In the 2016 movie "Alone in Berlin", the main character Otto Quangel uses a dip pen to write 285 post cards denouncing Hitler and the Nazi regime during World War II. In this scene a top SS officer uses a Pelikan 100 pen:
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In the 2016 movie "Alone in Berlin", the main character Otto Quangel uses a dip pen to write 285 post cards denouncing Hitler and the Nazi regime during World War II. In this scene a top SS officer uses a Pelikan 100 pen:
AloneSS.jpg
gclv_pen$ (January 2nd, 2024)
During the series "Wartime Crime" there is an episode about a German serial killer nicknamed the "demon doctor". On his desk are a few modern bottles of Montblanc ink (two of them are empty):
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Herr doctor then writes with a FP that looks a lot like a modern Kaweco Liliput:
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gclv_pen$ (January 2nd, 2024)
Before the opening credits of the 2011 film "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy" John Hurt appears as the MI-6 chief "Control" and uses an Osmia FP in 1973 London. I would have thought his colleagues should have suspected that "C" was the mole for not using a Conway Stewart.
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fountainpenkid (March 20th, 2018), gclv_pen$ (January 2nd, 2024), oldstoat (March 31st, 2018)
In the 1969 movie "On her Majesty's Secret Service" Sir Hilary Bray uses a Parker 65 Insignia/Signet:
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Earlier in the movie you can see a bottle of Quink on Moneypenny's desk, while later on James Bond uses a Parker 51 and one of Blofeld's goons uses a dip pen.
Last edited by carlos.q; March 4th, 2018 at 09:37 AM.
gclv_pen$ (January 2nd, 2024)
During a chapter the series "WWII: Masters of War" on Winston Churchill, there is a reenactment of the Prime Minister writing with a black Parker 51:
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The pen is also seen, uncapped, upon his desk:
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gclv_pen$ (January 2nd, 2024)
Vive les chevaliers! A bas les têtes rondes!
oldstoat (March 31st, 2018)
This is a British Pathe documentary. Anyone care to identify the pickle expert's pen at 1:46. Later they refer to the nurse's pen leaking in the low pressure chamber, though you can not see any detail when she hands it over before entering.
https://youtu.be/l6c-Z2u1S8Q
gclv_pen$ (January 2nd, 2024)
My wife and I saw the new Tomb Raider movie yesterday. Lara Croft used a fountain pen to sign some documents...
The Twilight Zone episode: What You Need. The scene where the protagonist is given a leaky fountain pen from which a drop of ink chooses a winning horse. There are some closeups, and I think it's a Wearever.
The pen won't leak in this later scene, so he cannot pick a horse and he blows his top.
Last edited by FredRydr; March 21st, 2018 at 11:16 AM.
carlos.q (March 24th, 2018), fountainpenkid (March 28th, 2018), gclv_pen$ (January 2nd, 2024), Kaputnik (March 24th, 2018)
During the 2016 movie "Allied" set during the Second World War there is a scene with a pen that appears to be a Conway Stewart...
Conway.jpg
... with a broad stubby nib:
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gclv_pen$ (January 2nd, 2024)
carlos.q (March 28th, 2018)
I've begun to watch an interesting series named "The Terror" about a 1847 Royal Navy expedition sent to find a Northwest Passage through the Arctic. No fountain pens but some nice writing by Sir John with a dip pen:
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Here is a scene with a writing slope in the foreground:
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Spoiler alert: the series name not only refers to one of the expedition's ships (HMS Terror) but also a very dangerous predator that attacks the ship's crew.
In the British comedy series The Windsors, which I've been watching on Netflix, Pippa Middleton writes a letter with...I don't know. What would you say, Parker Vector? I don't actually have one myself.
"If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly."
G.K. Chesterton
Well, they do have a royal warrant, but a Vector? Satire, perhaps.
This is supposed to be 1925 after Adolf Hitler was released from prison, and Nazi Gregor Strasser holds what appears to be a Pelikan manufactured decades later.
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The Dark Charisma of Adolf Hitler: Leading Millions into the Abyss, Episode 1 at 19:50.
BBC, currently available on Netflix.
carlos.q (April 9th, 2018), fountainpenkid (April 9th, 2018), gclv_pen$ (January 2nd, 2024), Kaputnik (April 9th, 2018)
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