Fountain Pens In Movies And Tv

[Flippy]

I thought in one movie I saw someone use a Parker Sonnet?

[rob-k]

Constantin Costa-Gavras's The Confession, here with Yves Montand signing the eponymous document, one of many such confessions he is coerced into inking. "[sign here] .... Then you can sleep." If only a fountain pen could, by itself, fulfill such a promise.

Edited February 19, 2017 by rob-k

[peterg]

Watched a recreation of a scene in the history of the SAS on BBC recently.

Sadly 'Winston Churchill' signed a paper using what looked like a 1980's imitation Mont Blanc.

Oh well......

[BillH]

Thought I saw Harold in "Person of Interest" using a MB roller or ball pen in one episode (couldn't tell which/what but the white star was pretty plain... Late season Four episode. The man wears bespoke European suits and shoes, what else is he going to use ?

[Fuzzy_Bear]

Last man standing.

[maus930]

I was watching a MASH rerun (ep 1-18) last nite and Col Blake was using an orange Parker --:"belonged to his Father"

[oregano]

Was watching Season 4 Episode 2, The Lying Detective, of Sherlock. The daughter of the billionaire, Faith, uses a fountain pen to jot down her father's crimes.

 

I think I recognized it--if memory serves, it looked like a S.T. Dupont, of some kind, though could be wrong.

[oregano]

Was watching Season 4 Episode 2, The Lying Detective, of Sherlock. The daughter of the billionaire, Faith, uses a fountain pen to jot down her father's crimes.

 

I think I recognized it--if memory serves, it looked like a S.T. Dupont, of some kind, though could be wrong.

[NinthSphere]

You're wrong.

 

Someone posted a decent close-up in a thread somewhere around here where you could see the Parker branded nib. It was one of the modern snap cap models, although I forget which one.

[MKeith]

I was watching a MASH rerun (ep 1-18) last nite and Col Blake was using an orange Parker --:"belonged to his Father"

Yep, saw the same thing. Looked like the full sized 1928 version.

[Jamesbeat]

When I was a kid at school in the UK in the mid '80's, we used to watch an educational programme called 'How We Used to Live'.

I recently found it online, and there is one episode that shows the father enthusing about the fountain pen that he had recieved as a Christmas present.

 

I think they were showing what a big deal that was, because it was set either during WWII or in the austerity period directly after.

A fountain pen would have been a pretty extravagant gift at that time.

Earlier in the episode they had been decorating their tree with beads from a broken necklace and cotton wool because they had nothing else.

[rob-k]

Michaelangelo Antonioni's Story of a Love Affair (Cronaca di un amore), 1950.

Edited February 27, 2017 by rob-k

[rob-k]

Not a fountain pen, but ... so what.

Michaelangelo Antonioni's L'Eclisse.

Vittoria (Monica Vitti) finds Piero's (Alain Delon) flip 'n strip ballpoint.

Edited March 4, 2017 by rob-k

[MRose]

I've watched 3 movies these past week, old movies but good ones, the funny thing that now I pay attention on things like pens LOL. I think in all these movies they were using deep pens...but you can correct me if I'm wrong.

 

Dances With Wolves with Kevin Costner when writing his diary.

http://i124.photobucket.com/albums/p29/emeraldqueen1/dancewithwolves_zpswcdte3jc.jpg

 

 

The Patriot with Heath Ledger as Gabriel writing letters

http://i124.photobucket.com/albums/p29/emeraldqueen1/patriot_zpsxqk39vjn.jpg

 

Cloud Atlas with Tom Hanks

http://i124.photobucket.com/albums/p29/emeraldqueen1/clouda_zps1sqmp1ld.gif

Edited March 5, 2017 by MRose

[carlos.q]

Before he was named Igor, the character played by Daniel Radcliff liked to draw with a dip pen in the 2015 movie "Victor Frankenstein":

 

[inkstainedruth]

There have been a couple of episodes of Victoria where the title character (a young Queen Victoria) is using dip pens to sign documents with. Don't know if the specific pen being used is accurate to the late 1830s-early 1840s (or the Royal Household), but at least it's a dip pen.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[tinta]

We just finished binge watching our boxed set of Foyle's War (not real binge - but one episode each night, till all the CDs were watched).

There was a lot of fountain pen use in evidence throughout the series. Almost every episode had the "flash" of a fountain pen somewhere. The action went so fast for me that I could not identify any of the pens.

Maddening but fun.

[rob-k]

Some sort of Sheaffer, I am guessing, in Jean-Jacques Beineix's Betty Blue. Beineix is possibly better known for directing Diva.

Edited March 14, 2017 by rob-k

[oregano]

 

Not a fountain pen, but ... so what.

Michaelangelo Antonioni's L'Eclisse.

Vittoria (Monica Vitti) finds Piero's (Alain Delon) flip 'n strip ballpoint.

 

 

Very cool, I didn't know about the existence of these pens. Were they popular in Italy in the 50's or 60's?

[HollyDav]

I'm new to FPN and this thread goes way back so forgive my ignorance. Has anyone captured the oh so dapper King of Hell, Crowley in Supernatural using a really beautiful fountain pen? I am way to inexperienced to know what it was but sure looked good.