Phonographs in Movies...

[ChuckA]

Just came across this phonograph in a movie....Conchita Montenegro in the 1931 film The Cisco Kid..

I collect these old phono pictures when I find them and I liked this one you posted but with all the watermarks it was annoying to look at so I spent a little while running it through some video correction software and ended up with this:

Chuck

[ChuckA]

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

David,

Played around with software again and produced a very believable color version.

Chuck

[Roaring20s]

Today the wife and I saw the film Eden. Why is it so hard for the set director to find a period disc phonograph. Especially when it will be seen several times and close-up in several scenes. This is the only image currently available.

James.

[ChuckA]

Today the wife and I saw the film Eden. Why is it so hard for the set director to find a period disc phonograph. Especially when it will be seen several times and close-up in several scenes. This is the only image currently available.
James.

Here are the other 3 screen shots I found in the movie of the phono in question:

Chuck

[AmberolaAndy]

In the new Netflix miniseries about Ed Gein there are shots of what appears to be a VIC-IV or V with a spearpoint horn?

Kudos to Netflix for actually using an actual vintage machine and not a Crapophone! Even though the subject of the film is super gross…

[Roaring20s]

Bugs Bunny's Talking Machine suffered a shotgun blast in "Wet Hare", 1962.

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[JeffR1]

He called it a music box.

[m_nakamura]

In Kino no Tabi, (Kino's Journey —the Beautiful World), there is futuristic things but also stuff from the past, some of the androids in the anime & manga have 30's~ portable phonographs attached to them.

[m_nakamura]

We just finished reading & then watching The Great Gatsby in English! There's a lot of period music items, phonographs, player pianos, Theatre organs. The film & book are set in roaring twenties New York.

The only one which is ever explicitly mentioned is Gatsby's theatre organ, which is 'custom by built Wurlitzer'. In the book, it's just a regular grand piano.

Around the scene where they're at Tom's Manhattan apartment and Nick is bored and starts looking around after everyone is drunk you can see a Victor catalog (1921?) underneath several other books.

[epigramophone]

Which version did you watch? The 1974 (Robert Redford) or the 2013 (Leonardo DiCaprio)?
Towards the end of the 1974 film, Gatsby is relaxing by his pool and listening to one of those grand piano shaped "Operaphones".
I seem to remember that it was in Chinoiserie finish, but most surviving examples are in Mahogany.