Posted 5 months ago
keramikos
(21 items)
Leapin' lizards, another VSM jumped out of a movie at me!
I've seen this movie before, and possibly even noticed that there was a sewing machine in it, but it didn't jump out at me until this most recent viewing. Why?
I suspect the answer is that the last time I saw this movie was before I became interested in VSMs. Oh, I had some basic familiarity with sewing machines, having learned to sew at my mother's knee, but I didn't become fascinated with the historical minutiae of them until I joined Collectors Weekly Show & Tell.
So yeah, VSMs would be a prime example of things that leap out of movies at me now, because of CW S&T. };-)
IMAGE CREDITS:
Images one through three are low-tech screen captures from a recent showing of "Mississippi's Burning" on Turner Classic Movies.
Image four is a copy of a drawing at the International Sewing Machine Collectors' Society website:
https://ismacs.net/singer_sewing_machine_company/model-29-leather-stitching-sewing-machine.html
WoW great catch!
The machine is a beauty!
I haven’t seen the movie but looking at picture 2 showing the handsome fellow’s work environment of chaos and gloom, and knowing the title of the movie, I have a sense of dread and want him outta there!
Watchsearcher, I hadn't realized until I looked more closely at the second and third stills, but it looks like there's another Singer model 29 behind the man using one.
As to your sense of dread: it's well-founded, but alas, the time for that fellow to get out of where he was had long since passed.
He was a low-ranking Klansman, and the feds were about to close in and put the squeeze on him:
Mississippi Burning (1988)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095647/
R. Lee Ermey, Willem Dafoe & Gene Hackman in Mississippi Burning (1988) Alan Parker
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nkfO62X1ys
https://www.fbi.gov/history/famous-cases/mississippi-burning
When was the time for him to get out of where he was? Dunno, but surely it was before he joined the Klan.