Vintage Slots in Films and Newsreels

pennymachines · Postby **pennymachines** » Sun Oct 21, 2018 7:44 pm

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 · Postby **pennymachines** » Mon Oct 22, 2018 12:05 am

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 · Postby **pennymachines** » Sat Nov 03, 2018 4:31 pm

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 · Postby **13rebel** » Fri Nov 16, 2018 7:26 pm

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.