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Fountain pens are not often seen in current TV and movies -- they were quite evident in the vintage flicks from the 20s and 30s.

Yesterday I was watching a MATLOCK rerun on Cable -- Episode "Ihe Accident" The killer was caught because he used a Fountain Pen

(with a flex nib) to sign a document and the victum had only received the pen hours before he was killed -- the document could only

have been signed by the killer with that pen because of its unique characteristics. Matlock remarked

-"this is a real fountain pen- I hear they are coming back"

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Quite a while ago, I was asked by a 'Film Prop Buyer' if I could supply a pen which could 'blot' on demand, I told her that I would give it some thought, and perhaps she could get back to me a while later.

She didn't do so, and I discovered a way of the pen 'blotting on demand', it turned out to be the advert for a car manufacturer, 'vore sprung dourke tecnik' [almost certainly the incorrect spelling!!!] but they avoided the actual blotting on demand.

Not much of a claim to fame!

Truffle Finder. :embarrassed_smile:

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the ones that come to mind quickly for me -

 

-the Nazi/farmhouse from Inglorious Basterds. he even fills it from an ink bottle in the scene.

-the movie The Fountain - a dip pen plays an important role in the plot.

-a recent episode of American Pickers - i was only half watching it, but the guy got a handful of vintage pens for like $40. argh! he's totally that guy.

I have a predilection towards preponderously sized nibs and I refuse to prevaricate

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i've seen a boy writing his diary with a Montblanc Meisterstück in a Turkish TV Serial.

Verba volant, scripta manet...

 

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the ones that come to mind quickly for me -

 

-a recent episode of American Pickers - i was only half watching it, but the guy got a handful of vintage pens for like $40. argh! he's totally that guy.

 

Do you remember anything else about the episode? I don't know how I could have missed that since I watch every episode!

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the ones that come to mind quickly for me -

 

-a recent episode of American Pickers - i was only half watching it, but the guy got a handful of vintage pens for like $40. argh! he's totally that guy.

 

Do you remember anything else about the episode? I don't know how I could have missed that since I watch every episode!

 

i think it was episode 9 or 10 of season 2. i'd like to find it somewhere or watch a rerun to see what exactly he got :P

I have a predilection towards preponderously sized nibs and I refuse to prevaricate

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Tom and Jerry -- SPLASH!!!!

Visconti Homo Sapiens; Lamy 2000; Unicomp Endurapro keyboard.

 

Free your mind -- go write

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-the Nazi/farmhouse from Inglorious Basterds. he even fills it from an ink bottle in the scene.

-the movie The Fountain - a dip pen plays an important role in the plot.

 

two of my favorites.

 

in the Stephen Fry show Kingdom he uses them on occasion.

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Stone - 2010

 

I think Deniro is using a Vanishing point in the beginning scenes.

 

Maybe I'm way off or just have fountain pen on the mind.

 

If its is what a nice pen being used by great actor in a good movie

 

 

I hope someone can confirm.

 

 

Also Deniro was in Casino where someone was stabbed to death in the neck with a fountain pen (what a way to go)

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In the Movie "Recount" about the 2000 US election, I saw multiple FP's

To hold a pen is to be at war

-Voltaire

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In the movie "Dirty Dozen", they used a dip pen for the hotel registry, and they dumped the ink well over.

Simple Thoughts from a Simple Bear

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I seem to recall in the movie "Enemy of the State" with Wil Smith and Gene Hackman there was a scene where Smith's character takes apart his Parker 51 looking for a tracking device.

Not to mention the numerous cartoons from the '40s and '50s when a lever fill FP would be squirted in the face of an antagonist for humerous effect.

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I'm not sure of the pen maker, but Hannibal uses a dip pen to write to Clarice in the movie Hannibal.

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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.

The above is MY opinion. Would you expect it to be from someone else?

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Tippi Hedren & Esterbrook.... I think.....in "The Birds"....when she addresses the envelope/note to Rod Taylor....

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