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Subject: [Leica] Cigaret lighter camera - The Prisoner
From: jsmith342 at gmail.com (Jeffery Smith)
Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2011 16:43:48 -0600
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It's been 35 years or so since I watched it. This talk has piqued my 
interest, though. I remember liking the series, even though it was quite 
brief. I just noticed that I can buy all 840 minutes of the episodes on DVD 
for about $39. 

Jeffery


On Jan 7, 2011, at 4:28 PM, Douglas Sharp wrote:

> I only seem to remember "All you need is love", but I may be mistaken, 
> wasn't Dem Bones sung in the courtroom scene?
> 
> Cheers
> Douglas
> 
> On 07.01.2011 22:13, Jeffery Smith wrote:
>> 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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