Fountain Pens In Movies And Tv

[Kaptenmork]

In the movie 'The Gray' 2011, when Liam writes the letter, isn't that a FP?

[Tom Aquinas]

Last night watched a DVD of an old 1950'sUK comedy starring John Gregson The Captain's Table. he was clearly using a Parker Duofold. On cable TV the 1967 murder suspense with WW2 as a background , The Night of the Generals starring Peter O'Toole, showed him using a black fountain pen a bit like a Shaeffer Valiant.

[penznmaine]

I was just watching "Any Human Heart" on dvd. It shows several shots of a vintage fountain pen being used. I was into the movie and my eyesight isn't too good so I didn't see the brand.

Edited April 15, 2012 by penznmaine

[bunnybaby]

Not sure if this movie is already mentioned; I saw a Montblanc fountain pen used by the leading character (played by Selma Blair) in "Columbus Circle". The fact that she's smart and could get herself out of a very tricky situation makes her character even more interesting. The fountain pen and the wax seal part are really nice details.

[carlos.q]

In Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Dr. Henry Jones (Sean Connery) is inside a German tank with a German soldier's arm wrapped around his neck as they fight. Connery reaches inside his jacket, pulls out a FP, reverses it, and manages to pull the filling lever with with his thumb, squirting the soldier in the eye with the effectiveness of a Tom and Jerry cartoon. This seems unlikely to me. When I pull the lever on my lever fillers, I get messy blobs, not malicious jets capable of shooting upward a couple of feet with precise aim.

 

It's difficult to see the fountain pen, but the end of it seems to form a perfect hemisphere.

 

I saw this movie movie (again) last night and I believe the pen is some type of button filler. Anyway I don't know if any type of button filler can spray ink in that way.

 

In "Casablanca" there is an interesting reference to a FP: as Rick (Humphrey Bogart) waits at the train station in Paris he is given a note from Ilsa, evidently written with an FP ink as the rain makes the ink wash away. No doubt the note was written in Waterman Florida Blue...

[Freddy]

Presumably made in France..Waterman Florida Blue ink..

 

"No doubt the note was written in Waterman Florida Blue"

Casablanca..scene at Train Station with Rick and Sam...Note at 0:38-0:47..follow the url..

 

 

 

Fred

Edited April 15, 2012 by Freddy

[pienaar]

In Mash the TV series Colonel Blake puts what I think was a Parker in a cup of coffee.

[Tom Aquinas]

In Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Dr. Henry Jones (Sean Connery) is inside a German tank with a German soldier's arm wrapped around his neck as they fight. Connery reaches inside his jacket, pulls out a FP, reverses it, and manages to pull the filling lever with with his thumb, squirting the soldier in the eye with the effectiveness of a Tom and Jerry cartoon. This seems unlikely to me. When I pull the lever on my lever fillers, I get messy blobs, not malicious jets capable of shooting upward a couple of feet with precise aim.

 

It's difficult to see the fountain pen, but the end of it seems to form a perfect hemisphere.

 

Now we know why our mothers when we were 13, 14, 15 youths at High School insisted that the school book shop ONLY sold washable ink and cartridges.Now some of those ink fights would have made a great action movie.

best wishes

Tom AQuinas

[l4yercak3]

Edit Oops sorry I see the carene has been named.

Edited April 16, 2012 by l4yercak3

[Philosophy Student]

Operation valkyrie, not the tomcruise one, at the start a number of long shots of him writing with a german pen. Nt sure which one,i would love to know though.

[Tom Aquinas]

Operation valkyrie, not the tomcruise one, at the start a number of long shots of him writing with a german pen. Nt sure which one,i would love to know though.

 

 

I have seen it and thought at the time it was a Pelikan. Tom Cruise uses a fountain pen in his Valkarie film, not certain what it is, it may have been a Pelikan also.

 

Have you noticed in the more recent films portraying 30s, and 40s events that whilst fountain pens are used , rarely if ever are mecahinical pencils used as props.

Best Wishes

Tom Aquinas :meow:

Edited April 16, 2012 by Tom Aquinas

[rx170]

In the Russian movie Battle for Stalingrad general Chuikov is dictating a letter to Stalin that is written by a soldier with the unknown dip pen.

 

 

 

 

[Tom Aquinas]

In the Thomas Crown Affair, Steve McQueen (TC) uses a Schaeffer desk f/p as a prop.

 

Best Wishes

Tom Aquinas

[tonydent84]

My wife was watching a Bollywood film tonight and she paused it to call me over. The scene was with an older man (father?) giving a younger man (son?) a Montblanc saying that he signed his first deal with that pen and he would like for the younger man to sign his first deal with the same pen. If anyone's interested, it's on Netflix called Vijay at 17 minutes. The movie is an older movie, 1988. It's either a fountain or rollerball as they didn't uncap it at that scene. It looks to me like a 149 (why my wife, who pays almost no attention to pens, was able to recognize it from my collection).

[Skoff]

There is a very short scene in the 2010 film 'The Tourist' where Timothy Dalton uses a Montblanc fountain pen (I'm still new to all this so don't have the skill to recognise which one, but definitely one of the more classic designs - Meisterstuck perhaps?). He is sat at a desk writing on some reports.

 

I have found an image of him looking down whilst doing it, but sadly not of the pen... bit of a fail, sorry.

 

http://i1056.photobucket.com/albums/t363/skoff13/TheTourist-TimothyDalton.jpg

[gizmoe]

In the movie Dances With Wolves, there are a couple of scenes where you see Kevin Costner with a dip pen and a bottle of ink, writing in his journal.

 

On the TV show Fringe, there is one episode where you see the character September, The Observer, in a diner observing some strange phenomenon, while writing in his notebook with a Parker 21. Coincidentally, I just acquired one just like it.

[Inked]

I've been in Hugo Cabret lately and in the final scene the little girl is writing with a pen - I was concentrating more on the plot than wanting to know which pen she uses.

But if you want to have a look at a vintage pen in a movie, go ahead :-)

 

Hello

Looked like a Waterman Red Ripple with a nice wet nib.

 

Inked

[Newjelan]

In the movie The Iron Lady, Meryl Streep as Margaret Thatcher uses fountain pens a few times. One is before she's PM and the second is later. The second is on her desk and I think it's a MB.

The earlier one looks anodized or something. I only saw it for a second so I can't be sure. It was a pale colour.

[atarian88]

In the 1976 Doctor Who serial The Deadly Assassin, the Doctor himself uses a fountain pen on more than one occassion. Here's the first:

 

The Deadly Assassin

[GallBladder]

Saw in a

look at the timer and watch the screen at 7 seconds to 10 seconds.

 

One of my favourite inexpensive and reliable pens.