Vintage Slots in Films and Newsreels
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If memory serves me right the early episodes were made by Central tv??widget2k4 wrote: ↑Sun Sep 17, 2017 9:28 pm yeah i seen that one, dont know if its the sega or the cowboy but something is putting me off the look of that one, might just write to the bbc and ask where that one is they used in auf wiedersehen pet haha, no doubt shoved in some warehouse and forgotten about
But has mentioned, probably loaned.
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Our mate Andy in Australia'land, while hiding from the blazing sun has been amusing himself by watching Laurel & Hardy.
His keen bloodshot eyes spotted something in "The Trail Of The Lonesome Pine (1937)" Although only visible from the back it certainly looks interesting. I'll plump for one of those do-hickies with playing cards instead of reels.
Anybody else?
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His keen bloodshot eyes spotted something in "The Trail Of The Lonesome Pine (1937)" Although only visible from the back it certainly looks interesting. I'll plump for one of those do-hickies with playing cards instead of reels.
Anybody else?
BP
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Southsea, Portsmouth, 1946. Slots briefly from 3:06
'60s - '70s amusement arcades
Brighton Palace Pier - Palace Of Fun
Entering the turnstile
Strolling down the pier
On the pier, 1935
Big Wheel and Dodgems, 1938
Saxony - Grip tester
BMCo - allwins
Fortune teller
Brenner - Radio Analyst
Bradshaw Walton - The Twins
Penguins game side stall
Posters dare visitors to enter a haunted house
'60s - '70s amusement arcades
Brighton Palace Pier - Palace Of Fun
Entering the turnstile
Strolling down the pier
On the pier, 1935
Big Wheel and Dodgems, 1938
Saxony - Grip tester
BMCo - allwins
Fortune teller
Brenner - Radio Analyst
Penguins game side stall
Posters dare visitors to enter a haunted house
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Good to see the Bradshaw version of 'the twins' with fluid as opposed to the Walton version with paper in the bottles.
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Actually both versions of the Twins were designed and manufactured by Alfred Leonard Walton (L. Walton & Co.) of Blackpool. I'm not sure why 'Bradshaw' popped into my head (corrected above).
The machine which really caught my eye in the film clips above is the fortune teller I labelled the 'Brenner Radio Analyst'. I've never before seen one in action and can find no reference to it in Paul Braithwait's book (he does list a 'Radio' under Bernard Brenner, which might be it). In fact I'm struggling to find any information or pictures of this machine. I seem to recall a couple of derelict ones at the EH, but cannot locate the images. John Brenner's speciality was large, floor-standing fortune tellers which appeared to be doing something highly technical, the Human Analyst probably being the most successful. Some reference would be made to Professor Rennerb's invention on the flash (Brenner backwards) and you had to grip and raise a cast chrome bone-shaped handle on the front (as the gentleman does above). If you released it during the 'reading', a card was delivered telling you to follow the instructions and try again. But where did I get the name 'Radio Analyst'? Am I correct in thinking it harnessed radio waves to predict the future just as Bradshaw's Green Ray harnessed the power of television?
The machine which really caught my eye in the film clips above is the fortune teller I labelled the 'Brenner Radio Analyst'. I've never before seen one in action and can find no reference to it in Paul Braithwait's book (he does list a 'Radio' under Bernard Brenner, which might be it). In fact I'm struggling to find any information or pictures of this machine. I seem to recall a couple of derelict ones at the EH, but cannot locate the images. John Brenner's speciality was large, floor-standing fortune tellers which appeared to be doing something highly technical, the Human Analyst probably being the most successful. Some reference would be made to Professor Rennerb's invention on the flash (Brenner backwards) and you had to grip and raise a cast chrome bone-shaped handle on the front (as the gentleman does above). If you released it during the 'reading', a card was delivered telling you to follow the instructions and try again. But where did I get the name 'Radio Analyst'? Am I correct in thinking it harnessed radio waves to predict the future just as Bradshaw's Green Ray harnessed the power of television?
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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
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
Donald Houston tries BAC Speak Your Weight machine at 6:40
Using BMR underground ticket machine at 0:45
Similar at 1:23
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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
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
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
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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' 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).
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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 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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With all the time in the world under lockdown, watched a classic old film The Loneliness of a Long Distance Runner with James Bolan and Tom Courtenay, great film. There is a scene where they go into a pub and play a Jennings Club Chief and on losing their money proceed to lift and bang the machine to drop the jackpot. Not sure this would be possible in the real world unless badly setup. Also an old War Eagle next to it....
Scene at end on YouTube clip....
Scene at end on YouTube clip....
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I remember the film coming out. It was popular into the '70s.
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The Jennings needs the coin entry polishing.
The tanner doesn't drop until the handle is pulled and baulked.
The tanner doesn't drop until the handle is pulled and baulked.
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Another film watched for the twentieth time and forgot there is a good few minutes of arcade footage Poor Cow from the late '60s at I think Bognor Regis amusements and pier. Found one clip at end of scene and more exists before this...
Think that is a Edwin Hall Dalek the kid is being put in.
Think that is a Edwin Hall Dalek the kid is being put in.
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Crompton's Cover the Spot in view.
Who made the vast change machine? A very familiar sight.
I've ridden on the speedboats, but not in Bognor. Only two had outboard motors, the others just followed.
(I had to be on one of the two, of course).
Who made the vast change machine? A very familiar sight.
I've ridden on the speedboats, but not in Bognor. Only two had outboard motors, the others just followed.
(I had to be on one of the two, of course).
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