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troublemaker · Joined: 24 Nov 2003 Posts: 715 Location: So Cal

The trailer I saw this evening of Cinderella Man certainly had a Pacemaker right in your face, but if I am not mistaken, it was a bit too new..., but lotsa bulbs poppin in that one, kinda EXAGERATED as ussual.

Stephen

Press25 · Joined: 28 May 2003 Posts: 15 Location: Minneapolis,MN

tsgrimm · Joined: 04 Apr 2004 Posts: 158 Location: SE Michigan

MikeS · Joined: 25 Nov 2003 Posts: 71 Location: East Tennessee

If he forgot to pull the darkslide, that doesn't mean it's Hollywood fakery, just that he learned how to use the camera from somebody like me!

-Mike

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45PSS · Posted: Fri May 20, 2005 2:42 am Post subject:

Lots of gallery quality images on darkslides.

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SoCal Dave · Joined: 05 Sep 2004 Posts: 4 Location: Orange County, CA

troublemaker · Joined: 24 Nov 2003 Posts: 715 Location: So Cal

Ok fine and dandy, but can you imagine the surprise when I was mindlessly watching the Simpsons cartoon Haloween special and one of the short stories had press cameras snapping away...just like in the movies?

Stephen

Top · Posted: Tue Jan 03, 2006 12:41 pm Post subject:

Just saw the new 'King Kong yesterday and all the press guys had pre-Annys (although some of them had Graflex flashguns). Nice to see Jackson doing his homework.
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Jack5541 · Joined: 31 Jul 2003 Posts: 76

David A. Goldfarb · Joined: 03 Sep 2004 Posts: 142 Location: New York City

Graphics make frequent appearances in _Capote_. They do remember to change the flashbulb after the shot, though I didn't notice any filmholders being flipped or changed.

And on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera, at the end of Tobias Picker's new work, _An American Tragedy_, based on the novel by Theodore Dreiser and on the real events that inspired the novel, a photographer comes on stage with what looks to be a wooden 8x10" field camera and a flash pan with powder (the action of the play takes place around 1905), and gets a shot of the main character in the courtroom after he is sentenced to death for murder. I guess in the opera everything has to be a little bit larger than life.

journ2arch · Joined: 06 Jan 2006 Posts: 7 Location: Roanoke VA

Like some of you, I was mostly pleased by the cameras used in "King Kong."

In "Cinderella Man," many of the cameras were post-1947 Pacemakers, but at least in one scene that takes place in 1928, they ARE using flash powder. I did appreciate that.

My nomination for the Speed Graphic Ananchronism Hall of Shame (as well as being a terrible movie despite having Angelica Huston and Hillary Swank), is a made-for-HBO film about the women's sufferage movement called "Iron-Jawed Angels." (Hey, my wife had it on!)

Though the story takes place during World War I, some of the press photographers hounding our suffragette heroines are using Pacemakers! Tsk. Tsk.

JMP · Joined: 09 Oct 2006 Posts: 13 Location: London England

Fairly new to the site and found this thread whilst browsing around.

Recently watched "The Notorious Bettie Page" and lots of Speed Graphics in there. Also (off topic) a few Stereo Realist 35mm 3D cameras used in a scene where she is at a camera club and one guy is holding it in portrait mode (which wouldn't work as to get stereo effect the pics have to be side by side, like your eyes). If course, this might be deliberate to illustrate that guys might joinn a camera club knowing next to nothing about photography.

Also, the TV series Homicide: Life On The Streets has a character in it who is a photographer working with the police department. He is a total Weegee nut (and namechecks him several times) and, even though the series is set in the "present day" (ran from 1993 to 1999) he dresses in 1940's gear and, of course uses a Speed Graphic. He even lives in a storeroom at police HQ for a while!!! Great series, even without the Weegee references.

essessem · Joined: 19 Feb 2003 Posts: 48 Location: California

Geez, don't get me started about "The Notorious Bettie Page." If it weren't for the lovely Gretchen Mol and overall good-naturedness of Mary Herron's direction, the inaccurately-portrayed camera wielding would have completely ruined the film for me. (By the way, I detest poorly-typeset film credits as well--not an issue here.) So I doubt if the director was trying to portray amateur nudie photographers as not really knowing their camera. You rarely, if ever, see anyone winding a film knob, as if they all had high-speed motor drives. I recollect that the studio scenes showed Paula Klaw (Lili Taylor) just shooting away with a Crown, film holders be damned. When will Hollywood finally become sensitive to antique camera geeks?

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rmbroome · Joined: 10 May 2007 Posts: 11 Location: Memphis TN.

Do not forget the newest HollyWood Land and The Black Dahlia. A lot of them.

ASpeedGraphic · Joined: 10 May 2006 Posts: 24 Location: Los Angeles, CA

Why, however, do the cameras always make so much noise in the movies? These things are practically silent in reality, but they always have the sound effects from flash powder.

Keith