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I've searched the forum to see if this has been discussed. I had no luck.

Unless I'm mistaken, that looks to be a VV-XVI in It's A Wonderful Life with just a couple of discrepancies;

A shot of the front of the cabinet and inside the lid, there's even the key in the front
Another shot of the front with the layout of the motorboard. Except here the tonearm is silver BUT this is
the colorized version so that was most likely somebody who were going on the most common machines, the VV-XI et al. You can see the carving on the upper legs here, looks very much like my XVI. That reproducer though, anybody know
the origins of that? And of course I'd love to find that version of the song but I don't think it exists, I think it was recorded for the movie but
alas, they certainly didn't do film credits like they do now. I'll have to speak to Dimitri Tiomkin!

It was previously mentioned in the "Wind-up Phonographs in Movies" thread several years ago. See member New Yorker's post here:

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There is a forum member who uses the Mary smashing record scene as his avatar.

I NEVER watch colorized versions of films, or listen to fake stereo.

I've seen that soundbox somewhere... The holes in the front cover are characteristic of xxxx...
I believe the record she plays, which is the leit motiv song in many scenes of the film, indeed never existed out of the film. I think it was discussed some times at 78-L. When I started collecting 78s it was one in my list of Holy Grial records to get, only to discover years later that it didn't exist commercially. Same as Dooley Wilson's version of As Time Goes By...

I always thought this was an L-door XVI

AZ* wrote: Sun Aug 29, 2021 12:36 am
I NEVER watch colorized versions of films, or listen to fake stereo.

Probably for the best, I guess you don't have to get it right when colorizing, just make it look nice.

And this record https://www.discogs.com/Procol-Harum-Pr ... se/1094230 is the reason
that "Electronically Re-Processed" should have died with this album.

The reproducer is from a Brunswick Panatrope portable.

JerryVan wrote: Sun Aug 29, 2021 9:46 pm The reproducer is from a Brunswick Panatrope portable.

Interesting, is it a good fit? Seems something like that would need some sort of retro-fit.

GregVTLA wrote: Sun Aug 29, 2021 8:59 am I always thought this was an L-door XVI

It is a later L-door machine.

And that reccrod label? Seems one of those records made in a recording machine (recordio or something) as it seems to have those three holes in a triangle. Later, when Mary takes the record and breaks it against the machine corner, the label seems different: BTW, there seems to be a photo of the machine during a rest at filming work, Frank Capra leaning on it...

Inigo wrote: Sun Sep 26, 2021 5:47 am And that reccrod label? Seems one of those records made in a recording machine (recordio or something) as it seems to have those three holes in a triangle.
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Later, when Mary takes the record and breaks it against the machine corner, the label seems different:
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BTW, there seems to be a photo of the machine during a rest at filming work, Frank Capra leaning on it...
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that second picture looks awfully familiar...