Vintage Slots in Films and Newsreels
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Vintage Slots in Films and Newsreels
Yeah .. OK ........ I'm bored, but look what I found on Google Video
1930s Mayor Fiorello La Guardia smashing slot machines as crowd watches
1930s Mayor Fiorello La Guardia smashing slot machines as crowd watches
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Coney Island 1952 including short Pleasureland Arcade section - Fortune Tellers, Mutoscopes, Silver Gloves boxers, Duck Shoot: Direct Link
Documentary about the Wurlitzer Factory, North Tonawanda, New York, showing the manufacture of jukeboxes, Circa 1950.
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Documentary about the Wurlitzer Factory, North Tonawanda, New York, showing the manufacture of jukeboxes, Circa 1950.
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Margate 1950-1960
This is a video of Margate and Dreamland in the 1950s-60s. as you get to the end of this film you will see some of your favourite vintage slot machines working in the old penny arcade.
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Well done Coin-op, as well as fond childhood memories of playing slot machines, one of my other passions in the early 1960s was to watch Popeye cartoons, what a great combination of nostalgia
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Re: Popeye - Customers Wanted (1939) : Cartoon arcade
Hi Arrgee, glad it ticked all the boxes for you...now if only I can find a you tube file for the scene in Waterloo Road (John Mills) where he enters the Lucky Star arcade (with a Novelty Merchantman crane, pinballs and Bmco's)...or the film with Carry Grant entering an arcade full of machines...or the one with a Wurlitzer 800 in an English arcade. The footage is out there!
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This photo is from a film called the Wrong Arm Of The Law,
Note the once ubiquitous YZ chewing gum machine. You inserted a penny and turned a knob to get your chewing gum. The knob had four positions. A marketing man of genius had come up with the idea of giving the customer an extra "free" pack every time the knob reached the the 3-o'clock position. Of course, everybody whose purchase brought the knob to 12-o'clock was tempted to put another penny in. This shop stood on the corner of Cowley Mill Road and Waterloo Road, Uxbridge
Note the once ubiquitous YZ chewing gum machine. You inserted a penny and turned a knob to get your chewing gum. The knob had four positions. A marketing man of genius had come up with the idea of giving the customer an extra "free" pack every time the knob reached the the 3-o'clock position. Of course, everybody whose purchase brought the knob to 12-o'clock was tempted to put another penny in. This shop stood on the corner of Cowley Mill Road and Waterloo Road, Uxbridge
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Like you need to ask ....... I am always the good looking one!!!
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And here is one for our American Cousins
This is a nice screen shot from the 1937 Laurel & Hardy film Way Out West,
Can anyone tell me the names of the four Vintage Machines in this photo ...
Anyway its back to the cutting room floor for me
This is a nice screen shot from the 1937 Laurel & Hardy film Way Out West,
Can anyone tell me the names of the four Vintage Machines in this photo ...
Anyway its back to the cutting room floor for me
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And yet more , This time from the TV sitcom Steptoe & Son, the first photo is from an episode called "Upstairs Downstairs Upstairs Downstairs" and shows a Caille type machine. the second photo is from an other episode and shows a Mutoscope. Both episodes are from 1974. Please enjoy
I must try to get out more!
I must try to get out more!
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And once again!
This time from the TV sitcom "Auf Wiedersehen Pet" . The first photo shows the late Pat Roach (Bomber) Playing what I think is a German pinball machine in the local club
The second photo is of Bill Paterson (Ally Fraser) playing a Mills bandit in his office
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This time from the TV sitcom "Auf Wiedersehen Pet" . The first photo shows the late Pat Roach (Bomber) Playing what I think is a German pinball machine in the local club
The second photo is of Bill Paterson (Ally Fraser) playing a Mills bandit in his office
More to follow!
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Hi , Thanks for letting me know the machines name and make, its nice to know someone is taking an interest in my posts, I hope to find more......
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Hi ,
I am not sure if this is a real vintage crane or a stage prop made for the film .
It is from the 1950s Norman Wisdom Film "One Good Turn" which I think was set in Brighton....anyway I hope you enjoy it.......
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I am not sure if this is a real vintage crane or a stage prop made for the film .
It is from the 1950s Norman Wisdom Film "One Good Turn" which I think was set in Brighton....anyway I hope you enjoy it.......
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I seem to recall that a few episodes of Steptoe & Son had allwins in them. They were often to be seen on the staircase landing as Harold or his dad came in the front door....so keep looking!slotalot wrote:And yet more , This time from the TV sitcom Steptoe & Son,
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Hi Coin-op , Thanks for the tip, next time I am down Oil Drum Lane I will call in and have a look :thumbs: .
In the meantime have a look at these two beauties . The machines that is ;) , this photo is from the 1996 BBC comedy "Oh Doctor Beeching", the scene was shot in the buffet refreshment bar at Hatley Station.....
In the meantime have a look at these two beauties . The machines that is ;) , this photo is from the 1996 BBC comedy "Oh Doctor Beeching", the scene was shot in the buffet refreshment bar at Hatley Station.....
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Hi Slotalot, you must be beavering away night and day searching for these !!
Wasn't that the film where he systematically blew up the town ? or am I thinking of another N.W. film.It is from the 1950s Norman Wisdom Film "One Good Turn" which I think was set in Brighton....
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Hi Arrgee , Thanks for your comments, The film you are thinking about must be the 1960 film "There was a crooked man" This was filmed up north in Darwen and stared Norman Wisdom & Alfred Marks, and as far as I know this film was never put on general release and no clips are available ( unless someone knows different)
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