of the Jinhao during a watercolour session.
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The Jinhao X450 returns in The Souvenir Part II, along with the protagonist’s unconventional grip.
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By the end of the movie the protagonist has changed her life and her pen, though not her writing style.
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Gary Oldman tests the stiffness of a Lamy Logo nib in The Hitman’s Bodyguard.
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Possibly a black Lamy Safari near the beginning of Drive My Car.
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Certainly a couple of dip pens near the end.
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Jean-Luc Picard’s fountain pen in the teaser for season 3 of Picard.
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An unidentified fountain pen in Calvary,
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and some unexpected product placement.
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A couple of period-appropriate (late 1920s) fountain pens in Downton Abbey: a new era, too distant to identify.
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What an excellent thread with terrific pictures!!!
I was just rewatching this episode and found another pen, which I cannot identify:
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In this episode, our fearless time travelers are desperately trying to keep Operation Mincemeat on track. For this, they must write various love letters between The Man Who Never Was and his fictional girlfriend. In the end, the nazis are deceived and history is preserved, but in a very paradoxical manner.
In The Duke (2020), set in early 1960s England, Jim Broadbent’s character (the magnificently named Kempton Bunton — a real person) provides a red/burgundy slip-cap lever-filler for signatories to a petition.
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Did the production designer choose the pen to match the woman’s gloves?
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Later, a very similar pen appears in the hands of the judge at his trial.
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Meanwhile, the defence counsel's pen looks like a Parker 51
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but it's another lever-filler.
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The fifth episode of Stranger Things season 4, set in 1986, features a fountain pen with a distinctive sloping end to the barrel and a Waterman-like cutout in the clip.
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Later in the episode, the same pen won’t write (understandably) and the barrel reveals important information.
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