LF in the movies

[Benno Jones]

LF in musicals -

Funny Face - Fred Astaire plays a variation on Richard Avedon (Avedon was a consultant on the film), several LF shooting scenes and darkroom scenes (that have nothing to do with reality of course - it's a musical - he processes a print through developer, stop and fix in about 30 seconds total...)

Easter Parade - Many old press cameras in view as the characters parade down 5th Avenue in their finest in the opening and closing scenes.

[D. Bryant]

Are there any movies that feature LF photography - especially period movies? I seem to remember a Chinese movie which dealt with the first introduction of photography in China, but can't remember the name. As I read more about early photography I am led to wonder if cinema has ever tackled any part of that history. Documentaries would be interesting suggestions too, but I am really thinking of movies here.

-A

"What The Bleep Do We Know?", - Marlee Matlin plays the role of a confused frustrated woman and wedding photographer that enjoys shooting photographs with an 8x10 Cambo.

" Charlie Varrick" - Sherre North plays a small supporting role as a hack studio photographer and uses an old Calumet 4x5 to photograph Walter Matthau for a passport photo. She used the camera like she knew what she was doing.

Don Bryant

[mrladewig]

Strangly enough, in all the Harry Potter movies, the press photographers are always using LF press cameras.

[Ash]

Anybody else seen MAN ON WIRE ?

It's a docu-film, one of the accomplices is interviewed in his studio, LF monorail in background.

[Jehu]

There was a photographer in Godfather that made the mistake of taking a picture of Barzini. If I remember right, he pulled the negative out, crumpled it up and tossed it ont the ground. A few minutes later, Sonny grabbed a camera from a journalist outside the gate and destroyed it. All in the first 10 minutes of the movie.

I like the typical scene in some of the old westerns where a photographer has his head under the dark cloth while he's holding the bulb up wating for the shot.

[David A. Goldfarb]

Anybody else seen MAN ON WIRE ?

It's a docu-film, one of the accomplices is interviewed in his studio, LF monorail in background.

Back up in response #3, Ash.

[Ash]

Ahhh! Should have read the thread first, was being lazy

[gari beet]

Don't remember the name of the film, Alec Guiness plays a husband keen on photography, chats to some other character re his new Thornton Pickard, WP Ithink.

Comes to a sticky end when his shed/darkroom is blown up. Guiness as usual plays several of the roles in a comedy murder mystery. Anyone else remember it or am I having a senior moment?

Gari

[Pete Roody]

I believe FUR (the Diane Arbus movie starring Nicole Kidman) did. I don't know if it was ever released. Arbus used a Norma and Lens and Repro rented one to the production crew.

[GhoSStrider]

There's a Speed Graphic in "Coal Miner's Daughter" (and if I recall correctly, they forgot to pull the darkslide before taking the picture!).

There's also a large format camera used at the end of "The Blue and the Gray."