Video Juke Box - 1940s
Mar 24, 2024 08:45:56 #
I never knew about this, but I saw one in a Charlie Chan movie. It's a juke box with a video screen.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pDERr449qo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pDERr449qo
Mar 24, 2024 08:50:30 #
jerryc41 wrote:
I never knew about this, but I saw one in a Charlie Chan movie. It's a juke box with a video screen.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pDERr449qo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pDERr449qo
I think it has a movie film projector inside rather than a video system.
Mar 24, 2024 08:54:06 #
BebuLamar wrote:
I think it has a movie film projector inside rather than a video system.
I can't imagine it being very reliable. I wonder how it changed what was projected. Maybe it had one long piece of film, and it had to fast-forward and rewind to get to the right one. In the movie I saw, there was nothing to watch on the screen, but a person at "headquarters" could see through the screen into the room. Odd.
Mar 24, 2024 09:05:12 #
jerryc41 wrote:
I can't imagine it being very reliable. I wonder how it changed what was projected. Maybe it had one long piece of film, and it had to fast-forward and rewind to get to the right one. In the movie I saw, there was nothing to watch on the screen, but a person at "headquarters" could see through the screen into the room. Odd.
They probably changed the film reel.
(One movie at a time.)
Mar 24, 2024 09:08:46 #
Longshadow wrote:
They probably changed the film reel.
(One movie at a time.)
(One movie at a time.)
I doubt there was a tiny person inside that box.
Mar 24, 2024 09:18:07 #
jerryc41 wrote:
I doubt there was a tiny person inside that box.
If they put the film in a cassette then it's not too hard to build the mechanism to change the cassettes.
Mar 24, 2024 09:19:13 #
BebuLamar wrote:
If they put the film in a cassette then it's not too hard to build the mechanism to change the cassettes.
This was in the 1940s.
Mar 24, 2024 09:20:43 #
jerryc41 wrote:
This was in the 1940s.
There weren't much in term of electronic back then but they were good mechanically.
Mar 24, 2024 09:22:41 #
BebuLamar wrote:
There weren't much in term of electronic back then but they were good mechanically.
Early experiments with television included a mechanical TV. Philo Farnsworth was an early pioneer in the development of TV.
Mar 24, 2024 11:15:45 #
jerryc41 wrote:
Early experiments with television included a mechanical TV. Philo Farnsworth was an early pioneer in the development of TV.
Early experiments with television included a mechanical TV. Philo Farnsworth was an early pioneer in the development of TV.
The first TV I witnessed was in my hometown, Bradley Beach, NJ in the display window of a "Philco" store. We would gather outside and watch it for hours. That was around 46- 47'? Then, our favorite "hangin out" fountain/sweet shop, "Francis Sweet Shop", bought a TV. We watched the World Series and devoured ice cream sodas and sundaes. Pretty good combination! Sorry to say it, but "those were the good old days"!
Mark
Mar 24, 2024 12:56:09 #
markngolf wrote:
The first TV I witnessed was in my hometown, Bradl... (show quote)
I remember those little TV stores with TVs playing in the windows. When I heard about huge flat TVs, I never expected to see them in my lifetime.
There's a very good movie about an immigrant family moving here after the War. Two of the sons opened a TV store. Look for "Avalon." I thought it was very good. It's interesting how the family changes over time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avalon_(1990_film)
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