[Jukebox-list] 16mm Jukes

Ron Rich ronnnrich at yahoo.com
Tue Sep 15 16:35:08 PDT 2009


NO, NO !!! Itz NOT needed--besides, how many guys reading this know French !!! Ron Rich

--- On Tue, 9/15/09, Thomas Teeter <jukeboxrepairman at gmail.com> wrote:

From: Thomas Teeter <jukeboxrepairman at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Jukebox-list] 16mm Jukes
To: "Jukebox mailing list" <jukebox-list at lists.netlojix.com>
Date: Tuesday, September 15, 2009, 4:29 PM

All this talk about Scopitones make me want to find my Scopitone manual
which I have around here "somewhere"...  :)
It was actually a reprint of the original, plus additional info. I really
need to find it...

Thomas

On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 5:31 PM, Ron Rich <ronnnrich at yahoo.com> wrote:

> A "fan Club" for Scopitone  ?  WOW !!  I can't recall, but it seems that I
> had to install an audio update kit on them---for "magnetic" sound ?  I
> remember that whatever you attempted to do, it was a PIA to make it work-- I
> do remember that they would sometimes load the film so that the "optical"
> audio was out of sync. It seems that once this started happening, it was a
> major repair to bring it back to working "correctly" (for a Scopitone !).
> Ah, the memories----- Ron Rich
>
> --- On Tue, 9/15/09, James Alexander <jalexandercc at netzero.net> wrote:
>
> From: James Alexander <jalexandercc at netzero.net>
> Subject: Re: [Jukebox-list] 16mm Jukes
> To: jukebox-list at lists.netlojix.com
> Date: Tuesday, September 15, 2009, 2:48 PM
>
>
> Guys:
>
> If you are so inclined, there is a Scopitone owners' fan club somewhere on
> the web.  I accidentally stumbled across it recently, but didn't note the
> web address.
> To hear you tell it, these were less than pleasant to work on.   I remember
> seeing a Rowe Phonoview system in use at a local pub.    With this system,
> apparently the customer could select a song (on 45 vinyl) to play, but you
> couldn't select which of the film cartridges (video only--no sound) would
> get played.
> The few films I remember seeing were generic non descript scenes like
> landscapes, cars racing around a bend, pretty girls walking/talking on a
> streetcorner, etc.that could get safely paired up any number of song
> selections and look OK to the user.
>
> Jim Alexander
>
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