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movie hats that inspired you...

scottyrocks

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Ive always liked the way Spencer Tracy wore this fedora in Bad Day at Black Rock:

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Neophyte

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I liked Spencer Tracy in the hat. But I could just never buy an overage, overweight one-armed man beating up all the roughnecks in that town. It was just preposterous, so I am blocked from really liking that movie.

Well I meant the hat. I've never seen the movie, but if it's anything like you describe, I don't think I could watch it. :)
 

rue

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This isn't really a movie, but it's a short with a lot of hats in it, staring Burns and Allen. I thought y'all might like it, but I wasn't sure where else to put it [huh]

Your Hat (1932)

[video=youtube;sz70pJznM18]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sz70pJznM18[/video]
 

danofarlington

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Another hat I like is Peter Lorre's lid from M (Fritz Lang, 1931).

m_01.jpg

Attention to detail! The next shot is just a few seconds after the first. Note the different crease in the hat: The reverse taper from the first image is now gone. The back has been raised cosiderably while the front pinch now has a very pronounced kink to it... :D

Well, he was pretty worried at the time, so I assume it's the result of fast-flowing thoughts bubbling up in the gunfight.
 

monbla256

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I've also always liked that white William Powell Thin Man hat. I hope to get one like it some day. The contrast with a dark suit is very good. I like it more because I see few like it.

I'd be willing to bet that his hat was NOT a white one. Probably more of a light grey, as if you look at his white shirt, the hat would have similar hues & brightness of "color" in B&W film. Been shooting B&W film for over 40 years now and White does not photograph like that. :)

Onward thru the Fog:)
 

danofarlington

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I'd be willing to bet that his hat was NOT a white one. Probably more of a light grey, as if you look at his white shirt, the hat would have similar hues & brightness of "color" in B&W film. Been shooting B&W film for over 40 years now and White does not photograph like that. :)

Onward thru the Fog:)

Maybe a bone or cream color then? I just don't see it as light gray--too bright in the movie. I don't really know the answer, but it's got to be in the very light family. I wonder if Art Fawcett could speculate about its real color, given B&W. The importance of knowing the real color, is getting one made like it some day.
 

Torpedo

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BTW, in the movie "Bad Day at Black Rock," Lee Marvin wears an Open Road-like hat with the Ft. Worth crease that has been discussed elsewhere, otherwise known as the foreman's crease.

...TCM

I have missed those Ft. Worth/Foreman crease reference threads. Could you point to them?

BTW, I do like Conan's hat, too. Surely because its proportions look classic, and not modern.
 

danofarlington

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I have missed those Ft. Worth/Foreman crease reference threads. Could you point to them?

BTW, I do like Conan's hat, too. Surely because its proportions look classic, and not modern.

This is it.
http://www.thefedoralounge.com/showthread.php?53780-Ft.-Worth-Stock-Show-hats
Yes, the Conan musician's hat looks classic. It could be a vintage hat. But many modern hats look very similar, I have seen, and if a hat looks crisp like that I am inferring it's new. Given their availability, I think that's probably what it is. But it does look classic, that's true.
 

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