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Well, I understand "Signet Shephard".
But that makes no one wiser...

The nearest I get would be an Ensign focal plane camera.



By they way, the movie is:
"Kind Hearts and Coronets" comedy , UK , 1949
 
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Well, I understand "Signet Shephard".
But that makes no one wiser...
The nearest I get would be an Ensign focal plane camera.

Thanks "shephard" makes sense....just found the script: it reads as follows:
"Excuse me.
Isn't that a Thornton Pickard?
Yes. Are you a photographer?
Dabble in it.
Got a Sanger Shepherd.
- A Sanger Shepherd?
- Nice little camera.
Focal plane shutter,
rapid rectilinear and all that."

Read more: https://www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/movie_script.php?movie=kind-hearts-and-coronets

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanger_Shepherd
 

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I did not know there were movie scripts online.
Good find anyway.

Now, if anyone knows which model is hinted at....
 

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Anybody ever saw a film casette labeled FILM?

Maybe from the same people that make BEER

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I already understood: "Sanger". But on my question above which model it might be, still nobody replied...

Sanger Shepherd are known for making specialist cameras, though in that movie scene there is no hint at such specialism.
 

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Not that much standard. There were several models of these cameras. Miethe was the first to introduce such. You cannot just slide the plate-holder, it must be slided in intervalls, then as fast as possible, with the shutter closing inbetween. Unless you are sure of completely static subjects (no moving leaves, clouds etc.)

If that dialogue was not completely made up, and the naming of those two manufacturers indicates that it was not, there must have been at least one "normal" model.

However my own archive only reveals three models:
-) 3-colour
-) 3-colour stereo
-) monochrome stereo


But now I have to go back to the cinema...
 

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Not an old movie but an example of failure to conduct due diligence and research.During the credits of "THE PHOTOGRAPHER OF MATHAUSEN" displayed was a strip of negatives clearly marked KODAK TRI-X. As far as I know TRI-X was created in the 1950's.
 

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Similar for the artwork around the movie: fantasy film strips
 

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A Rarity:

Facial Composite Projector from IOR


"Profession: Investigator" crime movie , USSR , 1982

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In the background a classic wooden portrait camera and a sliding back camera.

I already hinted at IOR as setting for another movie.
 

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Did you know that enlargers were once used as top-secret bomb sights in WWII?



Sorry for the slightly off-topic-ness. :smile:
 

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I seem to recall reading that the Norden bomb sight was ultra Top Secret, so no pictures of it would have been available. Why not use a pic of an Omega enlarger since the real thing wasn't available..
 

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Did you know that enlargers were once used as top-secret bomb sights in WWII?



Sorry for the slightly off-topic-ness. :smile:


Split grade bombing? Would a cold light help?
 

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Before seeing the movie Operation Finale - good film, BTW - we saw a trailer for Welcome to Marwen, in which the protagonist uses an Asahi Pentax film camera. Sorry, couldn't tell which model. Here's a link to the trailer, if anyone's interested:


Was it determined what Rollei was in Operation Finale? I watched it last night and saw the Rollei and the roll of 120 film being passed around. Just curious.

I agree--good movie.
 

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Lightmeter (very similar to Porst CDS No. 200662)

Used to figurate as "Manchaser". A device by which women can chase a certain man by his specific odour at distances up to 15km ...

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"Die Mädchen aus dem Weltraum" (The Girls from Outer Space) episode 2 , west-german tv Sci-Fi series from 1977

About a planet reigned by women as they all are superior over men and supress them. The girls visit Planet Earth...
 
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Just saw Ford Vs Ferrari and there were plenty of film cameras though I wasn't paying much attention to what type they were.
 

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black Minox C w. black chain


"Anruf aus der Zone" (Call from the GDR) , episode from a west-german TV spy-series , 1967
Minox stated as Stasi property

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Unidentified cine camera and spotmeter

"Co je Vám, doctore?" drama , CSSR , 1984

My first thought was that of a siviet Kiron, but so far I could not find tghis model at all...
Anyone to make me wiser?



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