Old Cameras in Old Movies

[Rhodes]

Doctor Who Episode 9, Hide (2013) of Season 7 proves that the Nikon F Photomic FTn (and the film inside) can stand the heat of the early years of Earth. He in the other hand, had to use a protective suite...even Time Lords could not stand that heat...

 

[DannL.]

I just saw "The Great Escape" with Steve McQueen, James Garner, Charles Bronson, John Wayne, James Coburn. There was a scene where they were preparing what appeared to be a Zeiss folder for the escape.

 

[Paul Howell]

The movie adaption of Raymond Chandler Little Sister Marlow with James Gardner, one of the characters is shooting with a Nikon F with motor drive to take pictures for blackmail, in the novel it was Leica.

 

[David A. Goldfarb]

I watched the original, uncut, Japanese version of Godzilla (1954) recently, which featured several scenes with a scrum of press photographers using press cameras properly, changing the flashbulbs after each shot (something that seems to be forgotten in more recent films). One prominent one looked to have kind of a square, untapered bellows that popped out with folding struts on the side. Also a few other characters were carrying Japanese rangefinders of the era.

 

[removed account4]

it's not an olde antique movie but it is a period movie or 2 ..
the first on is photographing fairies
the other one is about ( kinda sorta) weegee...
the first one uses a classic ( big old ) portrait camera
the other uses well, a classic speeder or crown...

 

[destroya]

the making of extras disc from star trek 2009. shows JJ abrams walking around the set using a pentax 67 to get camera point of view for future shots

 

[ronnies]

Chinatown. Jack Nicholson uses a Leica (or a lookalike).

Ronnie

 

[AgX]

"Peeping Tom" again.

And his first camera (given as as child) was a Cine-Kodak.

But can someone identify his other serious camera, a 5x7 view camera?

 

[narsuitus]

City of God (2002)
Closer (2004 movie; not the TV series with a similar name)
Everlasting Moments (2008)
Fur (2006)
Gentleman's Relish (2001 TV movie)
High Art (1998)
Harrison's Flowers (2000)
One Hour Photo (2002)
Proof (1991 movie with Russell Crowe; not the 2015 TV series with the same name)

 

[Mackinaw]

Not sure if this qualifies as an old movie, but in the 2002 Spiderman, Toby Maguire is walking around with a Canon F-1N (with the Canon name taped over).

Jim B.

 

[AgX]

"ZOO"

"Nachtblende"/"L'important c'est d'aimer"

"Eyes of Laura Mars"

 

[flavio81]

"Pecker"

Canonet QL17 or QL19 if i recall correctly.

 

[flavio81]

The "secret life of walter mitty" movie (which I liked) shows a Nikon F3/T (titanium) for the photographer the story revolves around.

 

[bergytone]

It's not an old movie, but in Jurassic World, the kid is shooting what looks like a holga, and he must be into double and triple exposure, because he never winds the thing between shots. Then, a second later it is gone. A dinosaur must have eaten it.

 

[k.hendrik]

'Z' 1969 Jacques Perrin the fotojournalist with a Nikon F2(?) with MD

 

[elcabezagrande]

Canonet QL17 or QL19 if i recall correctly.

Minolta Hi-Matic 9, I think.

 

[mehguy]

A Leica M6 appears in the movie "Big Fish".

 

[elcabezagrande]

"Under Fire". At least one Nikon F in virtually every scene.

 

[Someonenameddavid]

'Z' 1969 Jacques Perrin the fotojournalist with a Nikon F2(?) with MD

Couldn't have been an F2 if it was before 1972

 

[AgX]

"Peeping Tom" again.

And his first camera (given as as child) was a Cine-Kodak.

But can someone identify his other serious camera, a 5x7 view camera?

EDIT:film has been taken off Youtube meanwhile

 

[removed account4]

just saw high anxiety again last night
and the driver was a shutterbug
not sure what camera he was using

 

[BobD]

here's a link for you:

http://www.shootingfilm.net/2013/04/vintage-cameras-in-famous-movies.html

best one is Clark Gable with a Rolleiflex Korelle

That should read Reflex Korelle, not Rolleiflex.

 

[resummerfield]

“We Were Soldiers” (2002) featured a war correspondent “Joe Galloway” using a black Nikon FTN, which was introduced a few years after the battle of Ia Drang in 1965.

The “Twilight Zone” episode “A Most Unusual Camera” (Season 2, 1960) features a generic box camera that takes pictures of the future. Mysteriously it develops the print and ejects it like a Polaroid SX from the 70’s.

 

[Marvin]

Speed Graphics are in many old B&W Movies, and movies trying to portray that era. Seems like a lot of work for a news photographer handling 4x5 holders and flashbulbs.

 

[AE35]

Dan Aykroyd's character from Ghostbusters (1984) apparently likes Nikons. (I think its an FE2)