Phonographs in Movies...

[TinfoilPhono]

Looks like a spruce horn. Major rarity!

[herrickpickups]

The newly discovered / re-mastered "Mocny Czwoviek" = A Strong man, Poland 1929 directed by Henryk. Szaro who perished in the Warsaw Ghetto some years after making this incredible Silent movie features an unknown Portable Gramophone in the Hotel room of Mr & Mrs Lugeza about the 29 minutes mark
it's on youtube in it's complete version , has English subs . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3dgc9ZUrOk
The Castle scene was filmed in chirsk, greater Warsaw & the Atheneum theatre dodged the levelling by the Luftwaffe & stands as a working theatre to this day.
Worth a visit if you are in this City ever. This movie turned up in an old Collection of Celluloid films in Belgium & was previously thought lost. The guys that did the soundtrack have really changed the mood of this silent movie that takes a bit of getting used to but is in my opinion, quite geniusly executed. Enjoy.

[Steve]

The newly discovered / re-mastered "Mocny Czwoviek" = A Strong man, Poland 1929 directed by Henryk. Szaro who perished in the Warsaw Ghetto some years after making this incredible Silent movie features an unknown Portable Gramophone in the Hotel room of Mr & Mrs Lugeza about the 29 minutes mark
it's on youtube in it's complete version , has English subs . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3dgc9ZUrOk
The Castle scene was filmed in chirsk, greater Warsaw & the Atheneum theatre dodged the levelling by the Luftwaffe & stands as a working theatre to this day.
Worth a visit if you are in this City ever. This movie turned up in an old Collection of Celluloid films in Belgium & was previously thought lost. The guys that did the soundtrack have really changed the mood of this silent movie that takes a bit of getting used to but is in my opinion, quite geniusly executed. Enjoy.

A great film indeed. The "unknown" portable is in fact an early HMV 101 with front winder dating from late 1925.

I've lost count of how many machines I've spotted in old black and white, obscure, silent or more recent foreign films. It must be several hundred or so by now.

[LimeTree99]

Spotted an Edison Idelia tonight! It came at just the right time because I was about to switch the movie off... the plot is sickening .

Cheers ,

David

I love seeing the older movies use machines that match the time period correctly. After all, having a cylinder machine in the home was probably a living memory to almost everyone over the age of 50 at the time.
It's also fun to compare the technological time gaps.
For example, the timespan between the Edison Ideal/Idealia and 1950 is 43 years. The exact same timespan exists between 2025 and the commercial release of the compact disc (CD) format.

[Steve]

Spotted an Edison Idelia tonight! It came at just the right time because I was about to switch the movie off... the plot is sickening .

Cheers ,

David

I love seeing the older movies use machines that match the time period correctly. After all, having a cylinder machine in the home was probably a living memory to almost everyone over the age of 50 at the time.
It's also fun to compare the technological time gaps.
For example, the timespan between the Edison Ideal/Idealia and 1950 is 43 years. The exact same timespan exists between 2025 and the commercial release of the compact disc (CD) format.

I see what you're getting at but the difference is that CD is still a current and viable physical format after 43 years whereas the cylinder had been defunct for say, 35 years in 1950?

[dzavracky]

Posting another movie tonight! This was a short crime drama that actually ends up focusing around two black wax cylinders that are worth $100k each. Unfortunately they meet a tragic end as the movie wraps up

Cheers,

David

[Lah Ca]

OK ... so this is a bit of a stretch ... a phonograph in a video game.

Time Flies

This is a low tech 2D game in which you are a house fly trying to complete your life ambitions/bucket-list-items before you get swatted. I have not played it, but it is has great reviews.

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https://timeflies.buzz

https://www.polygon.com/review/617424/t ... -hands-on/

"Time Flies is about being undeterred by life's limitations. It's about setting existential despair aside and experiencing as much as you can, leaving no bucket list item unchecked."

[AmberolaAndy]

Posting another movie tonight! This was a short crime drama that actually ends up focusing around two black wax cylinders that are worth $100k each. Unfortunately they meet a tragic end as the movie wraps up

Cheers,

David

Where they sent though UPS?

[Holodisc]

This isn’t from a movie, but I just spotted a phonograph in the new Battlefield 6 video game. For anyone curious, it was found in the map called Cairo.

[Ripduf1]

Following up (a bit late) to Henry's 2021 post:

"In Perry Mason Episode #188: The Case of the Bigamous Spouse, a VV-IX or XI (table-top model) appears in the funeral parlor scene, "playing" a recording of what sounds like a Bach chorale prelude (suitably quiet and soothing, although no ceremony is in progress). At one point, an actor reaches into the case and adjusts the volume (!) by appearing to turn the speed control knob!"

Here is and image. It is a IX. The actor is Barbara Hale AKA Della Street - Perry's secretary.

John