Fountain Pens In Movies And Tv

[ThegreatandpowerfullR]

 

The nib looks like it has the profile of a Carene or 95s, but no metal like the Carene & entirely the wrong body for a 95s. I would bet it's been shopped to avoid a recognizeable brand like everything else in the photos.

The weird thing is that the nib is really small and doesn't look at all like any other fountain pen I've seen, even the smallest nibs are bigger than that and are more inside the section.

[NinthSphere]

The weird thing is that the nib is really small and doesn't look at all like any other fountain pen I've seen, even the smallest nibs are bigger than that and are more inside the section.

 

The body flows down towards the nib in the back. I don't have a Carene to compare to, but the 95s looks similar when viewed from the left rear. It's not a normal nib, it's an inlaid nib.

 

edit: I'm sticking this here, so the pen in question is more accessible.

 

http://fc07.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2014/334/5/4/54779dd58f742b9727fb6ba051691b7a-d8890o2.png

Edited November 30, 2014 by NinthSphere

[nomad_traveller]

Thank you kindly for the several replies, Ernst, Paloma (lovely forum handle - or rather, 'dovely' nom de plume, to better suit the site), and Carlos. Not only are they appreciated, they tell me this is a friendly and knowledgeable community (always nice to come across one of those, reinforces my hope for humankind ;~).

 

 

 

Is that not one of those "smart" pens that tracks motion to record what you write? It's a tech I'm indifferent to, so I haven't a clear mnemonic pathway to the name, but the shape is very familiar.

 

Well, I do not own any of those either, atm, but I am not wholly indifferent to them myself - simply because they have their uses (secretive spying? subterfuge graphomania? invisible penmanship?). Your reply reminded me of that, and I now intend to look into it, so I would like to thank you for replying despite your lack of interest in that particular technology.

 

 

Looks like the Aurora Thesi pen too, but that's a ballpoint and the one pictured is a fountain pen, no? Here's a link to the Thesi pen: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Aurora-Thesi-eco-steel-ballpoint-pen-Mint-/321580330689?pt=AU_PensWritingItems&hash=item4adfae6ec1

 

I can tell with certainty it's not the pen in question (the Thesi is a flat, round-edge oblong shape in cross-section, whereas the featured one has a distinct rounded-edge triangular cross-section, where the middle finger is meant to support the flat furthest from the off-centre point from below, while the thumb and index rest against the two flats adjacent to it), but certainly shares design elements, and although a ballpoint pen indeed, since I do use those as well, I am also interested - mainly because it is a perfect example of the great Italian design of 'elegant simplicity,'

 

Thank you for leading me to it - your mention of the Thesi also lead my to Aurora's fountain pen line, the Hastil - which happens to have a brilliant review by one of your fellow forum member on this very site. Double my thanks.

 

 

Looks like a Lamy Dialog ballpoint pen.

 

Uncanny, and may I say 'bingo!' (Never played, but often heard that expression without ever using it, felt like doing so on this occasion, if only because I am so surprised to find the answer. I really didn't think a correct identification would be posted so soon based on those less-than-perfect images.)

 

Spot on, then: that is the pen, I just looked it up. True, another ballpoint, but your help's not in vain, as I am interested all the same. Moreover, Lamy have an attractive fountain pen in the Dialog line, and several other lines besides.

 

Giddy great thanks - I love the look of some of these Lamy pens (and we shall see whether their feel, performance, and reliability matches - might scour the forum for opinions at a later time).

 

Thanks to all - for the replies, for sharing your knowledge, and for the friendly atmosphere round here.

Edited December 3, 2014 by nomad_traveller

[Sandy Fry]

On Monday nights episode of "Forever" the victim was killed by being stabbed in the neck with a Lanier Fountain Pen!

 

David

[SockAddict]

On Monday nights episode of "Forever" the victim was killed by being stabbed in the neck with a Lanier Fountain Pen!

 

David

 

Ack! I started a new thread asking if anyone had seen this episode, without seeing that you'd already commented about it here. Whoops.

[jameswatts]

Heh, I nearly (and mistakenly) took that to be a reply... However, this pen's not quite so, erm, unfriendly. I, at least, only intend to use ink, not acid. ;D (Kidding aside, I do recall the acid-squirting pen you mention.)

 

Here's another shot - I am curious about it, so if anyone does recognise it, even vaguely, and deems it worthy of a reply, it would be much appreciated.

 

~a slightly different pen-2b.PNG

Very definitely a Lamy Dialogue 1.

[inkeverywhere]

Watching a show on pay TV here in Australia called Great British Menu, (a food banquet menu competition) where chef's menus are judged.

 

One of the judges, I think his name is Matthew Forte, is shown writing his notes on a particular meal using a fountain pen, actually shows the ink being laid down on his notebook. It is a very short clip but it appeared to be perhaps a sterling silver FP the type I did not have time to identify.

 

Since reading this thread it is the first time I have seen a FP on TV or in a film.

 

 

Greg

[______Zaphod_Beeblebrox]

I just saw the episode of agents of shield with the "Waterfield" fountain pen, not to bring up stuff already talked about.

 

My question is, if he Agent Colson cannot afford a Fountain pen on a government salary, how can he afford a late fifties early sixties corvette?

[inkstainedruth]

I just saw the episode of agents of shield with the "Waterfield" fountain pen, not to bring up stuff already talked about.

 

My question is, if he Agent Colson cannot afford a Fountain pen on a government salary, how can he afford a late fifties early sixties corvette?

Ha. Maybe Agent Coulson restored the car himself. (I used to work with a guy who restored a '62 Corvette). Maybe his salary includes all the nifty Shield "toys", like the plane -- although the plane could also be a Stark Industries subsidy model.

Or maybe it was just that the "Waterfield" was priced like a custom Nakaya. Or a Chaos pen....

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[Guernseytim]

Watching a show on pay TV here in Australia called Great British Menu, (a food banquet menu competition) where chef's menus are judged.

 

One of the judges, I think his name is Matthew Forte, is shown writing his notes on a particular meal using a fountain pen, actually shows the ink being laid down on his notebook. It is a very short clip but it appeared to be perhaps a sterling silver FP the type I did not have time to identify.

 

Since reading this thread it is the first time I have seen a FP on TV or in a film.

 

 

Greg

One of my favourite TV shows. His name is Matthew Fort

 

ITa not on TV here at the minute but I'll keep my eyes peeled

[______Zaphod_Beeblebrox]

Ha. Maybe Agent Coulson restored the car himself. (I used to work with a guy who restored a '62 Corvette). Maybe his salary includes all the nifty Shield "toys", like the plane -- although the plane could also be a Stark Industries subsidy model.

Or maybe it was just that the "Waterfield" was priced like a custom Nakaya. Or a Chaos pen....

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

You basically are making my point, just because you have a certain salary does not mean you cannot have certain things. It's all where you send your money.

[Blade Runner]

In"A Christmas Memory" the character of Sook Faulk portrayed by the great Geraldine Page, addresses her packages of fruitcakes with a fountain pen.

 

P.S. The pen isn't mentioned in the original Capote short story.

Edited December 7, 2014 by Blade Runner

[mknoblauch]

In "Back to the Future" (1985), while in 1955 Marty writes a letter to Doc Brown warning him of the future terrorist attack in the mall parking lot. It appears he is using a red Esterbrook.

[carlos.q]

Ok, this is one for the experts: In the 1945 movie "Objective, Burma!", starring Errol Flynn, the actor Henry Hull plays an older journalist that joins a group of paratroopers whose mission is to blow up an enemy radar station. During the trek, Hull documents the men's stories using what seems to be a Wahl Eversharp Skyline pencil. But, from what little I know, the Skyline pencils of the time did not have a domed cap like this one. Only Skyline fountain pens had this domed cap. Any ideas?

 

[NinthSphere]

It's hard to tell from that angle, but it looks to me like it still has a step up to the button, not the full dome like the pens.

 

http://www.vintagepens.com/images/cat/11345.jpg

[Freddy]

Ok, this is one for the experts: In the 1945 movie "Objective, Burma!", starring Errol Flynn, the actor Henry Hull plays an older journalist that joins a group of paratroopers whose mission is to blow up an enemy radar station. During the trek, Hull documents the men's stories using what seems to be a Wahl Eversharp Skyline pencil. But, from what little I know, the Skyline pencils of the time did not have a domed cap like this one. Only Skyline fountain pens had this domed cap. Any ideas?

 

 

 

 

It is a Eversharp Skyline Ballpoint..appropriate for the time and environment.....

 

The mp posted above off of David Nishimura's site a uncommon

pencil with stainless steel hardware.......

http://www.vintagepens.com/catill_150to250.shtml

 

Fred

Beckett to a French journalist..who had asked if he was English....

Replied..'Au contraire.'

[carlos.q]

It is a Eversharp Skyline Ballpoint..appropriate for the time and environment.....

 

The mp posted above off of David Nishimura's site a uncommon

pencil with stainless steel hardware.......

http://www.vintagepens.com/catill_150to250.shtml

 

Fred

 

Nice try! But... According to this account the Eversharp Skyline ballpoint went to market after october 1945:

http://www.penhero.com/PenGallery/Eversharp/EversharpCABallpoint.htm

However "Objective, Burma!" was released on February 17, 1945. It would have been impossible for a journalist (or an actor playing one) to use a ballpoint that hadn't gone to market. So the mystery continues...

Edited December 19, 2014 by carlos.q

[NinthSphere]

The pencil I posted is dated '41.

[welch]

In "It's a Wonderful Life", Mr. Potter has an Eversharp Skyline on his desk as he plots evil against Jimmy Stewart and the town. Just saw the movie on "the big screen" at the New York Historical Society. The pen is just at the bottom of the screen...would be hard to spot on TV.

[Mr. JW]

I was watching "A Christmas Story" yesterday and, in the scene where Ralphie gets his BB gun, there is a desk pen (can't tell what type) and a bottle of ink (appears to be Sheaffer Skrip) on the desk behind which the present was hidden.