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Silent film about a couple trying to buy a gramophone and keep within their budget...
https://archive.org/details/5842_141111 ... ns_for_Two
Beans For Two... Saving for a gramophone
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Curt A
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Beans For Two... Saving for a gramophone
"The phonograph is not of any commercial value."
Thomas Alva Edison - Comment to his assistant, Samuel Insull.
"No one needs a Victrola XX, a Perfected Graphophone Type G, or whatever you call those noisy things."
My Wife
Thomas Alva Edison - Comment to his assistant, Samuel Insull.
"No one needs a Victrola XX, a Perfected Graphophone Type G, or whatever you call those noisy things."
My Wife
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Wolfe
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Re: Beans For Two... Saving for a gramophone
Cute picture, if a little bit rambling, even for a one reeler.
Elinor Field (who played the wife in the picture) lived until 1998.
Elinor Field (who played the wife in the picture) lived until 1998.
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Lucius1958
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Re: Beans For Two... Saving for a gramophone
Interesting: at least one machine looks like an Edison A/B-150... but those would have been a bit outdated by 1917/18, when I presume the film was made...
Bill
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Re: Beans For Two... Saving for a gramophone
Definitely an A/B 150. It's appears to have been played using a Kent type of lateral adapter, too.Lucius1958 wrote:Interesting: at least one machine looks like an Edison A/B-150... but those would have been a bit outdated by 1917/18, when I presume the film was made...
Bill
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Re: Beans For Two... Saving for a gramophone
Very cute film indeed and I'm glad Curt A posted the link! But I think it's missing the very last bit: she says " I know what!" about the phonographs and then we never see how they managed to dispose of one of the machines . 
But I love pre-1920 silents, and more seem to surfacing all the time.
Jim
But I love pre-1920 silents, and more seem to surfacing all the time.
Jim