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Author Topic: Cinebox film jukebox Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 03-14-2014 01:37 PM                     Sweet! Cinebox  |  IP: Logged Steve Moore Expert Film Handler Posts: 211 From: Leeds, West Yorks, UK Registered: Apr 2008 posted 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.  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 03-15-2014 06:21 PM                     I actually know the person that belongs to. Mark  |  IP: Logged Alan Plester Expert Film Handler Posts: 209 From: great yarmouth england Registered: Apr 2001 posted 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.  |  IP: Logged Leo Enticknap Film God Posts: 7474 From: Loma Linda, CA Registered: Jul 2000 posted 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.  |  IP: Logged

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