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These Grafonola sightings are astonishing! I may have to go back and watch "The Artist" again *just* to look for the machine. I remember that the 1920s costumes in that flick were not up to standard--for instance, over formal wing collars men were wearing modern-style adjustable bowties with the adjustment hardware clearly showing (not even the kind where the adjustment is hidden behind the neckband). So I can actually believe the producers might have settled for a 1950s horn machine that was probably lying around the prop shop, thinking we'd be none the wiser.

Maybe they had it lying around the prop shop *because* it had been used for The Lucy Show years before? I see the beginnings of a movie script here, told through the eyes of a phonograph. (Kind of like "Tails of Manhattan," where all the stories are told from the perspective of a tailcoat...)

(OT) - Here's a list of all the goofs of which the phonograph is one.

This is my favorite so far...

When a poster is shown of new talents of the sound era in 1929, actress Lucille Ricksen is among those listed.
Ricksen was in fact a silent screen actress who died in 1925.

What a hoot! And they caught this too:

"The 1950s-era record changer is shown "playing" a 1930s-era 78rpm disc, but rotating at only 45rpm - a speed developed for use with the 7-inch vinyl disc format which would not be introduced until 1949."

HOW could they not have noticed? Maybe it was a record of John McCormack and they thought he sounded best as a basso?