If you haven’t seen the film DIVA (Jean-Jacques Beineix 2001) then I have some good news: you should. Apart from being a beautiful film it also features a stealthy Nagra IV-s armed field recordist within its plot. So I got to thinking, what other movies show Nagras onscreen? Another film must surely be THE CONVERSATION (Francis Ford Coppola 1974)
Wikipedia suggests: “a Nagra III features prominently in the John Travolta 1981 film Blow Out (Brian De Palma 1981) about a freelance sound effects engineer. Another Nagra may be seen in the Beatles’ movie Help! (Richard Lester 1965). In the film The Informant! (Steven Soderbergh 2009) the FBI installs a Nagra in Matt Damon’s character’s briefcase to covertly record conversations related to ADM price fixing…”
Any others spring to mind?
In “Seance” by Kiyoshi Kurosawa, one of the characters is a sound effects recordist and If I remember correctly he uses Nagras. Also in “Inception”, the little music playback device is a Nagra Ares-M.
Beautiful machines indeed…
If I remember correclt…
Movie: THX-1138
Device: Nagra III – used to record the confessions to Uhm.
Im not 100% sure, but I think there may have been a Nagra used in Full Metal Jacket by the small film crew? Might have been a different recorder, or an entirely different film! It’s been a while since I’ve watched it…
The latest King Kong.
Found an old website that was trying to track the use of REEL to REEL machines in films. (Nagras included)
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http://juanjorodriguez.eresmas.net/r2rinmovies/r2rmovies.htm
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excellent! Thats exactly what the internet was invented for
You can see marion Cotillard in ” Little White Lies ” playing her Nagra, was it a 4.2 or 4S ?Can’t remember now. I knew the owner of the Nagra of Diva, …, Loulou ( Louis Gimel )je t’embrasse.
One of the SN range features at the beginning of Klute, if my memory hasn’t gone completely nuts!