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Subject: [Leica] Cigaret lighter camera - The Prisoner
From: douglas.sharp at gmx.de (Douglas Sharp)
Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2011 23:28:52 +0100
References: <AANLkTimu3t79pUstDbEBkZGJephrgvCThnCxOXwWP0xP@mail.gmail.com> <78F19199-E1E6-4835-AF64-0964CD91B6D9@gmail.com> <4D277EF7.4080608@gmx.de> <238FC5E9-75BD-4A9D-801C-F92B733F2B94@gmail.com>

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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