Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/04/01

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Addicted to Love, was Did you see Mighty Joe Young
From: Dan Cardish <dcardish@microtec.net>
Date: Thu, 01 Apr 1999 21:48:03 -0500

If the camera was clearly identifiable in the movie, it was not by
accident.  I suspect that Leica paid for the priviledge of having their
camera used in the film.

Dan C. 

someone wrote:

>Mark,
>
>The mother was Maureen Stapleton and both she and Meg Ryan had Leicas - or
>maybe it was the same one. I always figured it was because the prop master
>was planning on keeping it after the film was over. Margaret Sullivan was an
>actress in the 1940s who was known for having an affair with Jimmy Stewart.
>
>Bryan
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Mark Rabiner <mrabiner@concentric.net>
>To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
>Date: Thursday, April 01, 1999 12:45 PM
>Subject: Re: [Leica] Addicted to Love, was Did you see Mighty Joe Young
>
>
>>Paul Klingaman wrote:
>>>
>>> Didn't see Mighty Joe, but did anyone happen to catch "Addicted to
>>> Love?"  Throughout the movie, Meg Ryan's character sports an M6, taking
>>> pictures of her affections.  I thought Meg was sexy in "When Harry Met
>>> Sally", but YEESH with a Leica up to her eye!
>>>
>>Again it was not Meg Ryan with the M6 in that movie it was her mother
>>played by Margaret Sullivan. How you could confuse Meg with Margaret is
>>Freudian to the max one might think.
>>The use of the camera obscura technique sure turned my head around?!
>>Mark Rabiner
>
>
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