Fountain Pens In Movies And Tv

[Seele]

What surprises me here is the wrong ugly way to hold a fountain pen: with the middle finger in the section.

 

Actually it's the correct way to hold a writing brush: in this manner, the brush would stay perpendicular to the paper much easier, which facilitates writing. That said, in Japan, people learn to write using the more common "pen grip" even if writing with a brush, and the classic "brush grip" has fallen into disuse.

[dgreenwood116]

I'm not sure if somebody has spotted it already, though i was excited when i saw one being used in the t.v. show Revolution!

[Poetman]

Orwell's poignant 1984…in film

 

Around 6:30 and 51:00

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gM-9AgO5XDY

[Freddy]

Orwell's poignant 1984…in film

 

Around 6:30 and 51:00

 

 

 

Edmund O'Brien is usin'...hmm..I mean Winston is usin' a Parker Custom VS..

 

Fred

Shoot..a fella could have a pretty good weekend in Vegas with all that stuff....

Major Kong ~

[GregWrites]

PERRY MASON! of course. Attorneys were the consummate pen users.

 

Perry's desk set was a Parker 51 with black crystal base and two fountain pens.

See: http://www.perrymasontvseries.com/wiki/index.php/Extras/PenSet

[WilsonCQB1911]

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 ?

 

 

Yes, I was wondering about this too. Is it a Yard-o-Led??

[Poetman]

Nice Shot from a Jeeves and Wooster episode

[Kuscer]

In Back to the Future George McFly writes with a red Parker Vector.

[Poetman]

The great French resistance film by Melville, Army of Shadows:

 

 

 

Edited October 22, 2014 by Poetman

[carlos.q]

From the documentary "The Roosevelts: an intimate history" there is a picture of US president Woodrow Wilson using a fountain pen:

 

 

Wilson was president from 1913 to 1921 when most people would have used a dip pen. This FP could be a Waterman perhaps?

Edited October 27, 2014 by carlos.q

[byggyns]

I just spotted a FP in the sitcom "Selfie." Karen Gillan "Eliza Dooley" was using what I believe was a Cross Century (Medalist finish) to write in the episode "Nuggets of Wisdom." It was a brief flash of the pen, so I am not sure of the make / model, just that it was slim, chrome, with gold trim.

[AZBennett]

Peaky Blinders, season 1, episode 6, Cillian Murphy's character uses what looks like an old BCHR FP to write a letter to his love interest. In a prior episode he pulls oit a pen from his waistcoat to give to Sam Neill but it never gets used. It looked somewhat like a another old BCHR or BHR pen.

[Jbloodwo]

From the documentary "The Roosevelts: an intimate history" there is a picture of US president Woodrow Wilson using a fountain pen:

 

 

Wilson was president from 1913 to 1921 when most people would have used a dip pen. This FP could be a Waterman perhaps?

or could it be a Parker. hard to tell when i zoom if the tip of the clip is arrewhead or a ball.

[Ernst Bitterman]

From the documentary "The Roosevelts: an intimate history" there is a picture of US president Woodrow Wilson using a fountain pen:

 

{great big picture you've already seen}

 

Wilson was president from 1913 to 1921 when most people would have used a dip pen. This FP could be a Waterman perhaps?

 

 

or could it be a Parker. hard to tell when i zoom if the tip of the clip is arrewhead or a ball.

 

I'm inclined to say Sheaffer. A Parker of this era would have a ball-ended clip, but it would also have a ring mount, at the top of the cap. The clip could be Waterman or Sheaffer, since it's hard to say if there's rivets or not, but the shape of the section moves me toward Sheaffer-- it's a little stockier and looks to have a bit of a shoulder.

Edited October 29, 2014 by Ernst Bitterman

[Behike54]

Montblanc in "John Wick," but it was a roller or bp.

 

Hey, that's how it goes sometimes.

[carlos.q]

 

I'm inclined to say Sheaffer. A Parker of this era would have a ball-ended clip, but it would also have a ring mount, at the top of the cap. The clip could be Waterman or Sheaffer, since it's hard to say if there's rivets or not, but the shape of the section moves me toward Sheaffer-- it's a little stockier and looks to have a bit of a shoulder.

 

This is a closeup picture I took. Maybe it'll help to identify this "presidential" pen:

 

[carlos.q]

From the 1958 movie "The Young Lions", Christian Diestl (Marlon Brando) writes a farewell note to his love:

 

 

Hard to tell what pen this is. But if there was a ever such a pen as a mottled Rouge-et-Noir lever fill with a Pelikan clip this would be it.

[oregano]

Just spotted a Pelikan M600 or M800 (green) in Godard's new film, Au Revoir au langage. There's a close-up of someone dipping the pen

in water and writing with a flexible nib a page of nice, broad cursive handwriting.

Imagine my surprise - and joy--in seeing that unexpectedly!

[jcastro1975]

Le petit soldat (1963), Anna Karina seems to be holding a Parker 51.

[Tasmith]

Janet Leigh signing the register of the Bates Motel in Psycho with what looks like a desk dip pen.