traditional knives in movies

Scout's box of special things in the opening credits of To Kill A Mockingbird. It looks like Boo Radley left her a little folder of some kind.

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btb01 said:
My wife and I started watching the new Netflix show Ozark today. I noticed this big scout-type knife with a bail in the second episode.

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Looks like a beefy knife -- three springs, with a liner between each.

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Appears to have a sheepsfoot (or similar) main blade.

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Maybe a 3-blade electrician?
 
btb01 said:
My wife and I started watching the new Netflix show Ozark today. I noticed this big scout-type knife with a bail in the second episode.

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Looks like a beefy knife -- three springs, with a liner between each.

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Appears to have a sheepsfoot (or similar) main blade.

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Cool, kinda looks like those 3-blade Klein utility knives. (Oops, I see where someone already called that)
 
In Coroner Creek, not even 7 minutes into the film the Apache(?) hands the Indian scout a marbles ideal knife with a stag handle. My first thought was "that wasn't around until the 1900's!" But then I remembered that many of these movies will be set in the 1870's-1880's and be using Winchester 92's. Or be set in the Civil war and be using 1873 trapdoors... but they have some pretty nice knives in them.
 
Here's one I spotted in the movie Fried Green Tomatoes. The character called Big George takes out this big Colonial Master Barlow and tests the edge against his thumbnail during a tense scene.

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I did a brief search to see when these knives would have been made, but couldn't find anything. I have a feeling that it may be an anachronism in the film, which is set in the late 1920s or early 1930s. If I had to venture a guess, I'd say that Master Barlow probably wasn't around until the 1950s, maybe even later, but that's just a guess. Does anyone know for sure when Colonial produced these?

Oh, and Big George is played by an actor named Stan Shaw.

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Probably a different Stan Shaw than the Sheffield cutler, though. :D
 
Here's a little monogrammed metal-handled traditional folder that appears in the HBO series Vice Principals.

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You can see the tang stamp in this shot (it just says "Stainless Steel").

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You can't really tell in any of the screenshots, but I assume the knife is a lockback. It looks like many small lockbacks I've seen before, and when it's opened in the scene it clicks like a lockback (although that sound was probably added by a foley artist in post-production rather than actually captured when the scene was filmed).
 
I always enjoy your contributions to this thread Barrett :)

btb01 said:
Oh, and Big George is played by an actor named Stan Shaw.

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Probably a different Stan Shaw than the Sheffield cutler, though. :D
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Missed this before though! :D :thumbsup:
 
btb01 said:
Thanks, Jack. (I thought you'd appreciate the Stan Shaw thing.) :D

I was watching the movie Adaptation. today and noticed what appears to be a Buck 110.

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An excellent movie Barrett, well spotted :) :thumbsup:
 
btb01 said:
Thanks, Jack. (I thought you'd appreciate the Stan Shaw thing.) :D

I was watching the movie Adaptation. today and noticed what appears to be a Buck 110.

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Definitely a buck 110, and they obviously bought it new just for this because it doesn't take more than 2 days of handling to get bolster patina and I doubt this guy is the type to keep his knife polished with brasso.
 
There's a brief scene in the film Open Range where Robert Duvall uses a sizable folder with what appears to be either a sheepsfoot or maybe a pruner blade.

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I hope that guy gets his come-uppance for burning all that alcohol.
Those are some nice knives.
Does everyone have such a heavy cudgel because they were used for something else and therefore available?
 
Saami reindeer herders had leuku as a general survival tool, making firewood, butchering reindeer and everything in between. Usually they also had a smaller knife (stuorra niibi = big knife and unna niibi = small knife).
 
Oh, those cudgels. Reindeer were collected for marking and butchering into enclosures made of poles. And that construction of fences is common all over nordic countries. People used those poles for fighting also, for example in northwest Finland during the end of 19th century there was an era of lawlesness and violent crime. Young men gathered for fights between rival "gangs" and villages. When local people got tired of theft and harassment grown up men sometimes gathered patrols that used also those fence poles to keep the peace.
 
HFinn said:
Oh, those cudgels. Reindeer were collected for marking and butchering into enclosures made of poles. And that construction of fences is common all over nordic countries. People used those poles for fighting also, for example in northwest Finland during the end of 19th century there was an era of lawlesness and violent crime. Young men gathered for fights between rival "gangs" and villages. When local people got tired of theft and harassment grown up men sometimes gathered patrols that used also those fence poles to keep the peace.
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So they were used like quarter staves?

I guess Clint was right; there's nothing like a good piece of hickory. (or birch, oak, ash, or whatever grows there!)
 
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