Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/11/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> Hi all, next to buying & using my Leicas, i enjoy seeing them used IN > pictures or movies. The following will list a few I have found, can any > members of LUG add to my list? In the movie of Ken Follett's "Eye of the Needle", set in 1944, the Nazi spy 'The Needle' (Donald Sutherland) has been sent to photograph General Patton's army in East Anglia in England (which turns out to be a decoy, and fake). He pulls out of his jacket a (mint) chrome Leica , with a collapsible lens. As he walks among the fake plywood-and-canvas airplanes, he takes several pictures. Each photo is signalled by the sound of the shutter, which has been CLEARLY recorded, although it must be from the point of view of The Needle, himself, to be that loud. As he takes one of the photographs, there is a closeup of Sutherland with the camera at his eye. The vintage-Leica experts should easily be able to discern the model. The rest of the movie involves The Needle's efforts to get the film out of England. I won't spoil it for those who haven't seen it! Recommended! _____________________________________________________________________ Bruce MacKnight Cochrane, AB CANADA