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
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
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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
Amusement machine exhibition, 1968
Crystal Room arcade, London
Stirling Moss & huge coin-op car racing game
Eggomatic
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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
Using BMR underground ticket machine at 0:45
Similar at 1:23
From Huntley Film Archives
Re: Vintage Slots in Films and Newsreels
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.
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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!
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!

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Sartana visits the 'Gambrling Casino'


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).
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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. 

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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.
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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?
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?
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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..
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..
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