Vintage Slots in Films and Newsreels

badpenny · Post by **badpenny** » Wed Oct 11, 2006 6:32 pm

Yeah .. OK ........ I'm bored, but look what I found on Google Video

1930s Mayor Fiorello La Guardia smashing slot machines as crowd watches

pennymachines · Post by **pennymachines** » Wed Jun 11, 2008 11:34 am

Very cheesy 1950s advert for Remco toy crane.

pennymachines · Post by **pennymachines** » Tue Jun 17, 2008 4:47 pm

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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slotalot · Post by **slotalot** » Tue Aug 19, 2008 11:54 am

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.

coin-op · Post by **coin-op** » Mon Sep 15, 2008 4:18 pm

arrgee · Post by **arrgee** » Mon Sep 15, 2008 5:00 pm

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

coin-op · Post by **coin-op** » Mon Sep 15, 2008 6:11 pm

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!

slotalot · Post by **slotalot** » Mon Sep 15, 2008 6:55 pm

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

badpenny · Post by **badpenny** » Tue Sep 16, 2008 9:23 am

Loved the Margate video Stuart, which one was you?

slotalot · Post by **slotalot** » Tue Sep 16, 2008 3:36 pm

Like you need to ask

....... I am always the good looking one!!!

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Margate 1950-1960

Popeye - Customers Wanted (1939) : Cartoon arcade

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