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Old Cameras in Old Movies

I have been googling this but no identical camera showed up. I'm puzzled about this camera.
 
AgX said:
I do not know any type 110 camera with any resemblance, so I rather would stick to 16mm. And your hint at Yashica was good.

I am sure it is a Yashica Atoron.
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Ah, in that case, it's not 16 mm, those used Minox film.
 
A great find, we did not have such scale thing before, if I remember well.
 
BobD said:


Land of the Giants episode with Kodak Chevron.
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Ha, that episode was on last Saturday night (well, very early Sunday morning - I don't consider it the next day until I wake up) on MeTV. I'm not a fan of the show, though, I was just flipping channels before going to bed.
 
Pentax Spotmatic (was there an earlier Pentax model in black?)

Ringo Starr is sporting it for about a third of the movie. It was the year of its introduction, so one could think of product placement, but for that the name was not shown prominently enough. (Maybe one thought people would ask at the camera store for "that black camera".) Anyway, in one scene Starr lets it drop into a river at releasing it by long cable release, but drags it out by cable and sports it further.


"A Hard Day's Night" , UK , 1964







There are more cameras to see used by press photographers.
There is one scene where one sees from behind a press photographer with his motorized Nikon SP and hears the respective sound and intermittantly sees contacts prints with in sync to the sound added a frame.



 
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Malirex slide viewer
as Monitor for a control device in a spaceship


The settings of SF movies can be intriguing by their design as such, but also in finding out what readymade objects may have been used. The classic examples are the grip of a flat iron and tub outlets used on a control desk of a west-german TV series.

Here a east-german one:

"Stunde des Skorpions" TV-movie , GDR , 1968

 
Czechoslovakian photo-drugstore

"Das Rätsel von Piskov" (The Piskov Enigma) , SF-drama , West-Germany , 1969

The drugstore facade was filmed on location, the interior filmed seemingly in a west-german studio

The big folder and the 35mm SLR I cannot identify. See also the advertizing roll-film box
 
Kinap projector - at open-air movie projection

(as we so far had nothing of that kind)

The protagonoist next to his job as helicopter pilot serving remote mountain villages also does/has to serve as movie projectionis for films he took with him, including simultaneously translating into Georgian.


"Mimino" , comedy , USRR , 1977

 
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Nichyrio Nicnon

"The Mechanic" , action movie , USA , 1972

 
Certainly not an old movie, but there's a scene in One Night in Miami where Mohammed Ali, Jim Brown, and Sam Cooke play keepaway with Malcolm X's Rolleiflex 3.5, about which he's been gushing. Pretty surreal.
 
I checked it with a photo in a consumer sales catalog. What did I get wrong?
 
The Leicina 8 S, you may want to read an article about it, is used either with the bare built-in 15 mm lens or with one of the wide-angle or telephoto attachments. The snap-on accessories are all of the same size and smaller than what the SV has, namely the Angénieux K 2 Varifocal lens, hence the designation with a V. Anyway, not that important. I like to follow this thread.
 
Cambo SC 9x12

Rolleicord

Meopta Opemus II enlarger

Leitz Prado 500 high-output projector

Photo shooting gallery



"10.32" crime movie , The Netherlands , 1966 , A movie where photo stuff plays an important role.



Cambo used by police for scene-of-crime photography
see how the flash is just put on the bellows for indirect lighting













Great way to get into contact with a photographer: tripping over the leg of his tripod w. Rolleicord...


How not to use the lens shade:


photo shooting gallery (above target seems to be a Cambo 20 instant camera, however in the movie they have it about negative film)
 
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Werra (1959) , Exakta Varex IIa model 1961, Pentaka 8 model from the 60's

"Endstation Schrottplatz" , episode from GDR TV crime series from 1969.
Setting is a burglary at a camera store in 1954. Thus none of the cameras fits to smart-ass standard...

Unique is the sample of the Exakta. It has still the straight apron and the two PC sockets at the rare right side location from the earlier model, but already the black Exakta label !




 
I think this the first time a RB67 showed up in this thread, likely even a Mamiya at all...
 
Minox A

"No... not a Minox again..."

But this one is different. It is hidden in a women cosmetic-purse. Facing backwards. The large mirror of the purse used as visor. That only the viefinder window is uncovered and not the lens window... who cares.

"Auftrag Mord" episode from east-german crime-series "Blaulicht", 1965

Setting: East-Berlin with west-german secret service agent doing photography






Of course they could not keep it at a Minox, there had to be further camera, hidden in an accessory car-searchlight


In both cases the releasing was dubbed with the sound of an escapement.


No camera, but I consider it funny:
In a scene a miniature tape recorder has to be hooked up to a radio (to record a coded message) .By lack of a cable with apt audio plug they used a synch cable with PC plug.
 
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