Fountain Pens In Movies And Tv

[Freddy]

During the first few minutes of the episode "The Dying Minutes" of SyFy's series "Continuum", the character Alec Sadler writes down some GPS coordinates with a golden FP:

 

 

 

No idea what it was. Sheaffer maybe?

 

To my eye the section , nib ,and feed remind me of the Sheaffer Prelude in the fluted all gold plated version..sans cap..of course.

 

Fred

[carlos.q]

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:

 

[Ernst Bitterman]

That Continuum pen might be a Sheaffer 300-- I think I see the cap-holding bulge around the tail. I'd support the Orphan Black pen being a Cross-- it looks mightily like an Aventura (which means the creepy doctor is not spending very much money on his pen):

 

http://dirck.delint.ca/beta/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Cross-0436.jpg

[lehrer07]

In the 2013 film Mr. Nobody, Nemo Nobody (played by Jared Leto) writes a love letter with a fountain pen in a flashback scene set in the late 1980s or early 1990s.

[Yaakova]

There are a few MB"s poking around in Valkerie (with Tom Cruise). I hate the actor, but I loved the movie.

Agreed. A friend dragged me to see War of the Worlds, and I cheered for the Martians.

[Ecriveur]

I saw an episode of Penny Dreadful recently and wondered what fountain pen Timothy Dalton was using. It looked too modern for the time period in which the show takes place, but I could be mistaken.

[carlos.q]

During the 1947 french film drama "Les Maudits" (The damned) the french collaborator Couturier uses a FP in various scenes, but it is difficult to say what make or model:

 

[Michigan]

 

According to Conway Stewart, Churchill used, well, a Conway Stewart of course.

 

http://www.conwaystewart.com/product_info.php?cPath=37_13&products_id=56&osCsid=afa161c9d433b207add1438ed2fe8bf4

 

Bruce in Ocala, Fl

And Onoto has a quote of him in the Great War asking his wife to send him another Onoto.

[Michigan]

Daniel Craig, in "Flashbacks of a Fool", writes the life-changing note to his old flame with a Montblanc 144.

 

It was a promising film poorly edited--too slow. But Roxy Music's "If There Is Something," which plays while he writes the letter blew my mind. If there is a God, he probably listens to it on vinyl. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOHwuF3oD30

 

 

[wlwilcox]

In the movie 'The Gray' 2011, when Liam writes the letter, isn't that a FP?

 

Yes, I just watched it today however I couldn't tell what brand it is. It is a very modern style.

[dooooooor]

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

[lehrer07]

I spotted an MB-lookalike or FP of indeterminate origin in the 1993 Mexican vampire horror film CRONOS directed by Guillermo del Toro on the writing desk of an antiques dealer in the first 15 minutes or so of the movie.

 

[carlos.q]

During a recent BBC interview, Afghan president Karzai uses a Pelikan Souveran to sign some papers. M800 perhaps?

 

Edited July 19, 2014 by carlos.q

[SkylarKnight]

Just recently I watched a Korean drama called "Heirs", and one of the main characters was using an FP to do his homework and write in his journal. I was so surprised and pleased to see that!

[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.