Fountain Pens in Movies and TV

[Chip]

Examples of the Waterman 52 pen:

[carlos.q]

What is the technique for capturing screen shots of streamed movies? Screen shots are blocked when I try, so I end up taking a photo of the screen.

I use the old fashioned way: I pause the scene on TV, wait a couple of seconds so the progress bar disappears and then I take a picture with my iPhone. Sometimes, if I'm not directly in front of the TV the dialog box will appear tilted (see the pictures in post #646 above). After that I'll crop the image to a manageable size using Preview.

[catbert]

Ryan O'Neal as Moses Pray signing a hotel register with a dip pen in Paper Moon.

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[FredRydr]

...Paper Moon

A favorite! I can just see the register being taken around the studio offices asking everyone to make an entry with a variety of pens.

And there's Burton Giliam as Floyd, the desk clerk, with that face that reminds me of Moe in the Pep Boys logo.



From IMBd bio: Had been a firefighter for 14 years with the Dallas (TX) fire Department when he read in a local newspaper that a Hollywood film company will holding auditions for extras to be in a film starring Ryan O'Neal that was to shoot in the area. He went to the audition jut hoping to make a few extra bucks and, as he put it, "maybe meet some movie stars". The film was Paper Moon (1973) and Gilliam impressed the producers so much that instead of an "extra" part, he was given a featured role as Floyd the Desk Clerk. After finishing the film, he returned to his job in Dallas. Not long afterwards he was contacted by Mel Brooks, who had seen his performance in "Paper Moon" and wanted him for a role in a western comedy he was getting ready to make. The film was Blazing Saddles (1974) and Gilliam got the role he is best remembered for--that of Slim Pickens' dimwitted henchman Lyle.

[Yazeh]

You might want to know the director Peter Bogdanovich, passed away on January 6.....

[FredRydr]

In Occupied, the props people didn't even bother to remove the temporary nib size sticker! (4+ minutes into Episode 1)

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[FredRydr]

Stephens' Ink for ALL Fountain Pens

Mrs. Pumphrey (played by Patricia Hodge) with Tricki Woo in the recent remake of All Creatures Great and Small.

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If it's not a genuine sign, it's a good reproduction.

[FredRydr]

Oops! A Nazi Wehrmacht Colonel's modern cigar-shaped Montblanc Meisterstuck 14x being used by him to sign a construction contract in 1940 or '41 Denmark, before that pen design appeared post-war in 1949. Seaside Hotel a/k/a Badehotellet, Season 8, Episode 5. Well, the Danish series is a comedy despite the tragic subject-matter.

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[catbert]

Dip pen correspondence in season 3 of Dickinson.

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[catbert]

Parallel drafting of wills with dip pens in Dickinson season 3.

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While we see Hailee Steinfeld write the first line, her grip seems a little different in close-up. Perhaps a hand-double/calligrapher?

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The other actor avoids the issue entirely.

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[catbert]

In episode 1 of Around the World in 80 Days (2021), set in 1872, the editor of the Daily Telegraph and his journalist daughter (her byline is 'Fix') share a fountain pen.

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[Scrawler]

In episode 1 of Around the World in 80 Days (2021), set in 1872, the editor of the Daily Telegraph and his journalist daughter (her byline is 'Fix') share a fountain pen.

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Pen is about 60 years later than the depiction in the movie.

[catbert]

In episode 1 of Around the World in 80 Days (2021), set in 1872, the editor of the Daily Telegraph and his journalist daughter (her byline is 'Fix') share a fountain pen.

<snip>

Pen is about 60 years later than the depiction in the movie.

Given the setting, they could have gone with a dip pen. Looks like there may be an inkwell already there. I was more distracted by the way the pen starts out already uncapped and posted, gets waved around, put down again without capping, and still writes without hesitation.

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[Blue Note]

Real life and the movies often have very little in common.

[FredRydr]

In episode 1 of Around the World in 80 Days (2021), set in 1872, the editor of the Daily Telegraph and his journalist daughter (her byline is 'Fix') share a fountain pen.

It gets worse in Episode 5 where in 1872, a Hong Kong money order is awaiting signature with...this?! Someone in the props department was awfully lazy.

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[catbert]

A glimpse of the Queen’s Parker 51 in this BBC report?

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[catbert]

Another look at that anachronistic Sheaffer in episode 5 of Around the World in 80 Days.

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Later in the episode, judging by hand movements and writing angle, a dip pen being used to write Chinese characters.

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[catbert]

Prompted by this sad coincidence, the Parker atomic pen from 2001: A Space Odyssey, arguably the 1960s conception of a futuristic fountain pen.

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More about it in this thread.

[An old bloke]

Explain to me why the pen appears to be floating in space and she -- and everything else in view -- is not.

[FredRydr]

Explain to me why the pen appears to be floating in space and she -- and everything else in view -- is not.

Velcro slippers.

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(And...it's make-believe.)