Fountain Pens In Movies And Tv

[NinthSphere]

It's hard to tell from that angle, but it looks to me like it still has a step up to the button, not the full dome like the pens.

 

http://www.vintagepens.com/images/cat/11345.jpg

[Freddy]

Ok, this is one for the experts: In the 1945 movie "Objective, Burma!", starring Errol Flynn, the actor Henry Hull plays an older journalist that joins a group of paratroopers whose mission is to blow up an enemy radar station. During the trek, Hull documents the men's stories using what seems to be a Wahl Eversharp Skyline pencil. But, from what little I know, the Skyline pencils of the time did not have a domed cap like this one. Only Skyline fountain pens had this domed cap. Any ideas?

 

 

 

 

It is a Eversharp Skyline Ballpoint..appropriate for the time and environment.....

 

The mp posted above off of David Nishimura's site a uncommon

pencil with stainless steel hardware.......

http://www.vintagepens.com/catill_150to250.shtml

 

Fred

Beckett to a French journalist..who had asked if he was English....

Replied..'Au contraire.'

[carlos.q]

It is a Eversharp Skyline Ballpoint..appropriate for the time and environment.....

 

The mp posted above off of David Nishimura's site a uncommon

pencil with stainless steel hardware.......

http://www.vintagepens.com/catill_150to250.shtml

 

Fred

 

Nice try! But... According to this account the Eversharp Skyline ballpoint went to market after october 1945:

http://www.penhero.com/PenGallery/Eversharp/EversharpCABallpoint.htm

However "Objective, Burma!" was released on February 17, 1945. It would have been impossible for a journalist (or an actor playing one) to use a ballpoint that hadn't gone to market. So the mystery continues...

Edited December 19, 2014 by carlos.q

[NinthSphere]

The pencil I posted is dated '41.

[welch]

In "It's a Wonderful Life", Mr. Potter has an Eversharp Skyline on his desk as he plots evil against Jimmy Stewart and the town. Just saw the movie on "the big screen" at the New York Historical Society. The pen is just at the bottom of the screen...would be hard to spot on TV.

[Mr. JW]

I was watching "A Christmas Story" yesterday and, in the scene where Ralphie gets his BB gun, there is a desk pen (can't tell what type) and a bottle of ink (appears to be Sheaffer Skrip) on the desk behind which the present was hidden.

[Cepasaccus]

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 ?

 

Could be a full silver overlay Mabie Todd & Bard/Co. The Swan pen with over/under feed.

[Cepasaccus]

The pen has indeed an over/under feed. Though the grip section does not look like a Swan to me. Maybe it is a De La Rue Onoto plunger filler.

[Jbloodwo]

Although not really any way to get screen shots yet. There are lots of juicy fountain pen shots in the imitation game. The only one I am close to thinking I saw was am MB in the head masters office during a flashback shot.

[carlos.q]

There is a very prominent shot of a gold nibbed pen in The King's Speech, when the ailing George V, just before his death, signs a document giving authority to Prince Edward, who briefly succeeded him before his own abdication. I don't know enough to identify it; perhaps someone else could.

 

This is the screenshot of that scene. Onoto perhaps?

 

[Freddy]

 

This is the screenshot of that scene. Onoto perhaps?

 

https://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/index.php/topic/19810-penspotting/?p=1943673

 

Sheaffer Connaisseur {Grand?} Gold Plated....

 

Fred

send happiness....write that letter today........

[theexpanciluser]

I watched a documentary, where the narrator was using a Montblanc to write with. It seems like most pens on tv today are montblancs. There is also a USA donald duck ww2 cartoon, where donald duck uses to sign his taxes with the pen xD.

[Freddy]

I watched a documentary, where the narrator was using a Montblanc to write with. It seems like most pens on tv today are montblancs. There is also a USA donald duck ww2 cartoon, where donald duck uses to sign his taxes with the pen xD.

Pray tell, which documentary. I'm sure a lot of folks would like to know.

 

Fred

good nite everybody..

[pdc13]

If you count the 2015 Golden Globes red carpet as TV, then add Helen Mirren with a blue fountain pen pinned to her dress in support of free speech in reference to the Charlie Hebdo attack.

 

http://www.harpersbazaar.com.br/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/helen-mirren-jesuis-charlie-golden-globes.jpg

 

By the way, besides sponsoring the pre-Golden Globes celebrity gift lounge, Pilot will be gifting each attendee with a Vanishing Point fountain pen and a FriXion Clicker.

 

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/pilot-pen-celebrates-timeless-art-of-self-expression-300016490.html

Edited January 12, 2015 by pdc13

[inkstainedruth]

If you count the 2015 Golden Globes red carpet as TV, then add Helen Mirren with a blue fountain pen pinned to her dress in support of free speech in reference to the Charlie Hebdo attack.

 

http://www.harpersbazaar.com.br/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/helen-mirren-jesuis-charlie-golden-globes.jpg

 

By the way, besides sponsoring the pre-Golden Globes celebrity gift lounge, Pilot will be gifting each attendee with a Vanishing Point fountain pen and a FriXion Clicker.

 

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/pilot-pen-celebrates-timeless-art-of-self-expression-300016490.html

Cool!

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[usk15]

House of Games: I believe this is a WATERMAN LE MAN 100 BLACK FOUNTAIN PEN, but not 100% sure.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093223/?ref_=nv_sr_1

 

http://i60.tinypic.com/8wf487.jpg

[jjlax10]

Although not really any way to get screen shots yet. There are lots of juicy fountain pen shots in the imitation game. The only one I am close to thinking I saw was am MB in the head masters office during a flashback shot.

 

There were a number of pens. John Cairncross had a Parker Duofold, I believe Turing himself used an Onoto or Conway Stewart. The police detective looked like he had a hooded nib pen.

 

Apparently Alan Turing invented his own filling system as a young man. His biography on which the movie is based discusses it briefly, and can be viewed on Google Books.

[oregano]

As a Conway Stewart fan, I was positively psyched to see a Conway Stewart 60 executive in black (I think) on 'Granchester' ep 1 (Masterpiece Mystery) this week. Fits perfectly with the time and place of the show, kudos to the propmaster!

[Charles Rice]

House of Games: I believe this is a WATERMAN LE MAN 100 BLACK FOUNTAIN PEN, but not 100% sure.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093223/?ref_=nv_sr_1

 

http://i60.tinypic.com/8wf487.jpg

It is. Either that, or a perfect fake

[CAG_1787]

Good grief - Helen Mirren is such a stunning, classy lady (and took several steps if her pen combines a fountain pen interest with a defense of free speech).