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Old Cameras in Old Movies

AgX said:
I do not know the movie, but that guy is taking a photograph of the atomic mushroom by box-camera?
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They’re on a bombing mission, and he is taking a photograph of another plane flying in the same formation. He is seen in many scenes with this camera.
 
Anna is a recent film that has some nice old cameras. I noticed a Mamiya RB67, a Hasselblad, and an old Nikon SLR.
 
Simple type 110 camera

"Inspector Klefisch - Ein Fall für Onkel" episode from a crime series , West-Germany ,1990

A long retired criminal investigator ("Uncle") chimes in a case of his fomer collegues. In this scene using such primitive camera and a screwdriver for scaling to document a tire track for later car assessment.




 
AgX said:
I do not know the movie, but that guy is taking a photograph of the atomic mushroom by box-camera?
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As I remember from the documentary movie "Memphis Belle" it was about a B-17 (probably an "F" model) and its bombing missions over Europe using conventional bombs. The atomic weapon was dropped by a B-29 in the Pacific War with Japan. The B-29 was called the Enola Gay. I am probably wrong but I don't think the B-29s were ever used over Europe. They were designed for the "Pacific War".......Regards!
 
Watching Season 3 of the Netflix series “Stranger Things” which is set in the 80s. The character who is an intern newspaper photographer is taking photos of what they think is a rabid rat using a Pentax ME Super. I think they got it period-correct.
 
Not an old movie, but an old camera. Last night, I watched the 2017 movie, curiously named Bokeh in which a Rolleiflex 3.5 -- probably an automat -- had a starring role. I write "curiously" because I couldn't find one thing in the movie that was representative of the word 'bokeh.' The movie was totally uninspiring, but at least the Rolleiflex was used throughout.
 
Not an old movie but I enjoyed watching a tourist drop his Leica rangefinder into a Venetian canal in the new Spider-man: Far From Home movie.
 
The darkroom at the newspaper was well done. Omega enlarger, Kindermann developing tanks. In the background I saw what looked like modern Kodak color chemistry, looked like 2.5 L bottles of color fixer? ? I couldn't figure it out for sure. I think that Kodak used similar bottles. I think that's about the best "TV Show " I've seen, period. So much fun.
 
Last night I watched "Punney Swope" a film from maybe 50 years ago. A comedy, it had a commercial photographer , Mark Focus, trying to get work from an ad agency. He was wearing several cameras around his neck while showing his book. One was a speed graphic on a strap. The dialog was like ..." Mark Focus. I did this for GE, this for Maybeline,
Swope: I get it, you're the best in the business
Focus: I can do it for $1200
They negotiate and it gets to
Focus: I'll do it for free, I need the work
Swope: I can get anyone for nothing"
 
Maybe we should install that scene at Photrio. As warning.
 
MattKing said:
In case you are looking for this, I believe the title is "Putney Swope".
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Correct. Operator malfunction on both typing and proof reading. It will probably happen again
 
Sawyer's AH 500 slide projector

"Le Depart" Belgium 1967

A girl on the run schlepps that projector with her in her suitcase with a slideshow of her life...

I was surprised to see that projector, which I did not even hear about so far, in a belgian movie. How come? GAF had a production facility in Belgium and by this that projector seemingly was on the belgian (and maybe french) market.

 
Praktika B 200 finder image

in episode "Hubertusjagd" of the TV crime series "Der Staatsanwalt hat das Wort" , GDR , 1985

 
Spacecraft for lunar surveying including tv-, cine- and still-cameras as designed by stage builders

"Way to the Stars" , educational movie , USSR , 1957


A sphere is covered with lenses of all kinds...











And here a lens incorporated in spacestation tv-sets, seemingly already enabling scyping:

 
AgX said:
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"Way to the Stars" , educational movie , USSR , 1957
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The color in that film is very appealing to me. I wonder which film was used?

Is the film actually "Дорога к звёздам" ("Road to the stars")? Even so, I cannot find any details about the film stock.
 
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As far as I remember it was not usual with soviet movies to indicate the filmstock.


The movie is worthwhile watching as it yields a history of space travel science, basics of space physics and a glimpse of future developments as living and working in space stations.

A german HD version:
https://bit.ly/2ONSU4w
 
AgX said:
As far as I remember it was not usual with soviet movies to indicate the filmstock.
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Here a soviet movie from 1983 where it says:

 
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In this thread we repeatedly had through-the-finders scenes. From made-up finders, to correct finders but not fitting the camera to everything right.
 
Something a little more recent and ever so slightly off topic, the new-ish Giorgio Armand commercial is filmed predominantly in a darkroom (I could only find the extended version online that has more footage filmed elsewhere). At any rate:


... And, yes, the whole white light, red light, no light has been mentioned already in the YouTube comment section.
 
-) Technika 6x9 RF

-) Rolleiflex

-) Braun F80 flash (bracket mounted at 45° (seemingly to gain left-hand space))

-) Linhof Tripod Combi-Amateur model XI

-) Linhof Panorama ballhead

"Rebellion der Verlorenen" tv-movie , West-Germany , 1969
 
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