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Re: Wind-up Phonographs in Movies

Posted: Sat Jan 05, 2019 5:52 pm
by eighteenbelow
There's a great scene in the Coen Brothers' third movie, Miller's Crossing (1990), in which hit men come to kill mob boss Leo O'Bannon (Albert Finney) while he listens to "Danny Boy" on what appears to be a Victor II.

Re: Wind-up Phonographs in Movies

Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2019 7:27 pm
by CDBPDX
I was just watching an original Star Trek episode "A PIECE OF THE ACTION" and found a Brunswick console complete with a 3 way Ultona reproducer. Cool!

Sorry if this is a duplicate posting...

Cliff

Re: Wind-up Phonographs in Movies

Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2019 7:35 pm
by Indestructible
Nice catch.
I'm a big fan of Brunswick

Re: Wind-up Phonographs in Movies

Posted: Sat Mar 23, 2019 7:55 pm
by AmberolaAndy
An Edison Standard B as seen in the 1966 western “A Big Hand For The Little Lady” I’m not sure what year this takes place in but it seems a few decades too soon for a machine like this.

Re: Wind-up Phonographs in Movies

Posted: Sat Mar 23, 2019 8:35 pm
by VanEpsFan1914
That machine was playing a brown cylinder in that scene where the old Doctor is darning his socks... Talk about a mundane way to get into the photoplays.

I wonder if it was actually running and playing, or if they pumped in audio from another source?

Re: Wind-up Phonographs in Movies

Posted: Sat Mar 23, 2019 11:45 pm
by AmberolaAndy
VanEpsFan1914 wrote:That machine was playing a brown cylinder in that scene where the old Doctor is darning his socks... Talk about a mundane way to get into the photoplays.

I wonder if it was actually running and playing, or if they pumped in audio from another source?
The audio came from another source. It was more high fidelity than what you would hear from an acoustical recording with a 14 inch horn. Some canned singing trying to sound vintage.

Re: Wind-up Phonographs in Movies

Posted: Sat Mar 23, 2019 11:47 pm
by NEFaurora
Hey, That's Burgess Meredith.... He was the Penguin on the 1960's BATMAN TV Series...!!! It looks like there's a Edison Standard Model "C" in the pic..

:o)

Tony K.

Edison Collector/Restorer

Re: Wind-up Phonographs in Movies

Posted: Sun Mar 24, 2019 7:24 pm
by jukejunkie
Just by chance last night I was watching a deleted scene from Mel Brook's Young Frankenstein. A recording was made for Victor Frankenstein to be played at the reading of his will or rather the deceased read the will. It is an obvious Victrola Credenza which seems to have the lid missing since the record is turned over without lifting one.


It is also obvious why it was cut from the film.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jr8xYH9ork8

Kurt M.
Sunny WA State

Re: Wind-up Phonographs in Movies

Posted: Sun Mar 24, 2019 7:55 pm
by OrthoFan
jukejunkie wrote:... It is an obvious Victrola Credenza which seems to have the lid missing since the record is turned over without lifting one. ...It is also obvious why it was cut from the film.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jr8xYH9ork8

Kurt M.
Sunny WA State
I agree, that was pretty drawn out, and really not all that funny.

I did like the part where the needle catches at the end of the record, though.. :lol:

OrthoFan

Re: Wind-up Phonographs in Movies

Posted: Thu May 30, 2019 11:33 pm
by AmberolaAndy
A couple of shots of a Columbia Grafonola tabletop model from the 1985 film Out Of Africa.

Source is from a VHS tape recorded 25 years ago excuse the blurriness.