| Scopitone Model 450 Film Jukebox | Circa 1960 | From the BMIGaming.com Historical Amusement Machine Series. This clip was shot using a iPhone 4S @ 1080i resolution in low light. About This Video : Some friends and I attended the multi-million dollar "Millhouse Collection" Auction in Boca Raton, Florida in February 2012, and during our tour of the amazing and very modern two level office building that housed the Millhouse brothers unique collection of vintage cars, music machinery and other rare oddities, we stumbled upon this very "funky" looking jukebox machine that to our utter surprise, also showed video content with the music.. Had we just discovered the precursor to today's modern internet video jukebox machines? We originally guessed this machine was from the 60's, but after looking at a manual we found on top of the machine, which was copyrighted in 1978, we were surprised that our guess was so off - Until we searched online for Scopitone, and confirmed our original guess (from the 60's) was correct. Scopitone jukeboxes are the 1960s ancestors of today's modern music video jukebox machines, with music content distributed on color 16mm film with a magnetic soundtrack, The first Scopitones were made in France in 1960, and the Scopitone craze spread throughout Europe (particularly in West Germany and England) before crossing the Atlantic to the United States in mid-1964. By the end of the 1960s, they were gone. HISTORICAL ITEMS ARE NOT AVAILABLE FOR SALE From the ... |
