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Just imagine the man in charge of decorates getting through this forum to get help for appropriately assembling that unit, getting involved more and more. . and another hobby fan!
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It seems like the suitcase portable VV-2-55 enjoyed a long popularity, extending beyond its 1920s heyday. I bought one at a Maryland Antique Radio mart a few years back. Not only was the instruction sheet in there, so was a service ticket from the 1940s. Here's a film clip from the Goldwyn Follies from 1938 where tenor Kenny Baker "plays" the little Victrola and sings along (in reality the studio orchestra is playing, of course). "Love Walked in" was to become one of the standards in what's now called the great American songbook, and Kenny gives us a very accomplished rendition here.

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Call of the Wild with Harrison Ford has a Fireside with cygnet horn on a dog sled. A few minutes down the trail it just disappears. Must have fell off. I think I will go look for it. It's better than gold. Not time period correct but they are seldom right when it come to movies.

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There's a scene in Netflix's "Babylon Berlin" (season 3, I believe episode 8)where one of the villains, in a fit of rage, throws what appears to be an HMV Melba phonograph through a second floor glass window to it's ultimate destruction below.

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I was playing this xbox game with my daughter and seen this fake phonograph and record cabinet.
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How beautiful! These cartoons have a Disneyesque appeal!
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The game Travis & his daughter are playing is called Cuphead. Known as one of the most difficult recent games it was designed by hand and animated by hand, using inspiration from the old ComiColor cartoons of Ub Iwerks. The soundtrack is available in an album of 33rpm LP records but they are bound to look like an album of 78s.

I don't do video games, or even television, but I know cool stuff when I see it. Lots of people my age are turning to the 1930s for design and aesthetics.

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Yes, even film posters in the streets and others are starting to look vintage!
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Raphael wrote:There's a scene in Netflix's "Babylon Berlin" (season 3, I believe episode 8)where one of the villains, in a fit of rage, throws what appears to be an HMV Melba phonograph through a second floor glass window to it's ultimate destruction below.

Spending a lot of time indoors these days.......


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Let's hope it was a CGI Melba!

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