Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/01/12

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Movies - Leica Product Placement
From: "Mark Hammons" <astair@ix.netcom.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 21:23:29 -0600

>You must have missed last summer's rather obscure "High Art" about 
>the romantic entanglements and cocaine consumption of a photographer
>played by Ally Sheedy. The high (no pun intended) points of the
>movie for me were the scenes in which the M2 or M3 appeared.

>Now let's go to the other extreme -  what's the earliest movie in 
>which a Leica appeared?  I believe one makes a cameo along with a 
>Rolleiflex in "Never on Sunday."

>Roy


I remember that Jack Nicholson used a LTM camera in "Chintown".


Mark Hammons


P.S.  Jimmy Stewart used an Exakta in "Rear Window".