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Subject: RE: [Leica] Leica Sightings
From: "bdcolen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>
Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2003 11:12:05 -0500

Sure it wasn't a Contax - being waved about quickly? :-)

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From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
[mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us] On Behalf Of Kit
McChesney | acmefoto
Sent: Saturday, March 15, 2003 12:06 AM
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: [Leica] Leica Sightings


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


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