Fountain Pens In Movies And Tv

[halffriedchicken]

There is a Korean drama called Mr. Sunshine where there are two scenes with people using a fountain pen in one episode. Both pens look like the same black Parker Vector. In writing English it’s the typical pen grip, but in the other picture it looks like he is holding a brush. 

[Carrau]

On 3/25/2021 at 9:37 PM, mizgeorge said:

Is nobody else watching Unforgotten? (ITV 9pm on Mondays, final episode next week).

 

A most original use for a fountain pen.

I just watched this.  There was another second suspect in Season 4 who used a fountain pen in one of the early episodes.  That episode clearly drew attention to the pen being used, leading one to conclude that suspect must be the killer.  Later, however,  the police never discussed that other suspect’s use of a fountain pen, so I have to  assume they chose to edit that out as far as being a clue to the identity of the killer / red herring (I don’t want to give anything away/spoil the plot by mentioning the other suspect).  

[BorisoftheStars]

I used the search function and came up with zero forum results. There is a scene in the movie Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, and there's a fountain pen of some kind that one of the main characters use to write in a book. It looks like a pen that's made up and not an actual pen made by a maker. I've never seen the movie but found a clip of it.

[inkstainedruth]

Forgot to mention this one, even though it was from a week or so ago....

In a recent episode of Grantchester Leonard (the curate) has been arrested for being gay and (in order to protect his boyfriend) has pled guilty (claiming he had been with a stranger).  He's shown signing the confession with a fountain pen, but didn't get a good enough look at the make and model.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[welch]

Peter Jackson's Beatles documentary, "Get Back" shows that the Beatles road manager, Mal (Evans?) uses a Sheaffer fp to write lyrics as the Beatles imagine words to fit their music. Or to revise what they have been singing. Thick gold band, looking something like a Snorkel, but has, I think, an inlaid nib. Maybe an Imperial?

 

Looks something like the black Imperial with 800 cap in Jim Mamoulides site here: https://penhero.com/PenGallery/Sheaffer/SheafferInlaidNibs.htm

 

 

[inkstainedruth]

So, you're saying yet ANOTHER reason to watch that....   (Saw a clip on one of the late night talk shows last week when Peter Jackson was a guest).

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[AAAndrew]

On 9/18/2021 at 3:23 AM, halffriedchicken said:

There is a Korean drama called Mr. Sunshine where there are two scenes with people using a fountain pen in one episode. Both pens look like the same black Parker Vector. In writing English it’s the typical pen grip, but in the other picture it looks like he is holding a brush. 

 

Two different holds for two different writing systems. Nice catch. 

[inkstainedruth]

Watching the most recent episode of CSI: Las Vegas, from last night, and a fountain pen and ink are clues!  The bad guy (a lawyer) uses some sort of Parker c/c pen, and one of the clues is something written in Diplomat Royal Blue ink (which looks like a nice color, BTW).  

Of course the 64K question amongst those in the know (aka FPN members) is whether Diplomat cartridges fit in a proprietary brand pen....

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[BorisoftheStars]

The other week around Thanksgiving, there was a program, and the topic was "calligraphy". At one point, the host or the guy visiting the calligraphy classes mentioned "fountain pen". I don't know if we see it since someone called me for something... bummer, but the classes were so cool!

[merlinsfv]

1 hour ago, BorisoftheStars said:

The other week around Thanksgiving, there was a program, and the topic was "calligraphy". At one point, the host or the guy visiting the calligraphy classes mentioned "fountain pen". I don't know if we see it since someone called me for something... bummer, but the classes were so cool!

I think you're referring to Visiting with Huell Howser on KCET Southern California.  He was covering a calligraphy convention somewhere in the Inland Empire.  It was an interesting program. 

[BorisoftheStars]

4 minutes ago, merlinsfv said:

I think you're referring to Visiting with Huell Howser on KCET Southern California.  He was covering a calligraphy convention somewhere in the Inland Empire.  It was an interesting program. 

Right, that must have been it. That name looks familiar, and I remember it being a convention.

[Paul-in-SF]

On 12/9/2021 at 5:43 PM, inkstainedruth said:

Of course the 64K question amongst those in the know (aka FPN members) is whether Diplomat cartridges fit in a proprietary brand pen....

 

Sounds like an excellent plot point for a mystery, something that is absolutely knowable but about which 99% of readers will have (you should forgive the expression) no clue. 

 

You could also have the lab determine that, say, the ink that the testator used to sign the will is a later formulation only available after the testator died, thereby proving that the will is a forgery! 

 

It writes itself. 

[Paul-in-SF]

A movie I watched on TV today, a very weird movie called Bad Times at the El Royale and which I highly recommend if you like that sort of thing, it was set in 1969, and the check-in desk had a fountain pen desk pen. Several people used it to sign into the register, but I couldn't see enough of the pen to even guess at what brand it was. It was certainly a fountain pen because they showed it from the top and you could see the nib in operation. Nice. 

[alexwi]

From The Men Who Built America. Rockefeller signing a check with what seems to be an extreeeeemely early Parker IM:

 

I imagine that someone in the production team's old enough to know that people didn't use Pilot G2's back then, but what irks me, especially from a show into which a lot of research must've gone, is that all it takes to avoid a stupid mistake like this one is to spend 10 minutes on google.

 

Alex

[Checklist]

Could be the same pen that showed up in the U-20 during the Lusitania special I watched some years ago.  The early success of the IM is obviously underreported.

[Larry Barrieau]

"The Walton's"   Season 4   Episode 2     The Genius       time stamp   48        Johnboy writing in his journal with what looks like a Parker Big Red Junior.

 

Sorry, I don't know how to get it from there to here.

[Paul-in-SF]

There is an old TV show (1954-1956) which you can find on YouTube, starring Boris Karloff as Colonel March of Scotland Yard. The intro features him sitting down to a desk, opening a large-format bound volume, and starting to write in it with a fountain pen. 

 

What struck me about it was not the pen so much (which I couldn't identify) but the way he writes with it, i.e. in textbook fashion. He holds the pen at a rather shallow angle, and when he is writing he moves his whole arm. It's quite strikingly unlike the way a person would write with a ballpoint. It really should be included in an instructional video, "How to Write with a Fountain Pen." 

[carlos.q]

44 minutes ago, Paul-in-SF said:

There is an old TV show (1954-1956) which you can find on YouTube, starring Boris Karloff as Colonel March of Scotland Yard. The intro features him sitting down to a desk, opening a large-format bound volume, and starting to write in it with a fountain pen. 

Looks like a Parker 51. 

[Monophoto]

Watched the Morse episode titled "Fat Chance" (series 5 episode 2 on the BritBox streaming service).  The victim dies while writing an Oxford University exam paper with a fountain pen; she drops the pen and it rolls off the table onto the floor.  Unfortunately, the pen doesn't have any other role in the story.  Didn't recognize the pen.

[Paul-in-SF]

7 hours ago, carlos.q said:

Looks like a Parker 51. 

 

I believe you're right, I was finally able to find a somewhat less fuzzy-looking episode and it definitely looks like a hooded nib, which makes the P51 the most likely. It was lying on the desk already posted and ready to write, so I doubt he would have gotten much writing out of it.

 

This is a British production made in London, so I'm a bit surprised they didn't use a pen of English manufacture. Perhaps that was Karloff's own pen that he brought with him from the US.