Videos part 11

We are back with another pack of movie and TV clips with pinball and arcade machines. Prior video posts: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, and entry 5 onward has a link to one of these ZIP files of movie clips. Clips were trimmed by tweakbod.

The clips this time around:

1921 - The High Sign shooting gallery film
1928 - The Circus arcade scene
1934 - Murder in the Clouds pinball scene
1934 - Murder in the Clouds shooting gallery scene
1939 - Popeye The Sailor Customers Wanted cartoon
1941 - Marry the Boss's Daughter shooting gallery & pinball scenes
1941 - So Ends Our Night shooting gallery scenes
1944 - Sensations Of 1945 penny arcade scene
1944 - Sensations Of 1945 pinball scene
1946 - Suspense shooting gallery scene
1947 - Donald Duck Straight Shooters shooting gallery cartoon
1953 - The Band Wagon arcade scene
1956 - Nightfall coin-op scene
1956 - Written on the Wind jukebox & pinball scene
1957 - Witwer mit 5 Toechtern arcade scene
1957 - Witwer mit 5 Toechtern shooting gallery scene
1958 - Ascenseur pour l'échafaud (Elevator to the Gallows) pinball scenes
1959 - Pickpocket pinball scenes
1960 - The Girl in Lovers Lane pinball scene
1960s - Tang commercial with Bugs Bunny & Daffy Duck - Carnival shooting gallery
1961 - 花と嵐とギャング (Hana to arashi to gyangu aka Flower, Storm and Gangster) shooting gallery scene
1962 - Stahlnetz Spur 211 coin-op scenes
1963 - 下町の太陽 (Shitamachi no taiyô aka The Sun of Shitamachi) arcade & amusement park scenes
1965 - Red Line 7000 slot car scene
1965 - 投げたダイスが明日を呼ぶ (Nageta dice ga asu o yobu aka The dice you throw calls tomorrow) bowling alley scene
1968 - かぶりつき人生 (Kaburitsuki jinsei aka Front Row Life) shooting gallery scene
1972 - まむしの兄弟 懲役十三回 (Mamushi no kyôdai Chôeki jûsankai aka The Viper Brothers Prison Gang 13) arcade scene
1973 - Steelyard Blues pinball scene
1973 - The Three Musketeers trou madam scene
1974 - Freebie and the Bean bowling alley scene
1974 - The Four Musketeers trou madam scene
1975 - Best Friends pinball scene
1975 - ウルフガイ 燃えろ狼男 (Urufu gai Moero okami-otoko aka Wolf Guy) arcade scenes
1976 - Pinball Count cartoon
1978 - Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band arcade scene
1978 - Thank God Its Friday pinball scene
1979 - Arcade games in San Diego by CBS 8 San Diego [uploaded by chris85 on IA]
1980 - Pinball Summer [Pick-Up Summer] pinball scenes
1981 - MASH S10E05 Wheelers and Dealers pinball scene
1983 - BMX Bandits arcade scene

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More youtube links as well...

Elephant House Auctions gives us a grand 2-part tour of an upcoming auction, including gameplay footage from each machine.

 

2 extremely rare prewar pins...

1936 Ginger by Chicago Coin

and the remarkable 1933 Wahoo payout pinball from C.F. Eckhart & Company. This is an all mechanical payout game!

 

 

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Videos part 10

52 more video clips to share. Prior video posts: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and entry 5 onward has a link to one of these ZIP files of movie clips. These clips were trimmed by tweakbod.

In this batch we have:

1935 - Special Agent pinball scene
1937 - Little Red Walking Hood pinball scene
1939 - Lucky Night arcade scenes
1939 - NY World's Fair 1939 part 1 arcade footage
1939 - NY World's Fair 1939 part 2 arcade footage
1940 - They Drive by Night pinball scenes
1944 - Broadway Rhythm penny arcade scene
1944 - Tex Avery; Screwy Squirrel Happy-Go-Nutty viewer scene
1945 - Tex Avery; The Shooting of Dan McGoo slot machine scene
1945 - Waterloo Road arcade scenes
1946 - The Best Years of Our Lives pinball scene
1946 - The Dark Corner penny arcade scene
1950 - The Asphalt Jungle pinball scene
1952 - The Member of the Wedding pinball scene
1953 - The Yellow Balloon arcade scenes
1955 - Bad Day at Black Rock pinball scene
1958 - Der Pauker arcade scene
1958 - Elevator to the Gallows pinball scenes
1959 - Anatomy of a Murder pinball scene
1960 - 女獣 (Mejû aka Woman Beast) rooftop amusement park scene
1960 - 女獣 (Mejû aka Woman Beast) smart ball & pachinko scenes
1961 - Schlagerparade arcade scenes
1961 - The Outsider shooting gallery scene
1962 - Pop Goes the Easel amusement park scene
1962 - Pop Goes the Easel pinball scene
1963 - De valse noot pinball scene
1964 - Dead Ringer coin-op scene
1964 - Polizeirevier Davidswache arcade scenes
1965 - British Pathe footage [199047] arcade scenes
1966 - Alfie pinball scene
1966 - Masculin Féminin pinball scenes
1967 - Divorce American Style bowling alley scene
1967 - Games arcade scenes
1967 - 荒野のダッチワイフ (Kôya no Dacchi waifu aka Sex doll in the wilderness) arcade scenes
1968 - ネオン太平記 (Neon Taiheiki) bowling alley scene
1972 - The King of Marvin Gardens facade of Atlantic City Boardwalk with Pokerino sign
1972 - 一条さゆり 濡れた欲情 (Ichijô Sayuri Nureta yokujô aka Ichijo's Wet Lust) amusement park scene NSFW
1973 - Steelyard Blues pinball scene
1974 - Cani arrabbiati (aka Rabid Dogs AKA Kidnapped aka A Man and a Boy) pinball scene
1974 - The California Kid pinball scenes
1975 - Baretta S01E07 - The Coppelli Oath pinball scenes
1975 - Baretta S01E09 The Mansion pinball scene
1976 - Car Wash pinball scenes
1978 - Laserblast pinball scene
1979 - Das Ding arcade scene
1980 - Urban Cowboy coin-op scene
1981 - Filles DeLuxe pinball scenes NSFW
1981 - Roadgames pinball scene
1983 - BMX Bandits arcade scene
1988 - Crocodile Dundee II bar scene
1993 - Les visiteurs pinball scene
1995 - Before Sunrise pinball scene 

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Just a few more neat things youtube:

2 videos from coinop auctions, 1985 and 1987. Low resolution but still kind of neat. 

 

One of my favourite gameplay accounts demonstrates 1987 サーブ アタック (serve attack) by ミツフジ (Mitufuji)

 And some gameplay and a look inside a Wonders allwin from 1955:

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This blog stands in protest against the USA's horrific policies to try and eliminate trans people from society.  Trans people have always existed, in every society, but the administration has embraced a moral panic, declared a war against reality, and says that trans people can no longer be allowed to exist.

This blog stands in solidarity with all of the youth who are being terrorized by a fascist president who has declared them to be threats that must be eliminated.

 
Please read:  Appreciate your sex—or else: The Supreme Court’s strange new commandment by Riki Wilchins

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Videos part 7

You can find the six prior video posts here: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6.  You can find other large ZIP files of movie and TV clips to download in parts 5 & 6.

Here is another collection of clips prepared by tweakbod.  3.3 GB

1916 - Musty Suffer in Out Of Order coin-op scene
1927 - Casey At The Bat coin-op scene
1933 - The Women in His Life pinball scene
1941 - The Devil and Miss Jones pinball scene
1947 - It Always Rains on Sunday arcade scene
1961 - Eve and the Handyman bingo pinball scene
1961 - Mad Dog Coll coin-op scale scene
1969 - Joe Caligula Du suif chez les dabes pinball scene
1970 - Beyond the Valley of the Dolls pinball scene
1973 - Badlands coin-op scene
1973 - Holiday on the Buses arcade scene
1973 - Naakt over de schutting arcade scenes
1973 - The Final Programme pinball scene
1973 - The Laughing Policeman pinball scenes
1974 - Hot Summer in Barefoot County pinball scenes
1974 - Julia arcade scene
1975 - Good Times S2.E15 pinball scene
1975 - Mahogany arcade scene
1976 - Bobbie Jo and the Outlaw pinball scene
1976 - The Streets of San Francisco S4.E20 Clown of Death arcade scene
1977 - Summer School arcade scene
1979 - Charlies Angels S4.E9 Angels on Skates pinball scenes
1979 - Hardcore arcade scene
1979 - The Man Who Stole the Sun arcade scenes
1979 - The Man Who Stole the Sun heist scene space invaders
1979 - The Warriors pinball scene
1979 - Vegas SE01 EP16 Best Friends arcade scene
1981 - Arthur Arcade & toupie hollandaise table scenes
1981 - Bustin Loose arcade scene
1981 - CHiPs S4.E19 Vigilante arcade scenes
1981 - The Loveless coin-op scene
1982 - Fast Times at Ridgemont High arcade scenes
1982 - Tron arcade scene
1983 - CHiPs S6.E13 High Times arcade scenes
1983 - Getting It On arcade scene
1983 - Never Say Never Again arcade scene
1983 - Nightmares arcade scenes
1984 - Police Academy pinball scene
1984 - Streetwise arcade scene
1984 - The Brother from Another Planet arcade scenes
1984 - The Karate Kid arcade scenes
1988 - Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-O-Rama arcade scene
1989 - Next of Kin arcade scene
2010 - Tron Legacy arcade scene

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Operation of a Bio-Rhythm machine: 

Bill Heatherly shares a restoration of a Super 8 by Stoner

Gameplay of a World Series II wall game

 

Mike Hasanov takes us through an extremely rare and early Play Penny Polo that he has in for restoration

 

Restoration off a late 1940s/early 1950s pachinko machine with some great slow-motion video of the mechanisms!

 

 Two videos of 1970s smart ball gameplay

 

1963 Arizona by Bergmann, this German gun game requires you to insert the BBs

The Hat Trick is one of the more interesting allwins since it allows the operator to swap the coloured cups to determine what the playfield will be like, and tightly control the possible odds.

 

Great little video on a huge penny scales collection

 Pop-Up Criss Cross review

I really like this auction preview, where he walks through everything for sale and gives them a try. Gameplay footage of a number of great obscure machines in here.

 The fascinating Moorman's Par Golf circa 1936

 1932 Keen-Ball

 A great news piece from 1976:

 Clay takes us deep into Sea Hunt by Allied Leisure circa 1972

 

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This blog stands in solidarity with all of the youth who are being terrorized by a fascist president who has declared them to be threats that must be eliminated.

Please read: Where is the outrage over Skrmetti? On the far right's campaign to create uncertainty over gender-affirming medical care for minors — and the powerful institutions that helped along the way. by Chris Geidner

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scans: auction catalogues

With the Costa-Haskell (1997) catalogue already posted, here are 11 more auction catalogues.  A few more coming eventually, too.  Click on each name to go to Archive.Org to download the PDFs and/or CBZ files. (the original scans are in the CBZ, so get that if you want the highest resolution, then rename the file to .ZIP and unzip it)

Auction of Vintage & Classic Amusements and Fairground Relics Catalogue (Salisbury Auction Center, May 2005) (600DPI)

Mr Roy Shaw's Private Museum of Bygones Catalogue (May 16, 1995) (600DPI)

Auktion Lutz Eppard Münzautomaten 1890-1960 Catalogue (19.10.1991) (600DPI)

Bonhams Chelsea Entertainment Sale Catalogue (August 1992) (600DPI)

Christie's South Kensington Mechanical Music, Technical Apparatus, Advertising and Amusement Machines (April 12, 2001) (600DPI)

Mead Publishing Company Catalog Number 9 (November 1995) (600DPI)

Arcadia 87 Illustrated Auction Catalogue (October 18, 1987) (600DPI)

Bonhams Mechanical Music, Railwayana, Cameras, Magic Lanterns and Optical Toys Auction Catalogue (April 8, 2003) (600DPI)

Historische Münz-Automaten Auktion Catalogue (31.10.92) (600DPI)

Annual International Auction at Knebworth House, Knebworth, Herts Catalogue (August 9th, 1992) (600DPI)

Goldsmith Roberts Annual International Auction Catalogue (May 16, 1993) (600DPI)

Niche Mechanisms 006: spirals

The ball spirals further inward!  We're not talking about machines that use circles or curves or even spirals to launch balls, no these are machines where the spiral is everything.  

There is so much that can be done with spirals!  the ball spins around the spiral and the spiral comes up spiral.  But spiral all spiral spiral?  Spiral indeed spiral!  Spiral spiral, spiral spiral spiral spiral.

1929~ 自動販売球遊機 (An automatic vending ball game) [No. 17] by 日本娯楽機製作所 (Japan Amusement Machine Manufacturing)

1930 Little Whirl Wind by Peo

1930 Play Ball by Pace

Rialto (1964, Wulff)

I only now realize I never properly wrote about Rialto, so it's time to rectify that.

This is a slot machine made in 1964 by Wulff (Germany).  Slot machines became legal in Germany in the early 1950s, but that came with a set of limitations that made for some fascinating design choices.  Games could only offer a maximum 10x payout, and most importantly games needed to take a minimum of 10 seconds to play.  

So no putting in a coin and getting a result within 1-5 seconds, they had to design machines that offered a full 10 seconds of gameplay.  It is for this reason that I absolutely adore the 50s and 60s German machines and all of the small / quirky ways they innovated within this rule.

Niche Mechanisms 004: rotation

You turn a knob and the whole world rotates.  OK not the whole world, but the whole world under glass.  The platform shifts.  The playfield tilts with your delicate wrist movements.

Rotation is one of the fundamental mechanisms used in game design, going back to the skill games of the 1900s.  As with our other Niche Mechanism examinations, rotation is mechanism embedded throughout arcade history across the globe.  While it might not give the same kind of thrills in the 21st century, the inherent simplicity has helped it be resurrected endlessly for over a century.

Within the topic of "rotation" we are going to be breaking things down in to a few sub-categories:

1. Coin guidance
2. Ball guidance
1. Tilting labyrinths
2. Fire Escape style
3. Hill climbers
4. other ball guidance games

For all of these we are letting gravity do the work, and just adding a bit of rotation into the mix.

Let's get nerdy about arcade games.  We begin in Germany, thanks to the amazing work over at Alte-Spielautomaten.

section 1: Rotation - Coin Guidance

1909 Schlaumatz (smartass) by Athenia GmbH

Guide the coin down to the slot at the bottom of the wheel.  If the coin enters the slot it falls out at the bottom right, advances the ratchet wheel, which dispenses your winnings.  If you fall off the track, your coin is added to the payout coin stack.

Niche Mechanisms 002: catchers

One of the earliest coin-op game mechs, I've seen Catcher-style game examples ranging from 1900 to 2010!

You can't mess with perfection like that.

1927 Bajazzo SG & LM by Jentzsch and Meerz, Leipzig (Germany)

Let's get catching!