OT: Vintage cameras on TV/Movies

Just watched a movie, River King, released late last year. For leicaphills (sp?)tell me which M was the teacher using. She at least looked through the v/f ok, but I never saw her focus the lens. Does the M have special focusing functions you guys aren't sharing?
 
Ooh ooh! What about in "Close Encounters of the 3rd Kind", where in one scene we can see someone taking pictures with what looks like a Kodak 110 Instamatic-60 RF?
 
In the Spiderman movies, Peter Parker uses a Canon F1N AE finder. The Canon name was blacked out. I got that from the Canon SLR list.
 
My turn:

Zenit 12XP Fotosnaiper in a Korean movie callled "Over the Rainbow"

and.......

In K19: The Widowmaker, when the submarine breaks through the ice cap after the test launch, the men take a break and play some soccer on the ice. One of the officers takes a picture of the crew with a FED or Zorki (first edition) in a nice looking leatherette.


On another note, I hate how the shutter sounds are so fake in these movies. What's wrong with having the sweet "KACHUNK!" of the Zenit or the CLACK of the FSU Leica III copies? :)
 
Rainy day here. I was watching the classic Bogart, Bacall film "The Big Sleep" I could swear that the camera hidden in the oriental statue was a Zeiss Super Ikonta BX.
 
I remember a WW2 film that was shot in eastern Europe. There was a scene with two British agents in a parked car taking surveilance photos with a Zorki 4 equipped with a turret finder.
 
In one episode of Knight Rider some woman was taking picures with a screwmount Leica.

Dialog later:

Michael: "Wha camera did you use for these pictures?"
Woman: "The best. My grandfather used it in the war"
Michael: "Which war was that?"
Woman: "If its good enough for WW2 battlefield, its good enough for taking picures of *some guys name*"
 
In the current Hallmark TV series the heroine of "Mystery Woman" uses only an RF which looks a lot like an early Contax and on almost every show spends time in a wet darkroom making contact sheets and getting something critical from a frame or two. She must be using 3200 because I never have seen her use a flash even under the most dim conditions. Has anyone else seen the show an ID'd the camera?
 
An Olympus OM-4 is almost the main star of the opening credits for one of the James Bond films. I can't remember which film but it coincided with the launch of the camera which I seem to recall causing a few wry comments in Amateur Photographer at the time.

My memory's probably playing tricks with me but I seem to think an Exacta of some description appears in Schindler's List...
 
I just saw "The Namesake" the other day -- excellent movie indeed. At one point a friend of the main characters takes their picture with what appears to be a Kodak TLR. And a Nikkormat FTn (maybe Nikomat, since the scenes are in India) is used by a couple of the main characters.
 
In the Spiderman movie Peter is seen shooting with a SLR camera but if you notice the "film" is flopped. The film advance is on the wrong side along with Peter's part in his hair. How can they get away with this?? Don't they know it will tick some of us off??
 
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