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Re: Wind-up Phonographs in Movies

Posted: Sat Jan 01, 2022 10:25 am
by JPow
Looks like a Columbia BI in "An American Christmas Carol" (1979) w/ Henry Winkler. It can be seen at different times throughout the film. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXa1JaLNq0w

Re: Wind-up Phonographs in Movies

Posted: Sat Jan 01, 2022 11:04 am
by Dischoard
I was watching Shanghai Knights with my kids, whoever was in charge of continuity must have been trying to get back at someone. Not only does a young Charlie Chaplin appear in the film (which is supposedly set in 1887... he would have been -2 years old) but this machine is seen in the background of Arthur Conan Doyle's office...
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It's shocking to see a film so blatantly anachronistic but I guess that's the way things have been trending in the past 20 years.

Re: Wind-up Phonographs in Movies

Posted: Sat Jan 01, 2022 11:20 am
by AmberolaAndy
Some sort of Victor machine in The Night Strangler (1973)

Re: Wind-up Phonographs in Movies

Posted: Sat Jan 01, 2022 6:32 pm
by AllenKoe
If I recall correctly, there was a Television Special (on PBS) in 1977, Season 1, episode 7, ('The Best of Families') with Sigourney Weaver and Victor Garber, which showed an Edison Spring Motor Phonograph playing a Lambert cylinder next to a Xmas tree (portraying New Year's scene of 1899/1900).

But I don't see it (yet) streaming on any platform...

Allen

Re: Wind-up Phonographs in Movies

Posted: Sun Jan 02, 2022 10:48 pm
by AmberolaAndy
AllenKoe wrote: Sat Jan 01, 2022 6:32 pm If I recall correctly, there was a Television Special (on PBS) in 1977, Season 1, episode 7, ('The Best of Families') with Sigourney Weaver and Victor Garber, which showed an Edison Spring Motor Phonograph playing a Lambert cylinder next to a Xmas tree (portraying New Year's scene of 1899/1900).

But I don't see it (yet) streaming on any platform...

Allen
That’s more accurate than I see in most films.

Re: Wind-up Phonographs in Movies

Posted: Sat Jan 15, 2022 9:35 pm
by AmberolaAndy
VV-50 missing its top and wrong reproducer in the 1962 film “Lilies Of The Field”

Re: Wind-up Phonographs in Movies

Posted: Thu Nov 09, 2023 2:37 pm
by Inigo
Just watching in YT a program about Agustin Lara, the mexican musician, a scene appears which seems to be part of an old film where I spot one of those period Electrolas or Grafonolas, which model is this?
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Re: Wind-up Phonographs in Movies

Posted: Sat Nov 25, 2023 3:16 pm
by poodling around
While were were watching the horror film 'Ouija - Origin Of Evil' this gramophone featured in a scene.

Does any-one know what it is I wonder ? Maybe a 'Victor' ?

Re: Wind-up Phonographs in Movies

Posted: Sun Nov 26, 2023 2:49 pm
by JerryVan
poodling around wrote: Sat Nov 25, 2023 3:16 pm While were were watching the horror film 'Ouija - Origin Of Evil' this gramophone featured in a scene.

Does any-one know what it is I wonder ? Maybe a 'Victor' ?
Cool! It's a Victor M.

Re: Wind-up Phonographs in Movies

Posted: Sun Nov 26, 2023 4:26 pm
by poodling around
JerryVan wrote: Sun Nov 26, 2023 2:49 pm
poodling around wrote: Sat Nov 25, 2023 3:16 pm While were were watching the horror film 'Ouija - Origin Of Evil' this gramophone featured in a scene.

Does any-one know what it is I wonder ? Maybe a 'Victor' ?
Cool! It's a Victor M.
Thanks JerryVan !