Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/03/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Kit, Great film (Australian director - naturally) and very topical. I thought the camera being used by the press photographer was a IIIf (big viewfinder window). Alan W On Saturday, March 15, 2003, at 04:05 PM, Kit McChesney | acmefoto wrote: > Dear LUG'ers-- > > Just got home from the picture-show, seeing the new film with Michael > Caine, > The Quiet American, based on Graham Greene's novel. Very disturbing, of > course, as it traces American involvement in politics in Vietnam in the > early 1950's. > > I believe I did see a Leica in the film, and I think it was an > anachronistic > touch; correct me if I'm wrong. > > The film opened on a scene which was to have taken place in 1952. The > Leica > I saw looked an awful lot like an M3, which, according to my book, > came out > in 1954. Granted, a journalist who wielded the said camera was waving > it > about pretty quickly in all the scenes (maybe that was intentional, to > keep > Leica fans from being able to tell), but it appeared in enough scenes > for me > to be able to get a pretty good glimpse. > > I guess you will all have to go see the film to see what I mean. There > was > no camera that Leica made prior to 1954 that I can find in my manual > that > looked enough like the M3 for the camera in the film to have been > whatever-that-was-but-probably-wasn't. Has anyone else seen the film > yet? > > Kit > > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html