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Scopitone (n):

1. a French "film jukebox" made in the '60s from surplus World War II airplane parts;

2. one of the music videos played on those jukeboxes.

[Via bOING bOING.]

Comments

[J]

I read a book a year or two ago called Jukebox Queen of Malta. It was set during WWII, and one of the characters built jukeboxes out of parts of planes, jeeps, etc. I thought the book overall was fairly bad, but the descriptions of the jukeboxes were interesting. Not film jukeboxes though - just good old-fashioned records.

[Ken Shultz]

They used to show these Scopitone videos on the Comedy Channel when it first came out back in the '80s; they were all hilarious...

...unless you're a Mod. Then you take them seriously and everyone who knows you thinks they're twice as funny as they would have been otherwise.

Does anyone else out there remember the Higgins Boys and Grouper?

[LarryJ]

Egad! Scopitone. There's a memory that might have been best left hazy. One of the bars in Laramie had one of these things when I was at U Wyo in the mid 60s. The films were precursors of the music video and cheesy beyond belief.

[SR]

Ken, I thought it was "Gruber" rather "Grouper", but yes I remember them. They used to host airings of the "Bob & Ray" television broadcasts from the '50s ("-lly Ballou here!").

[Stevo Threadkiller]

Ooh! http://www.bobandray.com

http://www.bobandray.com/catalog/

[Highway]

So is that where Mike Myers and Jay Roach got the idea for Fembots? Hel-LO Nancy!

[Ken Shultz]

I think there actually were "fembots" in an episode of "The Six Million Dollar Man" back when I was a kid. It wasn't as big as the Sasquatch episode, but it was big.

Now that's the term "fembot".

Myers lifted the fembot charachters from the classic 60's camp film "Dr. Goldfoot and His Bikini Machine"... which, if you haven't seen, is a real treat...for Cramps fans, maybe.

[Douglas Fletcher]

What the hell brought this back?

[PapayaSF]

Apparently the first film jukebox was the Panoram, invented in 1939:

http://hjem.get2net.dk/jack_stevenson/scopi.htm

This guy's got both a Scopitone and a Panoram for sale:

http://www.gameroomantiques.com/Panoram.htm

[fyodor]

Jesse,

I've seen a number of Scopitones, including one for Nancy's "Boots," even. But the one at the sight you linked to -- I don't think it was the same one I'd seen before -- was, um, well, uh, let's just say THANKS!!!

[kelly ripa]

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