Fountain Pens In Movies And Tv

[Cepasaccus]

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 :

 

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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 ?

 

Could be a full silver overlay Mabie Todd & Bard/Co. The Swan pen with over/under feed.

[Cepasaccus]

The pen has indeed an over/under feed. Though the grip section does not look like a Swan to me. Maybe it is a De La Rue Onoto plunger filler.

[Jbloodwo]

Although not really any way to get screen shots yet. There are lots of juicy fountain pen shots in the imitation game. The only one I am close to thinking I saw was am MB in the head masters office during a flashback shot.

[carlos.q]

There is a very prominent shot of a gold nibbed pen in The King's Speech, when the ailing George V, just before his death, signs a document giving authority to Prince Edward, who briefly succeeded him before his own abdication. I don't know enough to identify it; perhaps someone else could.

 

This is the screenshot of that scene. Onoto perhaps?

 

[Freddy]

 

This is the screenshot of that scene. Onoto perhaps?

 

https://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/index.php/topic/19810-penspotting/?p=1943673

 

Sheaffer Connaisseur {Grand?} Gold Plated....

 

Fred

send happiness....write that letter today........

[theexpanciluser]

I watched a documentary, where the narrator was using a Montblanc to write with. It seems like most pens on tv today are montblancs. There is also a USA donald duck ww2 cartoon, where donald duck uses to sign his taxes with the pen xD.

[Freddy]

I watched a documentary, where the narrator was using a Montblanc to write with. It seems like most pens on tv today are montblancs. There is also a USA donald duck ww2 cartoon, where donald duck uses to sign his taxes with the pen xD.

Pray tell, which documentary. I'm sure a lot of folks would like to know.

 

Fred

good nite everybody..

[pdc13]

If you count the 2015 Golden Globes red carpet as TV, then add Helen Mirren with a blue fountain pen pinned to her dress in support of free speech in reference to the Charlie Hebdo attack.

 

http://www.harpersbazaar.com.br/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/helen-mirren-jesuis-charlie-golden-globes.jpg

 

By the way, besides sponsoring the pre-Golden Globes celebrity gift lounge, Pilot will be gifting each attendee with a Vanishing Point fountain pen and a FriXion Clicker.

 

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/pilot-pen-celebrates-timeless-art-of-self-expression-300016490.html

Edited January 12, 2015 by pdc13

[inkstainedruth]

If you count the 2015 Golden Globes red carpet as TV, then add Helen Mirren with a blue fountain pen pinned to her dress in support of free speech in reference to the Charlie Hebdo attack.

 

http://www.harpersbazaar.com.br/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/helen-mirren-jesuis-charlie-golden-globes.jpg

 

By the way, besides sponsoring the pre-Golden Globes celebrity gift lounge, Pilot will be gifting each attendee with a Vanishing Point fountain pen and a FriXion Clicker.

 

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/pilot-pen-celebrates-timeless-art-of-self-expression-300016490.html

Cool!

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[usk15]

House of Games: I believe this is a WATERMAN LE MAN 100 BLACK FOUNTAIN PEN, but not 100% sure.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093223/?ref_=nv_sr_1

 

http://i60.tinypic.com/8wf487.jpg

[jjlax10]

Although not really any way to get screen shots yet. There are lots of juicy fountain pen shots in the imitation game. The only one I am close to thinking I saw was am MB in the head masters office during a flashback shot.

 

There were a number of pens. John Cairncross had a Parker Duofold, I believe Turing himself used an Onoto or Conway Stewart. The police detective looked like he had a hooded nib pen.

 

Apparently Alan Turing invented his own filling system as a young man. His biography on which the movie is based discusses it briefly, and can be viewed on Google Books.

[oregano]

As a Conway Stewart fan, I was positively psyched to see a Conway Stewart 60 executive in black (I think) on 'Granchester' ep 1 (Masterpiece Mystery) this week. Fits perfectly with the time and place of the show, kudos to the propmaster!

[Mr. Pink]

House of Games: I believe this is a WATERMAN LE MAN 100 BLACK FOUNTAIN PEN, but not 100% sure.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093223/?ref_=nv_sr_1

 

http://i60.tinypic.com/8wf487.jpg

It is. Either that, or a perfect fake

[CAG_1787]

Good grief - Helen Mirren is such a stunning, classy lady (and took several steps if her pen combines a fountain pen interest with a defense of free speech).

[inkstainedruth]

Not sure this has been noted already (I really don't want to scrolling through 18 pages of posts), but in the beginning of the Doctor Who episode "The Idiot's Lantern", Magpie is trying to balance his books with the TV on in the background. He has some sort of long slim black pen, posted, with a gold nib, that he's writing with. Couldn't get a good look at it, but it's definitely not a BP. In theory, the episode is set in London, 1953 (but I don't suppose that the prop people would get that detailed, on the grounds that only nerds like us would even notice.

Anyone else see that episode recently, and can identify the pen being used?

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[Monophoto]

The principle actor in an Edward Jones commercial currently airing on US TV is writing with a fountain pen.

[Water Ouzel]

A current Korean TV series, "Pinocchio", has the male lead receiving a fountain pen from his long-separated brother about two thirds of the way through the series. It's a Montblanc, looks like a 146.

 

He (a news reporter) uses it in subsequent episodes for taking notes in office and in the field.

[usk15]

DAVID OSCARSON: Pierrot & Pierrette Limited Edition Fountain Pen in Calvary (2014)

 

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[FOUR X FOUR]

Five minutes ago. Commercial on BBC AMERICA, for Edward Jones retirement. The fountain pen was black. The nib was a dark yellow. Must've been gold plated. No idea what pen it was

[ISW_Kaputnik]

No pictures, I'm afraid, but a movie I saw last night had an interesting juxtaposition of old and new. The movie was Carlton-Browne of the F.O. (original title The Man in the Cocked Hat) from 1959, starring Terry Thomas, with Peter Sellers in a supporting role. In one scene, we see Carlton-Browne, a British diplomat, writing a letter to his superior with a fountain pen. Immediately afterward, we see the superior reacting to the letter, and dictating a reply to his secretary, who clicks an obvious ballpoint to take notes.