Movies, Shows, etc. & Mechanical Pencil Sightings

General Mechanical Pencil Discussion
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A few months ago I was watching a show from 2013 or 2014 called Redwood Kings. I noticed one of their artists using a black Pentel P205. (I still have the show and was going to take a pic, but just haven’t yet.) Has anyone here noticed mechanical pencils in any of the shows or movies they have watched?

I belonged to a slide rule collectors group and they would post the details of any shows where they saw a slide rule and I always thought it was fun.

It is also interesting to see some of the inaccuracies, like a 1960’s metal Pickett slide rule being used by a WWII German officer.

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From the blog of a pencil friend:

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This is such an awesome thread Idea. Will be back when I have a siting to report out.

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We already have a thread for this centered specifically around anime. Merging possible?

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I remember seeing Katherine Johnson in Hidden Figures using a P209, several years before it was released.

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Far more likely to have been a Skillcraft? :smiley:

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Should have been, but it is definitely a P209.

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They should have consulted George Fox. He would have set them straight.

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I remember reading a post on George’s blog about supplying pencils to a Big Bang Theory spinoff.

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Yes, that would have been “Young Sheldon”.

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