Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/01/07

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Subject: [Leica] Cigaret lighter camera
From: jsmith342 at gmail.com (Jeffery Smith)
Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2011 15:13:52 -0600
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I think the producers of "The Prisoner" were ticked off about being 
canceled, and turned the finale into a farce. Weren't they dancing to the 
song "The knee bone's connected to the thigh bone"?

Jeffery


On Jan 7, 2011, at 3:00 PM, Douglas Sharp wrote:

> Ilya Kuryakin and Napoleon Solo - great stuff!
> 
> They've just started re-running the surviving episodes of the first series 
> of the Avengers on German TV (one of the culture channels, no less) the 
> episodes with Dr David Keel (Ian Hendry) and the first appearances of 
> Honor Blackman as Cathy Gale - all in glorious black and white.
> 
> The same channel recently also showed the still rather weird "The 
> Prisoner". And I still don't understand the finale:-(
> 
> Cheers
> Douglas
> 
> On 07.01.2011 21:45, Jeffery Smith wrote:
>> Now, that's better. There's a certain degree of cold war coolness to it. 
>> Do you remember "The Man from U.N.C.L.E."?
>> 
>> Jeffery
>> 
>> On Jan 7, 2011, at 2:36 PM, Lawrence Zeitlin wrote:
>> 
>>> Jeffery asked about the cigarette subminiature camera.
>>> - - - - -
>>> The camera is an Echo 8, produced by Suzuki on and off after 1951. It 
>>> looks
>>> like a Zippo lighter of that era and actually works as a lighter. It had 
>>> a
>>> fixed focus lens and took a mini roll of 8 mm film. Allegedly it was
>>> intended to be a spy camera or at least a topic of curiosity. There is 
>>> one
>>> on display in the CIA museum although there is no evidence that it was
>>> actually used in spying. I recall the price being in the neighborhood of 
>>> $50
>>> or $60 rather than the $2000 currently being asked.
>>> Here is a listing of the camera:
>>> http://www.camerapedia.org/wiki/Echo_8_and_Camera-Lite
>>> Larry Z
>>> 
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