Leica on TV or the movies :)

MP Guy · 05-30-2006

So, I am laying in bed watching Married with Children tonight episode: I who have nothing. Al bundy walks through the front door shooting with what appears to be a black M6 with a 75mm. Episode aired last night and I paused it with my DVR. It had a very evident red dot on the front

Not bad for a shoe sales man

JohnM · 05-30-2006

I actually saw a couple of Leicas in movies recently.

I sat through The Godfather III on cable a few weeks back. (It ain't good.) In one of the earlier scenes, the camera pans over a room and there are a couple of M3s, I believe, on a night table.

Another movie has been on HBO lately - not sure what the name is, but Julia Roberts is sporting an M6 at one point. (Didn't watch much of it.)

Treb · 05-30-2006

There's a large number of movies and TV appearances on the Leica FAQ @ http://www.nemeng.com/leica/005ea.shtml

Creagerj · 05-30-2006

Eddie Murphy Raw. Someone is taking a picture of him with an M6 I think.

nico · 05-30-2006

Maybe the movie with Julia Roberts is "closer". I saw it last night and there was a Leica m6 among the actors

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I've also seen one in a silly italian movie "sapore di mare" ... and as far as I can remember Gwyneth (what a name ... it's so difficult to write ...) Paltrow in "Sky Captain and the world of tomorrow" holds a Leica II or III.
Bye
Nico

telenous · 05-30-2006

The movie with Julia Roberts and the M6 is indeed 'Closer' (there's an older thread about that if I 'm not wrong).

Pherdinand · 05-30-2006

Al and a Leica?
He's not such a big loser, after all, heh?

zuikologist · 05-30-2006

Slightly OT: Recently saw a documentary about the Uffizzi gallery in Florence and the investigation of one of the Da Vinci paintings. There was a very impressive array of Leica imaging and IR measuring equipment in use, ironically much of it was digital.

MP Guy · 05-31-2006

YEa. Al had just raided his uncles house after he died. Ended up with all sort of stuff including the Leica and a yellow tooth.

rbiemer · 05-31-2006

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Originally Posted by nico

... and as far as I can remember Gwyneth (what a name ... it's so difficult to write ...) Paltrow in "Sky Captain and the world of tomorrow" holds a Leica II or III.
Bye
Nico

I thought the camera in that movie was a modified Argus C-3?
Rob

RayPA · 05-31-2006

I recently saw 'Lord of War,' and Nicholas Cage appears to use a black M6 to photograph a woman. Also, on one of those drug/pharmaceutical tv commercials for a men's drug, a bunch of older gentlemen are riding in a convertible car and one of 'gents' in the back seat has what appears to be a Leica D2.

Fedzilla_Bob · 05-31-2006

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Originally Posted by rbiemer

I thought the camera in that movie was a modified Argus C-3?
Rob

It waas indeed an Argus C3, the only mods were in post production.

SteveM(PA) · 05-31-2006

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Originally Posted by telenous

The movie with Julia Roberts and the M6 is indeed 'Closer' (there's an older thread about that if I 'm not wrong).

Sitting and punching oneself in the face for two hours whilst listening to Damien Rice is the same as watching Closer, I've found.

MP/CLE · 05-31-2006

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Originally Posted by memphis

I'd seen the leica but wasn't 100% -- now, al bundy using a leica is a selling point for me... a bunch of old guys with junk that don't work doesn't sell the leica to me....

Long live Al Bundy

Good points, Memphis... Al has a charming habit of pointing out the quality in whatever he touches... or is it the deplorable???? I forget, but always found him entertaining. I have seen the ads with guys "with junk that don't work"... a leering woman with "come hither" eyes twinkling and a leica anywhere in that picture just does not enhance the message for either product. Although, I doubt it was leica's idea to put their camera in the hands of a now "fixed" guy.

enochRoot · 05-31-2006

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Originally Posted by RayPA

I recently saw 'Lord of War,' and Nicholas Cage appears to use a black M6 to photograph a woman. Also, on one of those drug/pharmaceutical tv commercials for a men's drug, a bunch of older gentlemen are riding in a convertible car and one of 'gents' in the back seat has what appears to be a Leica D2.

pretty sure it was a cl

AOI Photo · 05-31-2006

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Originally Posted by langdon auger

Sitting and punching oneself in the face for two hours whilst listening to Damien Rice is the same as watching Closer, I've found.

I lovec closer, but always annoy friends when I point out that she took a picture with the leica, that when printed with sloppy borders is obvoiously medium format.

Then everyone tells me to shut up

bobomoon · 05-31-2006

Joe Dirt. Alligator tamer scene. Guy in the audience with leica like camera. My mind sometimes craves junk food and I won't apologize.

Just Me · 05-31-2006

Fresh Prince of Bel Aire, opening when Will Smith gets out of the cab he's got a leica like camera around his neck. can't tell what it is though.

Grober · 06-01-2006

You always know when a Leica camera is spotted in the movies that, from the way they're holding and "using" the camera, the actor has absolutely no clue how to properly use what is in their hands, right? Someone just handed it to them for the scene.

Of course, Yul Brenner knew but I never saw him use one in any scene. Come to think of it, did he every play a character in a modern setting?

amateriat · 07-07-2006

Off-topic only in terms of brand and format: In the just-opening film "Heading South", Charlotte Rampling (who gets my vote as Most Fearless Actress) is handling what looks to be a Rolleiflex TLR. I'll have to see the film to see if she handles it convincingly, but that will likely be relatively low on the priority list when I plunk myself into my seat to watch. (The events of the film take place roughly around 1970 in Haiti.)

Of course, the hottest actress who truly knows her way around a Leica is Jamie Lee Curtis. But I digress...

- Barrett

David Murphy · 07-08-2006

The old TV series "Secret Agent Man" with Patrick McGoohan (also known as "Danger Man" in the UK) is full of episodes wih Leica's (screw mount), Rollei's, and various early Japanse SLR's. The are often used for spy work. I recently saw all the shows from a boxed DVD set.

There was some movie, from the 80's (I think), with Mathew Broderick (I think), set in NY City that prominently feature a camera that looked like a late model Leica M. It was used in many scenes.

Creagerj · 07-08-2006

The (New) Oman, the photographer who is one of the main charactors totes a Lieca M7 (chrome) in several scense. Also in Erotrip one of the charactors is supposed to own a leica and I'm fairly certian that he has one in one or two scense. However on the DVD cover for the move he is holding a contax G2 so I can't be certian.

Gipsy · 07-08-2006

http://movies.aol.com/celebrity/nata...nt/48495/video Click on carnival.

venchka · 07-08-2006

Bob Dylan "Highway 61 Revisited" album cover. Does anyone recognize the camera?

Natalie Merchant, "Carnival" video.

I have a camaera in the movies question: "Blowup", David Hemmings returns from a night of living and photographing in a homeless shelter or something like it. He pulls a camera and film out of a paper bag. What camera? I think it was a rangefinder. I know he had a Nikon F in one of the studio scenes. Probably a Hasselblad as well.

amateriat · 07-08-2006

The camera in the Dylan album cover shot is a Nikon SP. Ms. Merchant appears to be handling an M3.

- Barrett