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Posted by Brad Miller (Member # 2) on 03-14-2014, 01:37 PM:

Sweet!

Cinebox

Posted by Steve Moore (Member # 4753) on 03-15-2014, 07:13 AM:

that's pretty amazing; where is or was this used. there is not much description for it on the video.

Posted by Mark Gulbrandsen (Member # 72) on 03-15-2014, 06:21 PM:

I actually know the person that belongs to.

Mark

Posted by Alan Plester (Member # 852) on 03-16-2014, 08:28 AM:

First saw one of these at a holiday camp when I was about 12yrs of age My first job in the world of work was for a fruit machine company, and the company had one, that ran on a cassette type of thing, if my memory serves me correct, it was made by AMI it did not work very well.
The last time I ever saw one must have been 20yrs ago at a specialist museum place just outside Leamington Spa sadly not working but under repair, made my heart skip a few beats just looking at it.
The museum is I think still going and does a proper film presentation with a wurli doing all the sound, really good afternoon out.

Posted by Leo Enticknap (Member # 534) on 03-17-2014, 04:07 PM:

Looks like a similar machine to the Panoram and the French Scopitone film jukeboxes.

I once worked in a theatre that had a Panoram in the bar as a novelty item. It consisted of an RCA 16mm projector with what was essentially a miniature version of the Kinoton endless loop platter. If I remember correctly, it held about 20 minutes of footage, i.e. four or five "music videos". You couldn't select an individual film: you just inserted a coin (I think it was a nickel, but can't remember) and were shown whatever was the next one on the loop. Because it used back projection, the films had to be DIN prints. The original prints were diacetate or butyrate.

Interestingly, triacetate stock kept jamming in the platter mechanism, but polyester worked fine. We eventually had some polyester reversal dupes made of the prints that had been in it at the time we acquired it, and the last I knew the machine was still running happily.