Fountain Pens In Movies And Tv

[lovementos]

I'm not sure what pen this is, but this screenie was from the movie Butter (2011)

http://i1279.photobucket.com/albums/y529/lovementos/Butter_zps434df095.png

Edited April 9, 2013 by lovementos

[yian]

Just saw the Great Gatsby. Good movie, but that's besides the point.

Can anyone please identify the fountain pen in the last scene, as the author writes in "The Great" over the typed "Gatsby" on the manuscript?

[rx170]

I'm not sure what pen this is, but this screenie was from the movie Butter (2011)

http://i1279.photobucket.com/albums/y529/lovementos/Butter_zps434df095.png

 

Looks to me like some model of InoxCrom.

[HDoug]

Just saw the Great Gatsby. Good movie, but that's besides the point.

 

Can anyone please identify the fountain pen in the last scene, as the author writes in "The Great" over the typed "Gatsby" on the manuscript?

 

I came here looking for the answer too. It was a two-tone nib with "bands" of tone like I've seen on Montblanc nibs. I'm hoping a Montblanc aficionado will be able to get more model specific, and of course, tell us if the model was available in 1922 when the movie was set.

 

I did notice a mechanical pencil near the beginning of the movie and assumed it was a Yard-O-Led. But I looked up the history and they were founded after the movie's 1922. Of course, it could be a YOL used incorrectly as a prop.

 

And just incidentally, yes I give the movie itself high ratings!

 

Doug

[CharlieTurtle]

I don't know if he was right, or if he'd been duped, but Ian Somerhalder once commented that in LOST (the pilot episode) the first pen his character (Boone) picks up is his (Ian's) own fountain pen. He only mentioned it because he was furious someone had put his previous pen in the sand, which I thought was sweet However, Boone has such a big handful of pens I couldn't see if any of them are FPS.

[Harlequin]

 

I came here looking for the answer too. It was a two-tone nib with "bands" of tone like I've seen on Montblanc nibs. I'm hoping a Montblanc aficionado will be able to get more model specific, and of course, tell us if the model was available in 1922 when the movie was set.

 

I did notice a mechanical pencil near the beginning of the movie and assumed it was a Yard-O-Led. But I looked up the history and they were founded after the movie's 1922. Of course, it could be a YOL used incorrectly as a prop.

 

And just incidentally, yes I give the movie itself high ratings!

 

Doug

 

Before the pencil is seen, the Doctor also uses a FP and then replaces it into his coat pocket; but it's too far in the bg to actually see any details. Additionally, there is what looks like a dip pen in the same scene. As for the pen you are talking about, I thought the same thing about the nib, that it was a MB. But to me it looks very much like a modernish two tone MB nib, nothing that would have been appropriate for that time period.

[maus930]

I was watching a recent rerun of a "MONK" episode "Mr Monk and the Birds and the Bees" the killer is quite wealthy and wants everyone to know he has only the finest things --

As the camera pans through one of the rooms of his palatial house there is a writing table with stationery and a Mont Blanc either 146 or 149 on the table

[Stephen2020]

There was a Monk episode which has maybe the worst storyline mistake ever in existance. A killer steals gold bars and melts them down into liquid gold then writes them into notebooks as pen ink!

Edited May 30, 2013 by Stephen2020

[empyrean]

Watched a "Father Knows Best" old tv show. Kathy stepped on her sister's new fountain pen. So she does odd jobs and earns a whopping $10 to replace Betty's pen. In the 1950s, ten bucks for a pen was a lot of money!! What I chuckled about was the drugstore scene when Kathy buys the pen. It shows a cardboard pen display with about ten different fountain pens from which to choose. Wouldn't it be nice to walk into a drug store today and be able to buy a nice fountain pen (or any fountain pen) for ten bucks!!

[Cognaticrotty]

if you watch Brooklyn DA on tv (New Show...real cases), the DA named OH is using a Burgundy Sailor 1911. and it gets quite a bit of air time (for a pen)...

[cybaea]

In the opening scenes of Resident Evil Milla Jovovich walks over to a desk and uses a fountain pen (an overlay of some kind) to cross out something on a note pad.

 

 

Don't know which one it is, though....

[maus930]

Wish i had known about the Brooklyn DA exposure -- I will try and catch the next one -- I have a Sailor 1911 on the way -- due tuesday

[watch_art]

the great gatsby

 

pen at the beginning looked like a Conklin to me - after he put it in his pocket with that clip anyways...

I thought the nib looked like a Parker Duofold though...

 

 

I thought the pen at the end as a Montblanc - but it looked modern.

[Nashten]

In a movie called 'The Fountain' there is a nice dip pen that's seen a few times... and it plays a fairly major role.

 

 

 

[legume]

In an episode of the recent BBC series Sherlock. Sherlock Holmes deduces that the writing on a note was done by Parker Duofold. I think he might be a little more specific than that but I'm not sure. Pretty impressive from just the writing.

 

You don't see the pen but he mentions the pen by name.

 

 

"Parker Duofold, iridium nib!"

 

That was a silly scene. You can't tell which fountain pen was used by the writing, and of course it had an iridium point!

 

 

 

[carlos.q]

I recently saw the film noire classic "Nocturne" and identified three scenes with fountain pens:

- 2 pen desk set on the Chief of Detectives' desk

- 2 pen desk set on the receptionist's desk at the photographer's studio

- 1 pen desk set at Frances' apartment

No way I could identify the pens, but the desk set at the photographer's studio was very peculiar as the pens were placed in what appears to be glass spheres.

[Mickey]

Although not in the finished film, a Parker 51 did make an appearance in a scene deleted from "Dirty Dancing." (It's in the extras of the latest BluRay edition.)

[Runnin_Ute]

Not sure what the pen is, but in Miracle on 34th Street there is a scene where the Maureen O' Hara's character writes a note to Santa on her daughter's letter to him.Of course the film was released in 1947 so a FP would be appropriate.

 

Also in this years film 42 about Jackie Robinson, there is a scene where a bunch of ballplayers sign a petition. Again, film set in 1946 or 1947.

[Tom Aquinas]

In Johnny Depp's Dark Shadows the villainess witch "Angie" in 1972, has a capped gold colored Parker 75 on her desk.

[CoolFool]

Ozzie and Harriet episode "The New Neighbor" introduces the character of "Doc Williams" (played by Frank Cady) and centers around a the loan of a fountain pen.

 

Ozzie and Harriet episode "Barry's Birthday" has Ozzie mistakenly filling his fountain pen with disappearing ink, causing some confusion.

 

Recent movie (which I did not care for, but that's another matter) White House Down has the President of the United States using a fountain pen in a creative and effective way.

 

I particularly like it when a fountain pen is used as a plot device rather than only as a prop.

Edited July 17, 2013 by CoolFool