The Talking Machine Forum — For All Antique Phonographs & Recordings

I don't know if this has been posted in the thread yet, but even if it has this is really cool.

"Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows" features an actual Berliner (Improved?) Gramophone being used by the arch-villian Professor Moriarty. The first shot of it clearly shows what I believe to be the proper sound box, and it's even used to play a record. I'm not entirely sure it was a Berliner record, but it sounded to me as if they captured the actual machine playing "Die Forelle".

https://youtu.be/ppccrPqOqHI

At any rate, one of the best illustrations of an actual talking machine I've seen used as a prop in any show.

The Walton's and the Baldwin sisters, episode, was on a Victor VI If memory serves me correctly.
When I was small we watched an episode with the Beaver and Wally and his parents in a cabin. There was an outside wooden horn victor there, too.

BillH_NJ wrote: Mon Nov 08, 2021 3:33 pm

AmberolaAndy wrote: Sat Oct 30, 2021 6:43 pm Vic II As seen on an episode of Little House On The Prairie. Music sounds fake and canned.

And the family was very advanced, since the books and show were set in the late 19th century.

Yeah I gotta assume that machine was about 15 or 20 years newer than when that show takes place…

Two sightings! An episode of Kojak and the film Tell Me You Love Me Junie Moon

Actor Colin Clive leaning on an Orthophonic 8-12 in a scene from the 1935 movie "Mad Love." Colin Clive also played Dr. Frankenstein 4 years earlier and shouted, "It's alive!"

If you have grandkids like I do I have to see Pixar movies over and over. I noticed that most new Pixar movies are full of antique furniture. Most movies have phonographs hidden away somewhere. Coco and Luca have Victor phonographs. There has to a antique buff in Pixar because I even noticed a singer sewing machine in Monsters University.

Might be stretching it but in some footage where Neil Young is shopping for his own bootlegs In 1971, apparently the record store was selling a then 50 year old Grafonola.

How often would antique machines pop up in record stores in the 70s?

On an episode of Family Affair. It’s obviously a 1960s turntable but it has this weird purple horn on it. What is it?

I don’t think it’s one of these Guild record players from the 60s?

Some sort of orthophonic machine in the music video for Black Velvet by Alannah Myles, interesting thing is this song hit #1 the week I was born, lyrics also mention Jimmie Rodgers on a Victrola. If that doesn’t say anything about me lol.

I recently saw a Victor Schoilhouse with the outside oak horn in an episode of My Little Margie. edisonplayer.