MTC Photography Posted March 20, 1999 Share Posted March 20, 1999 Have you seen Minox in movie, TV or magazines ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wolfgang__ Posted March 30, 1999 Share Posted March 30, 1999 The first time I saw a Minox was in a german monthly magazine called Kosmos, it was the october/60 issue. It was an announcement of the Minox B showing a tourist in some italian city (Venice perhaps). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jon__ Posted June 27, 1999 Share Posted June 27, 1999 At my optician's recently, there was a BMW magazine, with a photo contest there. One of the photographer teams was a man and woman, and the portrait they had of themselves was them in the front seat of a BMW, with him sighting back with a Minox -- probably a CLX. <p> Jon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ken_trettin Posted June 28, 1999 Share Posted June 28, 1999 The past few months the History Channel on cable TV has been running various shows about spies and spy technology. Of course Minox cameras are often shown. The comments include those about the public's perception that the camera is used only by spies. One of the shows told of a Russian general who spied for the CIA. He had been furnished with a Minox B (here the camera does a close up of a B rotating on a light table so it ca be seen from all sides) and provided the CIA with 51 rolls of highly classified documents. At 50 per roll that amounts to 2550 pages!! He was arrested, tried and executed; part of the evidence used agains him was the fact that he possessed a Minox camera Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john__7 Posted August 8, 1999 Share Posted August 8, 1999 In the movie Grosse Pointe Blank, John Cusack uses one. <p> Also see http://www.retroactive.com/sept98/minox.html -- at the bottom, there's a list of movies that have used them. <p> Sorry about the email address. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michael_goldfarb1 Posted August 10, 1999 Share Posted August 10, 1999 As the author of the article just mentioned (thanks!), I thought I'd add another instance somebody recently mentioned to me: <p> In Roman Holiday (1953), Gregory Peck (as a reporter) uses a Minox... wrong! He holds it waist level, with his finger over the lens opening (!), and looks down at it like a TLR... <p> Of course, Grosse Pointe Blank got it wrong also: when it shows the subjective view through the viewfinder (without the distinctive Minox brightline) when John Cusack snaps a picture with his B, instead of the distinctive "zzzzip" Minox shutter sound, it uses a typical SLR mirror-up flash of blackness accompanied by the "zit-whrrr" of a motorized film advance! <p> Good thing only us fanatics notice such things... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
al__ Posted August 10, 1999 Share Posted August 10, 1999 In "Roman Holiday" that's Van Heflin using an Echo-8. <p> al Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michael_goldfarb1 Posted August 11, 1999 Share Posted August 11, 1999 Thanks re Roman Holiday, Al - I was obviously misinformed! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MTC Photography Posted August 12, 1999 Author Share Posted August 12, 1999 The first time I saw Minox 35mm camera on TV was Charlton Heston, the Oscar winning actor of Ben Hur, using a Minox 35mm camera taking snapshot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MTC Photography Posted August 14, 1999 Author Share Posted August 14, 1999 In a Canadian made for TV movie titled "Doomsday Gun" about the life and works ofCanadian super gun designer Gerrad Bull, a spy hiding inside G. Bull's companyused a Minox spy camera to copy design information from computer terminal.G. Bull was later murdered. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
james__3 Posted November 14, 1999 Share Posted November 14, 1999 Stephen Rea uses a Minox in Robert Altman's Ready to Wear, snapping pictures of a half-naked Sally Kellerman. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
labce__ Posted December 21, 1999 Share Posted December 21, 1999 I just recently saw a great World War II submarine movie for the zillionth time.It`s called "Up Periscope".The whole point of the story is for the sub to get James Garner close to a Japanese island so he can swim ashore and photograph a codebook with a Minox Riga.He uses the camera properly,but no measuring chain!I guess he`s a really a good judge of distance!The camera even sounds right.Check it out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anti_rip_off_patrol Posted December 23, 1999 Share Posted December 23, 1999 Flipping through the channels tonight, I ran across "Hotel" (1967). Which has a reporter guy (I think) snapping shots in the hotel lobby with a Minox B (I think). He was shooting pictures of a black couple who were refused a room there. I'm not sure what the rest of the movie is about. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
k.__ Posted December 26, 1999 Share Posted December 26, 1999 James Stewart uses one to copy some police documents in "Call Northside 777". This film also shows photochemical reproduction of wire-service facsimile transmissions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MTC Photography Posted January 8, 2000 Author Share Posted January 8, 2000 A Minox C (!) camera was shown in 1991 movie JFK. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MTC Photography Posted January 30, 2000 Author Share Posted January 30, 2000 Jan 28 4-5 EST TLC channel show: "The Spy Game", in which Jerry Friedman re-enacted a spy carrying a suit case full of document to a publich wash room, closed the door took out a secret document, holding it to the door, and copied it with a Minox camera. Two cameras were featured, a Riga Minox, and Minox B. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sal__ Posted April 1, 2001 Share Posted April 1, 2001 In the TV series, "Stalag 13", Hogans Heroes used a Minox A exclusively to photograph documents and secret weapons. Best of all, it was usually done with one small candle and sometimes just a match. Some of the enlargments were incredible. Uh Huh!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MTC Photography Posted July 6, 2003 Author Share Posted July 6, 2003 Movie: Charlie's Angels: Full Throtle<p> One of the angel played by Cameron Diaz was holding silver color Minox camera, probably a LX. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Minoxit Posted February 20, 2012 Share Posted February 20, 2012 <p>In "What Planet Are You From?",FAA's operative John Goodman covertly photographs the alien who came to get laid on Earth...he's using what seems to be a Minox ECX with flash unit hooked on (he actually employs the flash).</p> <p>In Goodman's large hands,the camera is almost invisible,but you can see very clearly the "hammer" type of the ECX flash unit.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
8x11 Posted February 22, 2012 Share Posted February 22, 2012 <p>Shall we have a Bond Film count of Minox. <br> My opening bid is: Minox B - OHMSS. What was odd about it....?</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B. C. S. Posted August 15, 2017 Share Posted August 15, 2017 You can see a bunch of clips of Minox's in the movies on You Tube. I find it really funny to watch these as the actors, in many cases, have no idea how the camera works. Such things as opening and closing the camera, then taking the picture, using the flash contact on top as the shutter button, holding the camera completely covering the lens (that one a lot!), and of course, never focusing, taking a light reading, etc. They are fun though - enjoy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Create an account or sign in to comment
You need to be a member in order to leave a comment
Create an account
Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!
Register a new accountSign in
Already have an account? Sign in here.
Sign In Now