Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/07/06

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Subject: Re: [Leica]Leicas spotted on the small screen....
From: David Degner <ddegner@morris.com>
Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2001 11:02:47 -0400
References: <00a001c10624$cf6b7580$0300000a@marklaptop>

If you listen carefully in  the recent movie "Traffic" the mother/wife of 
the addicted daughter and drug czar says of the daughter "She took my 
Leica".  I almost jumped out of my seat when I heard that.

At 10:31 AM 7/6/2001 -0400, you wrote:
>I was watching an interesting documentary on the Canadian channel- TRIO
>about the making of the film of Shakespeare's Henry V by Kenneth Brannagh. I
>have always enjoyed his work, even "Mary Shelley's Franenstein" as he seems
>to have a feel for period pieces, and some of his Shakespeare presentations
>are quite good.
>While filming, Lord Snowden was there, and was recorded shooting what
>appeared to be an M6 with a 35 or 28 lens- as it had a square shade---
>possibly it might have been even a 21.
>I have always been fascinated with the technical aspect of filming movies,
>and it was an interesting program. Evidently, Lord Snowden is a discerning
>and most discriminating photographer as far as his choice of equipment is
>concerned!
>Cheers!
>Dan

In reply to: Message from "Mark E Davison" <dmark8@qwest.net> ([Leica] Ralph Gibson on-line interview)