Vintage Slots in Films and Newsreels

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Nice video and never heard of Colourfields, although was a huge fan of the Specials !!CHEERS!!
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Yes, great video. Filmed on the Palace Pier, Brighton - the vintage slots in John and Clive's 'National Museum of Penny Slot Machines' upstairs in the old theatre, before the Noble vandals ripped it down :evil:
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On you tube....vintage slot machines Magpie 1977. [ Sorry, I don't know how to do the link] Featuring John Gresham. Who made the first working model shown- Dennison? Love it.
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Yes, John Dennison.
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Dennison purchased this Levitating Lady automaton in France around 1908 and built the case himself. In the 1920's his daughters revamped it into the then more current deco look. An example of the original automata (pic attached) sold at auction approx 2012 for $220,000! I was lucky enough to work on the machine for Pat Gresham in 2012 and I found an operating info label attached inside that I carefully removed to discover the original Dennison business card on the backside. At the time she was hoping to sell the machine to a coin-op collector but that never happened and I believe it went to Europe to be restored back to the original format of non coin-op without cabinet.
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Another old film with an arcade scene, “The Yellow Balloon” from 1953. I only saw it at the end of the scene, but the film is being shown on Talking Pictures TV. Took a quick TV shot and could not find an online video.
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The full movie is here: https://allzer.com/movie/7vNa0MQd-the-y ... lloon.html (anti-virus checkers on |/XX\| )
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Machines not working .... all you need is Cathy :D

a rather sleezy 70s "Training" film from Bass Charrington, I found on the huntley film archives

https://www.huntleyarchives.com/pix/EL/ ... 6046_P.MP4

the only thing that was missing from this film was Benny Hill
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Bargain Hunt toy special broadcast today on BBC1 shows Darren Hesketh's museum at about twelve minutes from the start and lasts about five minutes. Should be on BBC i player in due course.
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I wonder if Cathy's training film taught anything other than soft Spam sells. Maybe we could induce Nursey to do a video for PennyMachines?? !OMFG!

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13rebel wrote:Bargain Hunt toy special broadcast today on BBC1 shows Darren Hesketh's museum at about twelve minutes from the start and lasts about five minutes. Should be on BBC i player in due course
It should already be on iplayer 13rebel, as this was the second time this episode of BH has been broadcast - although that is not unusual for the BBC these days. !!JUNK!!
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Yes it can be viewed by going to toy special 9.10.2020 series 56
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A rather nice floor standing strength tester on The repair shop BBC one 13/14 today. Paperwork dial shows A. Rowland and son and Improved strength test company, Cannon street on the cast iron body. Should become available on i player.
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John Gresham

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It's been a while since we talked about John Gresham.
There is a mention of this video on here, but I couldn't find a link to it, so here is one for those who haven't seen it before.
Magpie was so much cooler than Blue Peter.

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"Magpie was so much cooler than Blue Peter"

It certainly left me cold.
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Many thanks BP for posting this, I've never seen it before. A great film.
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bryans fan wrote: Thu Mar 24, 2022 9:47 amI've never seen it before.
Coin-op posted it here last September (10 posts back). :shock:
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Lovely machines, did all these end up in the US :#:
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treefrog wrote: Thu Mar 24, 2022 4:11 pm did all these end up in the US
No, from memory:
Bryans Disappearing Disc
Racer
Artillery Duel
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Caille Tiger - single reel cast iron trade stim
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