Old Cameras in Old Movies

[Diapositivo]

Contax IIIa

"Femina Ridens" Italy , 1969

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The actress is the German actress Dagmar Lassander. Very attractive.
In this sequence with Philippe Leroy, not only she carries the Contax, but she appears to run much longer ;-)



Music by Stelvio Cipriani

 

[AgX]

The car is german too. Goes further than other cars...

 

[Theo Sulphate]

The actress is the German actress Dagmar Lassander. Very attractive.
In this sequence with Philippe Leroy, not only she carries the Contax, but she appears to run much longer ;-)
...

She is attractive - and has a Contax. Perfect.

The car is german too. Goes further than other cars...

Amphicar 770 - they appear in all the big collector-car auctions (Barrett-Jackson etc.).

AgX - you watch a lot of movies

 

[abruzzi]

A Hasselblad of some kind or another in the opening credits of "A Zed and Two Naughts" by Peter Greenaway (jump to 1:13):

 

[AgX]

Hasselblad 500C

 

[abruzzi]

Apparently in Arizona, police mugshots are taken with a 8x10 field cameras:



Edit: after bringing Jr. home (i.e. kidnapping him) they “preserve the moment in pictures” with a Nikon L35AF

 

[AgX]

"Istanbul Masche" (The Istanbul Ploy) GDR tv espionage movie , 1971


Setting: bulgarian secret police


Pentacon "Pentacon" (on copy stand w. prism finder)




Pentacon Praktica Nova w. Domiplan and Elgawa Minilux

 

[Kodachromeguy]

Has anyone mentioned 007 - James Bond - yet? Recall in From Russia with Love, 007 interviews the lovely Tatiana Romanova on a Bosporus ferry boat and tells her to speak into the Rolleiflex. Of course, it conceals a tape recorder. No photos of the lovely Tatiana that afternoon.

 

[Shootar401]

Yup. Some people are just ignorant.

 

[GRHazelton]

Has anyone mentioned 007 - James Bond - yet? Recall in From Russia with Love, 007 interviews the lovely Tatiana Romanova on a Bosporus ferry boat and tells her to speak into the Rolleiflex. Of course, it conceals a tape recorder. No photos of the lovely Tatiana that afternoon.

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Ummm.....Bond's "trigger" finger isn't on the shutter release. Certainly no pix of Tatiana that way!

 

[trondsi]

Has anyone mentioned 007 - James Bond - yet? Recall in From Russia with Love, 007 interviews the lovely Tatiana Romanova on a Bosporus ferry boat and tells her to speak into the Rolleiflex. Of course, it conceals a tape recorder. No photos of the lovely Tatiana that afternoon.

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For some reason, I also noticed the spy girl watching Bond in Dr. No, at the airport, is holding an old press camera. Maybe a Crown Graphic? Those are popular in films, perhaps because they look so big and important, and even used way after their time, I think I saw them in the Twin Peaks tv series too.

She's at 27:18

 

[AgX]

What is she doing ??
After seemingly taking the just ignited lamp out of the reflector and letting it fall (into her camera bag?) she takes that hand with a bulb to her mouth, the bulb even into her mouth and then to the reflector.
As if ripping something off with her teeth...

 

[Sirius Glass]

What is she doing ??
After seemingly taking the just ignited lamp out of the reflector and letting it fall (into her camera bag?) she takes that hand with a bulb to her mouth, the bulb even into her mouth and then to the reflector.
As if ripping something off with her teeth...

It was common to lick the end of the flashbulb to enhance the current flow by using saliva to reduce the resistance.

 

[Kino]

What is she doing ??
After seemingly taking the just ignited lamp out of the reflector and letting it fall (into her camera bag?) she takes that hand with a bulb to her mouth, the bulb even into her mouth and then to the reflector.
As if ripping something off with her teeth...

I can see you've not dealt with many press cameras or old press photographers!

 

[AgX]

I can see you've not dealt with many press cameras or old press photographers!

You overlook that Germany was much more modern camerawise.


There were not even Graflexes in Germany. I never came a single sample across.

In the 30s in Germany 35mm and MF cameras gained ground for press photography, partially enforced by the government. In the 50s Linhof tried to establish their cameras for press use, especially for colour front pages. But then there were of course electronic flashlights...


And even amongst bulb flash users that licking likely was just an american thing.

 

[AgX]

Unidentified camera

"Violette Noziere" France , 1977 (based on a true murder case)

Time Setting: France 1934

Camera used for police scene-photography

 

[Helios 1984]

Mona Lisa Vito (Marisa Tomei) with her pink Kodak Disk 3600 in “My Cousin Vinny”. A dream of a woman.

 

[AgX]

I did not even know there was a pink version. Likely never on sale here. The black 3600 version has a swing-off cover which the pink version has not.

 

[Helios 1984]

Danny Boy (Eric Stoltz) with his Kodak Portrait Brownie No.2 from the movie "Memphis Belle"

 

[abruzzi]

I just watched “Kind Hearts and Coronets” about a young man whose mother was kicked out a noble family for marrying beneath her, who resolves to return to the top of the family and become duke, by murdering the 9 people ahead of him in succession (all the people ahead of him are played by Alec Guinness.)

One of the victims is a photographer (early 20th century) and there is whole long scene where they meet, discuss cameras, including the “Thornton Pickard” he is using (according to google, Thornton Pickard was a camera manufacturer, but I can’t tell if the prop was the right camera. A portion of that scene is on YouTube:

 

[Theo Sulphate]

... who resolves to return to the top of the family and become duke, by murdering the 9 people ahead of him in succession...

That certainly won't seem suspicious.

... there is whole long scene where they meet, discuss cameras ... A portion of that scene is on YouTube...

It seems he asks "Is that a Hasselblad?", right?

 

[removed account4]

recent health insurance company ad has a guy with a 1970s era 35mm slr, haven't seen anything else in a while

 

[abruzzi]

That certainly won't seem suspicious.

It seems he asks "Is that a Hasselblad?", right?

It very much predates that, made in 1949 and takes place in in the early 1900's. In the darkroom scene the Alec Guinness character even talks about shooting a dozen half plates.

The film is actually very funny. It was from Ealing Studios who also did The Ladykillers and Lavender Hill Mob.

 

[AgX]

Danny Boy (Eric Stoltz) with his Kodak Portrait Brownie No.2 from the movie "Memphis Belle"

I do not know the movie, but that guy is taking a photograph of the atomic mushroom by box-camera?

 

[GRHazelton]

I do not know the movie, but that guy is taking a photograph of the atomic mushroom by box-camera?

Ummmm...... The "Memphis Belle" was a B 17. The Hiroshima bomb was delivered by a B 29, named "Enola Gay," after IICR the pilot's mother.