WWII Star Wars weaponry & cameras in popular culture

[thd9791]

Coincidentally I was watching the cartoon Atlantis today and look what I found! Mausers, Carbines, a Flare Gun and old reflector flash cameras!





Found other examples of Star Wars props in pop culture? Post them here!

 

[SethS]

This is the one I know best:


Whenever I explain to people what I Graflex is I tell them to google up Joe Pesci in The Public Eye

 

[PoopaPapaPalps]

What an odd thread. Considering the time period of the movie, it would make sense they would have these things. I mean, these things existed before Star Wars, you know.

But I'll play along since we're listing things we've spotted in media that pertains to SW prop-ing. The last thing that I saw and really stuck out to me was the Tom Hardy flick about the Kray twins, and there's a shot in the film where there's a photo taken with a flash camera and the flash unit was a clear and distinct Heiland. The other one also to mind was in Bridge of Spies, you spot a few Graflites in there.

 

[Welsh Pirate]

I'm surprised nobody has mentioned this yet:

 

[SethS]

What an odd thread. Considering the time period of the movie, it would make sense they would have these things. I mean, these things existed before Star Wars, you know.

But I'll play along since we're listing things we've spotted in media that pertains to SW prop-ing. The last thing that I saw and really stuck out to me was the Tom Hardy flick about the Kray twins, and there's a shot in the film where there's a photo taken with a flash camera and the flash unit was a clear and distinctly a Heiland. The other one also to mind was in Bridge of Spies, you spot a few Graflites in there.

I actually noticed those too!

 

[thd9791]

I forgot about this too - the wartime pieces, used for TFA recently, also showed up in a newer Sherlock Holmes movie.

 

[Halliwax]

I'm surprised nobody has mentioned this yet:

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get out! i never noticed that!

 

[MCM]

I always smile when I see a broomhandle on the silverscreen

 

[Welsh Pirate]

I always smile when I see a broomhandle on the silverscreen

It tends to show up more often than you'd expect. I think filmmakers, or just people in general, naturally gravitate to it's distictive and unique look. It even shows up in animation:

 

[russellsch]

5th Element

 

[LorduDesign]

Well, there was Sterling in first RoboCop. MG42 in Saving Private Ryan. Karabiner 98k in X-Men. Lee-Enfield No 1 MK 3 in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. MG15 in Pearl Harbor. These are just few examples, there was A LOT more use of weapons like these in movies.

 

[binkleywalker]

Seeing weapons from WW2 in a WW2 movie isn't really that weird though, right?

I see Sterlings all the time. Maximum Overdrive is one, and I'm blanking on others, but always cool when you see one.

 

[binkleywalker]

 

[Panaflex]

Shawshank

 

[Curmudgeon]

The Sterling makes an appearance in Brazil

The STG 44 is featured prominently in Fury.. That's not one you see too often, even in WWII movies

 

[Sym-Cha]

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Shawshank

Funny how none of the photographers finger is really on the shutter release button on the front of the camera to really take a picture :lol ... not to mention the lack of flash release cables attached to the lens or solenoid :wacko

Chaim