Hoopers screen stars help

[treefrog]

Yes it does for a cash box... Also yours looks like original paint - even more appeal to me. Looked good. Think the red one above looks to have been repainted...

[widget2k4]

Mine wasn't in original paint. It had been painted over. The colour underneath was a dark blue.

[treefrog]

There you go, shows what I know... Did not look recent paint though... Still looked good.

[aristomatic]

The red one pictured I only had for a very short time. I didn't repaint it and cannot remember if paint was original or not, so not much help. I only ever had that one too. Not a machine you see too often really either in person or on the net for that matter.

[gameswat]

Post split moved & merged - Site Admin.

Just happened to be watching the 1972 Woody Allen film "Play it again, Sam". His character is a film reviewer who is also obsessed with classic black and white films, especially those of Humphrey Bogart. So his SF apartment is filled with old movie posters - and a Boland Screen Stars single reel slot! This seems to be almost the same as the machine pictured below but with added round cabinet sides and a longer cabinet, maybe an added lower cashdoor? And such a unique machine would be easy to spot today, though I bet currently sitting in the US somewhere anonymously? With a release date of 4 May 1972 the principal photography must have been in 1971. And of course this was just when Britain went decimal so I'm sure that lead to so many UK machines being exported from that point onwards.

These stills are at the 23 minute mark.

I now see the almost same machine was pictured earlier in this correct Hoopers post by Aristomatic, though without the fully curving wood sides.

[treefrog]

Nice find, I keep meaning to show movies and programs I see with machines in as it is regular. This is a Hoopers machine, not Bolands of course.

[gameswat]

Haha, not an of course to me as I know very little about these machines. Thanks Tree. I guess needs to be moved to a relevant thread then mods please? * Done - Site Admin.