OT: Cameras in movies

I agree with pesphoto...High Art with Ally Sheedy is a very good film. Ally plays the ficticous photographer Lucy Berliner. The performances by Radha Mitchell (Syd) and, especially, Patricia Clarkson (Greta) are outstanding.

I'm pretty sure the rig is an M2...but not totally sure. There are some great examples of JoJo Whildon's work.

Also...listening to the director's narration, there is a cool technique used in this film where they expose the film to a small light source before exposure using a Vericon device. This "flashing" technique creates an interesting colour effect for some of the interior shots.

If you can get a chance to watch...check it out.

~hibbs
 
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spysmart said:
Minox B in Pretty Poison
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And, I suspect, in just about every 1960s spy TV series and movie... They certainly appeared in The Avengers almost as often as Steed and Mrs Peel!

There's also a 1950s Kodak Box Brownie in The Quiet American (I think - Michael Caine and Vietnam). A bomb explodes in the street, and someone takes a photo of the aftermath with the Brownie held over his head, facing away from the incident. Stands out a mile if, like me, you've tried that for looking over things!

Adrian
 
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Just saw The Royal Tenenbaums on TV today.
Early on there's a scene featuring Luke Wilson using a Rollei 35.

Chris
 
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Took my 15 year old stepson to see "Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire" a few years ago. In the movie, there is a reporter who is using an absolutely beautiful vintage folding camera that I couldn't identify. Of course I immediately decided that, whatever it was, I needed to get one. Well, I eventually found a still photo of it online. Turns out it was cobbled together from at least two cameras: a vintage Graphlex large format SLR (the body and pyramid-shaped viewfinder) with the blood-red bellows and scissors struts of an antique Kodak folder soldered and glued to the front of it. I was very disappointed.
 
I watched "Play it again, Sam" few days ago. One scene took place in a photo studio, and there were some Rolleiflexes in the background.
 
jcline said:
I just saw the The Notorious Bettie Page in the theater...
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The John Willie character played by Jared Harris is using a Leica IIIC when he was talking to Bettie about Jesus when she was tied up with the ball gag etc.
(figures that they would get that much right about the film....I think John Willie would have used a Leica in real life, that`s just the type of person he was)

One of the best LTM camera scenes I can remember in a film is in the 1981 WW2 Spy Thriller
"Eye Of The Needle" with Donald Sutherland - as he uses a Leica IIIA or IIIB/Summar combo to photograph the
Operation Fortitude deception operations of General Patton`s Phantom Army preparing for the Invasion of France in 1944 - a movie well worth checking out btw......

And speaking of D-Day in "The Longest Day" the American War Correspondent has a Black Leica II/III around his neck on the beach (look closely)


Tom
 
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Tom,

It was mentioned in a previous cameras-in-movies threads, but have you seen Das Boot? There's a PJ in it who use a Barnack with a Summar or Summitar. I'd be interested to see if you could identify it more accurately.

Matthew
 
In the new horror flick Shutter. There's a Hassy throughout. But there's one scene, when the photographer is taking a picture of a girl during a flashback, and it's just for a split second. You can see him holding a Leica.

Also, there's a new film coming out soon. I think it's called midnight train or something. About a photographer doing a project on subways. And for whatever reason, he always ends up on a train, right after this new serial killer has murdered someone. He uses a Leica during the whole thing.

As for older movies, I know there's a Leica in Euro Trip, Blood Diamond, and Spy Games.
 
Pretty sure Kudo (played deftly by Akira Kubo), who plays a professional photographer in the 1970 Toho Studios Japanese science fiction classic "Yog - Monster from Space", was using a Spotmatic to photograph the giant, radioactive, under alien mind control giant crab, lobster, and squid (actually it's a cuddle fish)... hell-bent on destroying the earth!

Here's the trailer for "the greatest story ever told" Yog, Monster from Space: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82fPVjKXKL4
 
The Photographer

The Photographer

Here's one that I didn't see mentioned.

The Photographer is an Indie film released in 2000. Max (Reg Rogers) is a New York street photographer. In the begining of the film he is using a SLR. That camera gets stolen and he buys a used viewfinder camera at a street market for 15.00. It took me a while to crack, but he ends up with a Haking Halina 35X.

Max SLR.jpgMax Halina 35X.jpgMax Halina 35X night.jpg
http://www.camerapedia.org/wiki/Halina_35X
 
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Spotted some Leicas in recent films. Terence Howard uses one in "Awake". One scene has him focusing on someone about 18 inches in front of him - oh well! And Julie Delphy uses a Leica in "Two Days in Paris".
 
Just watched 1967's Toho monster opus, Son of Godzilla on Netflix streaming last night. Akira Kubo, who plays a photographer in the film, is using what looks to be a Yashica TL Super SLR (might have been one of the "J"s). He was using a 50 and later in the film a telephoto lens to document Godzilla, Spiga, the giant praying mantis, and "baby gojiro".

I just noticed Kubo - who got his break in 1963's "Attack of the Mushroom People", seemed to play a photographer a lot in the Toho monster flicks in the 60's. He was a photographer in Yog, Monster from Space, and also in Son of Godzilla.

Anyone else notice that?
 
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