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PhonoPhotoGuy wrote: Mon Mar 25, 2024 5:42 pm 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

dzavracky wrote: Thu Mar 27, 2025 10:01 pm 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

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.

Roaring20s wrote: Sun Aug 24, 2025 11:28 pm 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

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…

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

He called it a music box.

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.