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Old Cameras in Old Movies

"Delisin" comedy around a photographer , Turkey 1975


(tinkered) camera in village photo studio (please identify !)





Rolleiflex




Zeiss Ikon Contax S with Metz 402 flash
 
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Robot I

"Über ganz Spanien wolkenloser Himmel" (Over all Spain clear Sky) TV political spy series , GDR , 1971

Setting: Spain in early summer 1936

The Robot is mounted with a clamp at a drawer facing downwards for photographing documents



surprisingly they got the aspect ratio right on the resp. film



from same episode: different film strips on a hanger, which does not fit the period
 
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Kiev Vega (1959) model from 1962 with taped brand

"Über ganz Spanien wolkenloser Himmel" (Over all Spain clear Sky) TV political spy series , GDR , 1971

Setting: Spain in early summer 1936

photographing same documents as above
 
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Jeff Daniels - The House on Carroll Street (1988)


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Okay! A Leica screw mount with a reflex housing, and a Zenza Bronica, perhaps a S2 or S2a? Pretty short lens on the Bronny for clandestine work... Not to mention a shutter racket to wake the dead! Ask me how I know!
 
Not exactly old, but I was rewatching the HBO TV show “The Wire”. And the police servelience from the rooftops was using a Nikon F2.

I also rewatched “The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai across the 8th Dimension” and there was a Nikon of some sort in the operating room scene in the beginning, with one of those big medical lenses with a built in ring light.

(Sorry, no easy way for me to snap screenshots.)
 
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Okay! A Leica screw mount with a reflex housing, and a Zenza Bronica, perhaps a S2 or S2a? Pretty short lens on the Bronny for clandestine work... Not to mention a shutter racket to wake the dead! Ask me how I know!
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So the loud shutter sound was real? hahah
 
la bamba ( movie about ricardo valenzuela[ richie valens] )
when he comes home for christmas lots of movie cameras, and still cameras
and using a table lamp out the top as a light box. hard to believe he was 17
buddy holly 22 and the big bopper was 29 when their plane crashed.
 
Minox A

"Rommel ruft Kairo" (Cairo, Rommel calling) spy-movie , West-Germany , 1958

Location: Cairo 1942, german spy in british uniform
 
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Minox A

"Rommel ruft Kairo" (Cairo, Rommel calling) spy-movie , West-Germany , 1958

Location: Cairo 1942, german spy in british uniform
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The photo is not very clear, but possibly I see the meter-needle window at the top of the camera, making it a Minox B, such as here:

 
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You made a good point, as an opened A and a closed B model are most hardly to differenciate. As both only show one big window.
The most easiest mark would be a black visual impression from the meter scale window. With a lot of goodwill such could be guessed at a single franme in this scene.
But I found a second scene where the model B can clearly be identified:



However the Minox is quite common at spy movies and I even hesitated to hint at all. as I rather like show other, uncommon or misplaced cameras.
 
fake small-gauge cine camera , in "spacy" style


"Werkstatt Zukunft II" (Lab Future II) sci-fi settled shortfilm on the meaning of the word "beautiful" GDR , 1972

some parabolic parts, resembling a hairdryer, a lens, a lens shade, on top a ball-head with light-meter mounted on it

 


For secrecy, she is transmitting her photos on an amateur radio microwave band. Very clever.
 
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Well seen! But wrongly concluded...

The microwave antenna makes part of the chairs of a panel. Though it is not related for what use. In any case when a panel member has a movie of his srceened the antenna is rotating. Likely a kind of early bluetooth...



 
Meopta Opemus 3 6x6 enlarger



"Gefährliche Freundschaft" (Dangerous Friendship) episode from GDR TV crime series 1982

 
Steineck ABC

Ever seen on screen before??


"Epilog - Das Geheimnis der Orplid" (Epilogue-The Orplid secret) crime movie , West-Germany 1950

 
I am clueless... after a lot of searching

Although this enlarger is very peculiar due to its double column.


"Die Störenfriede" (The Troublemakers) children movie , GDR , 1952

 
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I am clueless... after a lot of searching

Although this enlarger is very peculiar due to its double column.
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It is similar to some Praxidos models, but I cannot find it either.
 
Canon AF35M

"Krecek v nocni kosili" (Hamster in a nightgown) children tv movie , CSSR , 1988

 
Sitting here watching Mysteries at the Museum, segment on Matthew Brady doing Abe Lincolns portrait. They have the actor using a tiny camera on top of a cabinet with no ground glass on the back. Producers were clueless!
 
I'm always amused to hear flashbulbs going off. Back in the day I used hundreds of flashbulbs - couldn't afford an electronic flash - and the only sounds they ever made was the occasional despairing crinkly sound, much like crumpling cellophane. .
 
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I'm always amused to hear flashbulbs going off. Back in the day I used hundreds of flashbulbs - couldn't afford an electronic flash - and the only sounds they ever made was the occasional despairing crinkly sound, much like crumpling cellophane. .
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I loved the crinkle sound and the slight odor. I always think of Christmas, my Dad would shoot Kodachrome slides, Argus C3. I found his Ricoh folding flash holder the other day. I remember as a kid putting the test lamp in to check the battery.. 25B flashbulbs. A silver dime a piece.

I still have all those perfect slides. I made some really nice Cibachrome prints.
 
Praktisix with prism finder and unidentified flash unit

"Der Frühling braucht Zeit" (Spring needs time) , GDR , 1965



 
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