Horn used for recording in the thirties?

[Henry]

If the horn just had the 'Monumental Pictures' logo on it she could be Lina Lamont singing to Debbie Reynolds dubbed by Betty Noyes "'N I cean't steannim!" No no Miss Lamont, round tones, round tones...

I believe Miss Lamont (brilliantly played by Jean Hagen) also says, "'N' I cahn't steannim," which makes even funnier the point that she's totally unsuited to "talkies" (her awful speaking/singing voice and "tin ear") and can't learn how to fix it.

(That's from the days when movies still had songs worthy of winning an Academy Award.)

...and from the days when there were movies worthy, etc., etc.

[Chuck]

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[mrphonograph]

well chuck the laugh box is the same apparatus as seen in 1960-70s talking dolls
the laugh box was introduced as a novelty toy in the 1950s the 1950s version had a pull-string mechanism and was concealed in a red or green velvet bag i've seen adds but i never encountered the actual thing
the laugh box most of us remember was a battery powered device in a bag with a clown face
it was produced from about 1965 to 1989 from that time on it was a chip that did the laughing and the size is quite a bit smaller than the earlyer version the chip version is still beeing made

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the chip version of today

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greetings
tino

[Inigo]

Hey... as things gramophonic, I've also been collecting these small devices and their little records for years. Specially during the nineties I came across several of those toy record players, and I managed to assemble a collection of fifteen records.
I started with my own laughing bag. I've day I dismantled it just to discover that little charming battery powered acoustic gramophone. First experiment was to turn the record and see what was in the other side, and it was baby crying...! From that I continued, and even acquired the famous toy victrola by Poynter Toys, which I bought from a lady in Florida through eBay. The records played by that machine are smaller, hill and dale. This is a true toy gramophone with its sound box which has a Celluloid diaphragm, arranged as in a Pathé machine. It is charming...!