Vintage Slots in Films and Newsreels

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Destroying the slots


NYC Mayor Fiorello La Guardia has 1500 slot machines destroyed


Chicago Sheriff's Department pile-up confiscated slot machines and set them on fire, March 21, 1950


New York, 1935



Playing the slots, Miami, Florida, USA, 1930s










Lady plays Rol-A-Top, Miami, Florida, 1930s


Man wins on Rol-A-Top, Miami, Florida, 1930s


Playing Rol-A-Top








Passengers gambling aboard the SS Rex, Santa Monica, California, United States, 1939


Excerpt from propaganda film portraying the United States Marine Corps working and relaxing on small island base in South Pacific shortly before attack on Pearl Harbor, sitting at tables, drinking beer, playing slot machine.


1948, excerpt from film about gambling


Jennings slot pays jackpot


Two men play bandit, Las Vegas, Nevada, 1952


Gambling in supermarket, Las Vegas, Nevada, 1952


Slot machine players, Las Vegas, Nevada, 1952


Continued from above


Teenagers play bandits in amusement arcade

Pinballers


New York City Police confiscate and outlaw pinball machines


Pinball champ


Pinball champ continued


A man plays on a pinball machine in an amusement arcade


Army recruits playing pinball, Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri

[pennymachines]

Some of these Pathé newsreels we've seen before, but seems they're available on YouTube now.

Amusement machine exhibition, 1968



Crystal Room arcade, London









Stirling Moss & huge coin-op car racing game



Eggomatic

[pennymachines]

Donald Houston tries BAC Speak Your Weight machine at 6:40

Using BMR underground ticket machine at 0:45

Similar at 1:23

From Huntley Film Archives

[13rebel]

Clip of Milestones arcade Basingstoke on 'Flog it' series 14.21 Basingstoke 1. Slot interest from around 12 minutes to 13 minutes. Available on BBC i player for 28 days.

[ralph]

Shane 1958
Trade Stimulator on the bar , One of my favorite old Westerns, it's a must see .
Try not to look at the trade sim .

as Shane beats the shit out of the bad guys or shoots them!

[pennymachines]

Sartana visits the 'Gambrling Casino' at Poker Falls. Strange... Fey invented the one arm bandit in 1898, a few years after the Wild West was 'tamed', and yet these machines look much later. But in other ways the film is more or less a documentary of America in the late 1800s.

Can anyone identify these bandits?



Sartana demonstrates how to stop the reels in the jackpot position (permanently).



I Am Sartana Your Angel of Death (1969).

[treefrog]

Given this looks like a Italian spaghetti western, the machines are obviously Italian, the Ascots... also made the Astors as well... Yes, 1960s, only out by 80 years.

[pennymachines]

Following the box office success of Fistful of Dollars, Cinecittà Studios churned out hundreds of these westerns over a roughly ten year span, largely serving a domestic and 'third world' appetite for them. No set designer's credited, just a props department (S.E.T.). Funny they decided these (modern at the time) games would do.
The Complete Sartana

The one in the foreground is clearly, as you say, the Astor twin-jackpot Check-Mate, spayed grey, with the maker's badge covered over. Don't think I've seen the other, cruder-looking, models in the background - presumably by the same Italian maker?

[treefrog]

I keep watching so many old films on Talking Channel Tv and keep forgetting to highlight movies with slots as there are loads, one recently with really good shots of a vintage arcade, but forgot the name.

Another one was Left, Right and Centre with Ian Carmichael and Alistair Sims 1959, with a private illegal amusement parlour with repairs being done on old slots. Only picture I could find as no movie online I could find..