Fountain Pens In Movies And Tv

[krandallkraus]

This should be easy for someone. In the original Smiley's People on BBC with Alec Guinness, when he writes the letter to KARLA, the head of Moscow Centre, he uses a fountain pen that looks like it might be a Sheaffer Targa/Ronce. Anyone know the answer to this?

If you haven't see the original BBC productions of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy or Smiley's People you should do yourself a favor and find it. Available on Netflix I'm sure. I watch these a couple times a year. That pen is bugging me.

[prf5]

I was channel flipping just now and found the Hallmark movie channel. The movie is "The Summer of Ben Tyler." The character played by James Woods, apparently an attorney, is talking with a witness while he plays with a black Sheaffer Imperial.

[gweimer1]

TCM just showed A Nun's Story, with Audrey Hepburn, over the week-end. I couldn't tell if she was using a fountain pen to take medical notes, but she did use a desk fountain pen to sign her exit paper from the convent.

 

From IMDB, on part of the plot:

When she leaves home to enter the convent, she places several items behind with a note that says:Please return to Jean. The items include a bracelet, a fountain pen, a photo of Jean, and her engagement ring. On second thought, she picks up the fountain pen and takes it with her. This is the same Jean that her father refers to later in the movie when he says "Jean never married." The pen also figures later in the movie when the Mistress of Postulants orders the postulants to deposit in a basket anything that represents a tie to the past. Gabrielle puts the pen in the basket.

Edited July 28, 2014 by gweimer1

[Anneleen]

I saw the original Oldboy a few days ago, and noticed a fountain pen. It starts at around 11:50. Anyone knows what it could be?

http://youtu.be/y50m2580vQw

[oregano]

Poirot uses one in the most recent episode aired in the US, "The Big Four" to cross off a list of suspects. I think it's a Waterman. More discerning eyes can confirm...

 

[chiaroscuro]

An Eversharp Skyline in Gattaca caught me by surprise. I re-watched it on Netflix about a month ago and I was constantly googling things from it (cars, buildings, etc.). Pretty clever of the people in charge of the visuals to go with retro-futurism.

[finansista]

I've seen "Transcendence" in the cinema some time ago and was pretty sure that the main character had a red Parker Duofold lying around in one of the scenes (around 20 minute). Well now I have checked it and it seems it is rather a Parker Big Red or even something else. Nice accent anyway:

[carlos.q]

It's the year 2046. Various alien races live on Earth together with what's left of Humanity. And according to SyFy's "Defiance", the character Mordecai who "handles legal matters" uses a blue Sheaffer No Nonsense to sign some papers:

The episode is: "If you could see her through my eyes".

[carlos.q]

I just watched for a second time the 1976 movie "Carrie" and, at the 10 minute mark, the school principal uses a desk pen to write a note:

 

This looks a lot like a Parker 45 desk pen:

 

 

[gweimer1]

How Green Was My Valley - Walter Pidgeon uses a dip pen to sign his resignation letter.

 

Realizing, of course, that the ballpoint pen really didn't make any real presence until the mid 1940's, you would expect films released earlier than that, and any period films to portray writing with the appropriate instruments.

[Koji]

There's a couple of Korean dramas that I remember were using a fountain pen. Don't remember the name of the show and I'm not good enough with fountain pen to identify them.

[legitimate3]

There's a couple of Korean dramas that I remember were using a fountain pen. Don't remember the name of the show and I'm not good enough with fountain pen to identify them.

 

Fountain pens are in a lot of Korean dramas if you look closely. More recently, I think I saw one in Hotel King. There was a rich guy who came from China to sign a deal and he used a fountain pen.

 

On page 4 someone mentions a k-pop video that uses a fountain pen. The video they posted is deleted, but I think that person was talking about "Fiction" by B2ST. Here's the link, you can see fountain pen usage at 4:41

http://i.imgur.com/EzvIBTa.png

 

On page 7 someone mentioned fountain pen usage in the Korean drama Ojakgyo Brothers (weekend drama?)

 

Kim Soohyun's character in You Who Came from the Stars used a fountain pen.

 

This is more of a summary of everything I've seen. I don't watch Korean dramas that much anymore. I'm sure you can find a lot more if you look. If I see I will tell you. Korean dramas are filled with rich people that either a. fall in love with a person who is poor or b. are the most horrible antagonists on Earth.

[Darcy1978]

I just mentioned this movie in another post, which made me think of this one. The 1984 Dutch movie "Ciske de Rat" (Ciske the Rat) starts with the titular hero, the good-for-nothing 8 year old Ciske, pouring half a bottle of school ink all over his teacher. School tabels used to have a little built-in inkwell, which was filled from the large school bottles. The movie is set in 1930s Amsterdam, and the ink-pouring occurs right at the beginning:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOjGPyrghjM&list=PLAA66652DA261F24B&index=1

[kwisatz]

I also want to come back to Penny dreadful.

Episode 5 of Season 1 sees Vanessa writing one of many letters to Mina.

I deliver some snapshots, they are the best I could make :

 

http://up.picr.de/19142035at.jpg

http://up.picr.de/19142036cr.jpg

http://up.picr.de/19142037kz.jpg

 

Is it an authentic period (victorian) pen or a modern equivalent ?

They had a quartz pocket watch in that show, so maybe they went for style instead of antique props.

Anyone have an idea ?

Edited August 7, 2014 by kwisatz

[sail0rm00n]

"42" when Jackie Robinson signs his contract.

[Cordovian]

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....

 

That's very similar to a Laban I'm thinking about buying. Same maker?

http://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/MTIwMFgxNjAw/z/y1oAAOSwnDZT28kQ/$_57.JPG

[inkstainedruth]

Just watch tonight's episode of _Unforgettable_ and the murderer was caught because she apparently used a Montegrappa fountain pen and ink! (Apparently on TV forensics can narrow down ink ingredients to specific brands -- and it wasn't even Noodler's ink ).

Didn't get a good enough look at the pen, though, so I don't know if it really was some model of Montegrappa.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[Freddy]

From Antonioni's Story of a Love Affair

 

I think it's a black Parker Vacumatic? I was surprised to see an American pen in an Italian film.

 

http://i.imgur.com/km3lJJM.png

 

A Williamson pen made in Italy..inspired by the Parker Vacumatic..

 

See the ad below....

http://www.fountainpen.it/images/thumb/8/82/1939-08-Williamson.jpg/180px-1939-08-Williamson.jpg

 

Fred

 

Redacting: The advertisement from Fountainpendot.it

Edited August 18, 2014 by Freddy

[carlos.q]

During the 1944 Fritz Lang movie "The Woman in the Window" the District Attorney (played by Raymond Massey) takes some notes with what seems to be a marbled pen (Parker Challenger?):

 

 

However, later it is revealed that he is taking notes with a mechanical pencil:

 

Edited August 18, 2014 by carlos.q

[katerchen]

In the season premiere of BBC's "Orphan Black", the creepy Dr. Nealon uses a FP in two different scenes. Looks like a Cross to me:

 

 

 

In a later episode, Sarah uses a FP (I'll need to go back and find that scene to get a better look) to sign a document that's rather important to the plot.

 

And she was scratching that paper something awful