Robby!! But Robby can't hold a pen...can he(it)? Check out his extensive filmography: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1119475/?ref_=nv_sr_1
And look, now we know Dr. Who's Dalecks are a rip-off!
Robby!! But Robby can't hold a pen...can he(it)? Check out his extensive filmography: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1119475/?ref_=nv_sr_1
And look, now we know Dr. Who's Dalecks are a rip-off!
Last edited by FredRydr; February 3rd, 2019 at 12:25 PM.
carlos.q (February 3rd, 2019)
This one is from the 1973 spy thriller "Scorpio" with Burt Lancaster and Alain Delon. In this scene a top Soviet spy is subject to surveillance near a Montblanc store in Vienna.
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If you look on top of the Montblanc sign you will see a gold color pen. Maybe a MB 82 or 84?
Blue Note (February 17th, 2019), catbert (February 17th, 2019), fountainpenkid (February 17th, 2019)
From the 1993 film "Schindler's list": a Pelikan 100 is used to forge some work papers:
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In Peter Rabbit, the young Mr. MacGregor is using a fountain pen for birding... In the city.
I mentioned this awhile ago but I don't think I posted a screenshot. Or maybe I did.
Finally got to see this movie. The pen is an important prop during the movie as it is presented (Spoiler alert) as a parting gift, a writing instrument, evidence of a crime, hiding place for an evil magic bug and a welcome back gift.
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In the beginning of the movie the pen is object of an interesting conversation between the character played by Vin Diesel (Kaulder) and the character played by Michael Caine (Dolan the 36th):
Dolan 36: "This is a Waterman 402"
Kaulder: "I had your name engraved on it"
Dolan 36: "It's very rare"
Kaulder: "Probably lowered the value quite a bit"
Dolan 36: "Not to me"
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Here is Netflix's new series Traitors, season 1, episode 2 at 18.5 minutes, where an amoral American spy is forging a letter from a murdered US soldier to the latter's British lover. Note the unusual chasing down the entire length of the black hard rubber, including the section, which should be familiar to a collector of British pens.
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Last edited by FredRydr; March 31st, 2019 at 08:10 AM.
Is that an old Onoto?
Mabie Todd Blackbird?
We have a BBC TV show called "The Sheriffs are Coming" and on Tuesday I spotted a quick glimpse of this pen.
Does anyone know what it is? Sorry for the picture quality but it's a grabbed screen shot.
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and at 21 minutes, there's another pen that the protagonist is using to address an envelope to a suspected spy. This pen will be harder to identify, I bet:
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Parker Duofold?
In the movie "Hollow Man 2" (2006) there is a scene with a FP on a desk that I first thought was a Jinhao:
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However, after the character Colonel Bishop uses it to defend himself, the pen falls to the ground and is revealed to be a Waterman Phileas (note the tell-tale golden "cigar band" at one end).
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After Colonel Bishop uses the pen to attack the invisible Christian Slater ("Hollow Man") the latter screams:
"A pen? You stabbed me with a goddamn pen?"
PS. This movie is truly awful... Two thumbs down.
A modern Cross pen used a out halfway through last night's SNL skit:
Watched Mission Impossible (1996) for the third time since I saw it on the big screen and discovered that a mysterious arms dealer had a silver MB146 desk set...
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... which seems to be the same set at CIA headquarters:
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Meanwhile a rogue agent is limited to using a Pelikan K200 ballpoint:
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During the 2017 movie Darkest Hour, Gary Oldman (who plays Winston Churchill) uses a fountain pen in various scenes:
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It's difficult to identify the pens used but in the last picture the nib appears to have a "750" inscription so I very much doubt it is a period appropriate pen.
Some pen-adjacent character names in the first episode of The Class, a short-lived Doctor Who spinoff.
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carlos.q (April 27th, 2019)
Buster Keaton or a hand double uses a dip pen in The Playhouse (1921).
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The whole movie (writing part starts around 8:29):
carlos.q (April 27th, 2019)
The series Indian Summers is replete with fountain pens. In Season 1, Episode 6 at 11:10, there's one of those pen goofs we love to spot. There's a blue late '40s Parker 51 on a desk...in 1932. But wait! Perhaps, an Indian invented the iconic design and Parker stole it. And then, either the foothills of the Himalaya were saturated with blue 51s, or the same pen managed to cross the town to another house at 52:30.
The image appears backwards because it is depicted as a reflection in a mirror.
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Last edited by FredRydr; May 3rd, 2019 at 10:06 AM.
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