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	Scopitone - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Scopitone was a trendy invention of the 1960s, a jukebox with a 16 mm film component, the forgotten forerunner of music video.
		The first Scopitones were made in France around 1960: Johnny Hallyday covered Los Bravos' "Black is Black" (as "Noir c'est noir") and the "Hully Gully" was danced round the edge of a French swimming pool.
		The Scopitone fad spread to West Germany, where the Kessler Sisters burst out of twin steamer trunks to sing "Quando Quando" on the dim screen that surmounted the jukebox.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Scopitone (284 words)

	Cabinet Magazine Online - The Clean Room/ Love machines: unwinding the technology of the Scopitone
		Scopitone players, bulky forerunners of the video jukebox, were mechanical, coin-operated vending machines outfitted with 30" viewing screens and internal mechanisms that delivered a selection of short 16-millimeter films on demand.
		Although the Scopitone's mystique as an icon of popular entertainment was fading by the end of the 1960s, within a few years a large proportion of the original CAMCA projection mechanisms inside Scopitone players were reassembled for alternative ideological uses.
		Scopitone machines were planned originally for family-friendly venues like pizza parlors and bus terminals, even if they also surfaced in more swinging commercial spaces like after-hours nightclubs and bowling alley cocktail lounges.
	www.cabinetmagazine.org /issues/2/cleanroom.php (1271 words)

	westword.com \| Music \| Video Obscura
		I Cried for You, a Scopitone landmark showcasing lounge crooner Sonny King, is a case in point.
		In the 1999 article "The Jukebox That Ate the Cocktail Lounge: The Story of Scopitone," touted by Haertling as the definitive chronicle of the device, journalist Jack Stevenson acknowledges that the Scopitone wasn't the first contraption of its type.
		Dubbed the Scopitone, the apparatus had room for 36 films that could be specifically chosen by paying customers, just like jukebox 45s, for the cost of a quarter.
	www.westword.com /issues/2002-07-11/music/music2.html (876 words)

	scopi
		Scopitone was also unpopular with local musician's unions since the devices occasionally succeeded in putting piano players and other live performers out of business in some spots.
		Scopitone was taking on a new identity as it underwent a metamorphosis from a novelty dependent on French product to a solid "exposure medium" for popular American recording stars who were beginning to see the light.
		Scopitones were geared to pure entertainment, not any kind of faithful recreation of the pathos of the songs.
	hjem.get2net.dk /jack_stevenson/scopi.htm (8012 words)

	Scopitone Archive (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Scopitone films are the 1960s ancestors of today's music videos.
		They were distributed on color 16mm film with a magnetic soundtrack, and were made to be shown on a Scopitone film jukebox.
		The first Scopitones were made in France around 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.
	scopitone.tripod.com (293 words)

	Portland Mercury - Film - Behind the Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The Scopitone, popular in bars and lounges, was a small-screened jukebox/16 mm film player, on which people could watch video-like films and listen to music.
		The Scopitone films seem like a product of the '50s rather than the '60s; everyone is impeccably dressed, singing about love, and vaguely infusing sexuality in the form of swimsuits and short skirts--but nothing directly addresses fornication like the hippie/Woodstock '60s.
		Ironically, however, the reason Scopitone went out of business is that they were sued by the Back Porch Majority for the lewd sexual content added to their video of "The Mighty Mississippi." That, and alleged Mafia financing.
	www.portlandmercury.com /portland/Content?oid=26322&category=22133 (415 words)

	Le Scopitone!
		A cross between a jukebox and a 26-inch color TV, was the result of technology developed for use during WWII, turned by CAMECA to civilian use, projecting 3-minute Scopitones—song films—for a quarter to tipsy audiences in clubs and bars.
		American Scopitones bordered on soft-core porn (for the early 60s, that is): chicks gyrated wildly (and not even in time to the music) wearing either the ubiquitous bikini, a similarly skimpy outfit or sent through a modified striptease, ending up in even less.
		The Scopitone producersU odd interpretations of music yielded not a few stereotypes of all kinds of other culture, especially American, but could be so disjointed to be curiously interesting.
	www.stim.com /Stim-x/9.4/scopitone/scopitone-09.4.html (966 words)

	Joi Lansing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		She also starred in short musical films for the Scopitone video-jukebox system, which anticipated MTV by decades.
		Some of these films, particularly "The Web of Love", have gone on to become camp classics.
		She died of breast cancer in 1972 at age 43.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Joi_Lansing (219 words)

	Scopitone Films on Video. Scopitones Captured Important Early Rock n Roll Artists in Color! Scopitone Films on Video.
		Scopitone films are the early 1960s forerunners to today's music videos.
		Because Scopitones were filmed in color, they provide an opportunity to see artists more vibrantly than the fl and white standard of a 1960s television broadcast or B-movie.
		In addition to Scopitones, there were also Soundies, Snader Telescriptions, Official Films, etc. While these other "music videos" did not play on a Scopitone Jukebox, they are similar in production quality and are significant in musical history.
	www.thevideobeat.com /scopitone_films.htm (257 words)

	ScopiBlog
		This blog is intended to document the restoration of a collection of Scopitone 16mm film jukeboxes and their media.
		The Scopitone machines to be restored came almost completely loaded with films.
		Upon closer examination, however, you learn that you can't do that - the design of the Scopitone is such that the reels are integrated into the mechanisms and one is supposed to load/unload films from other storage reels.
	mysite.verizon.net /resp5elv/2005.08.01_arch.html (541 words)

	[Tikievents] Secret Cinema and International House co-present FRENCH POP Mini-Fest
		This will be followed the next=20 week by SCOPITONE PARTY, which explores the phenomenon of France's unique=20 film jukebox Scopitone, complete with numerous song clips and even a slide= =20 talk on the history of the film jukebox (this is a repeat of a=20 much-requested Secret Cinema program from 1999).
		SCOPITONE PARTY (1963-8, France and U.S. Dir: Anonymous) SCOPITONE PARTY is a unique collection of music films from the early and=20 mid 1960s.
		SCOPITONE PARTY will include performances by such well-known names as Dion,= =20 Nancy Sinatra, Paul Anka and Procul Harum, plus a Robert Altman-directed=20 clip for a Tijuana Brass song.
	slick.org /pipermail/tikievents/2002-July/000078.html (914 words)

	Scopitones.com: Watch Scopitones (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The Scopitone is a little glitchy at the top-sorry.
		This Scopitone is evidently one of the main things that brought down Scopitone.
		The squeeky-clean Back Porch Majority sued Scopitone for I think, upwards of a million dollars, for sullying their image by inserting "lewd" shots like the one on the left.
	scopitones.blogs.com /scopitonescom/watch_scopitones/index.html (1729 words)

	The Dead media Project:Working Notes:00.8 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The Scopitone was a precursor of the rock video, a visual jukebox introduced in France in 1963.
		Sam Wasserman is a Scopitone collector, owning six Scopitone players and "thousands" of their films.
		He has been transferring his Scopitone reels to VHS cassettes and will send a catalog of his prizes for a self-addressed stamped envelope.
	www.deadmedia.org /notes/0/008.html (163 words)

	Scopitone: See what people are saying right now on Technorati (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		npr story: the rise and fall of the scopitone...
		Een Scopitone is een filmpjesjukebox, uit de jaren zestig.
		Scopitone 2006 Jeudi 18 mai 2006 Festival d’arts numériques et de musiques électroniques, le Scopitone 2006 aura lieu les 30 juin et 1er juillet 2006...
	www.technorati.com /tag/scopitone (323 words)

	NPR : Rise and Fall of the Scopitone Jukebox
		The Scopitone was already a huge hit in France when it was introduced to America in 1964, at the Los Angeles Ambassador Hotel.
		Day to Day, August 9, 2006 · In the hip and swinging days of the 1960s, a strange contraption called the Scopitone jukebox seemed poised to be the next big thing.
		Independent producer Jennifer Sharpe investigates the rise and fall of the Scopitone jukebox -- and finds a rare, working model not far from her home in Southern California.
	www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=5630027 (194 words)

	Video Vanguard
		Variations on the concept of musicians performing on film have been around since Tom Edison's coin-op Kinescopes first appeared in 1895, followed by The Mills Panoram in 1939.
		After falling somewhat out of vogue, the French Cameca company reintroduced the "video" (it's actually celluloid) concept with the Scopitone film jukebox—a 16-selection video screen which featured, for the first time, color films.
		The evening will showcase '60s Scopitone films unearthed from the storage space of a retired Virginia jukebox dealer, featuring known names like Dion, Procol Harum and Nancy Sinatra; obscure French pop stars Johnny Hallyday and Dalida; and Britain's Elvis-inspired Vince Taylor, among others.
	www.citypaper.net /articles/012298/sixpick2.shtml (165 words)

	Plus + Ultra » Blog Archive » Scopitone Party! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Scopitones were short films featuring music performances that could be viewed on a Scopitone machine, a “juke-box color sound film viewer.” These could be found at various restaurants, malt shops, and other outlets throughout the 50s and 60s, in both the United States and Europe.
		The films were precursors of the modern music video, and the European Scopitone movies were often foreign-language versions of American or British pop songs.
		I have been aware of Scopitones for years, as a former friend used to copy them onto video casette for me. But there are more Scopitones available to view for free on this website I’ve found than I’ve even seen in my life before.
	plusultrablog.com /blog/?p=1087 (475 words)

	ScopiBlog
		I thought it would be good, however, to post a schematic of the Scopitone (the American model we are talking about).
		This was ordered around the time I found the Scopitones in Kalamazoo about 2 years ago.
		It is a collection of manuals, service info, pictures, and other related documents for the Scopitone.
	mysite.verizon.net /mrohde/index.html (959 words)

	JULIE Facts
		Scopitones, the forerunners of today's music videos, were played
		JULIE and Bobby each made a Scopitone film for Color-Sonics.
		A shot from JULIE's Scopitone was used for the cover of
	ourfairlady.com /JULIEcloseup.htm (147 words)

	And the best part is...no VJs! \| MetaFilter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		May 4, 2003 6:17 AM The Scopitone was a French video jukebox that made its debut in 1960 and was imported into the US in 1964.
		Fortunately for us, a few Scopitone enthusiasts have catalogued the songs, scanned the advertisements, and even preserved a few Quicktime clips of the original French and American Scopitone films.
		Great links MrBaliHai - the Scopitone was vital in preserving embarassing footage from the go-go girl era, a time when sex appeal was apparently measured by an enormous demonstration of energy.
	www.metafilter.com /mefi/25556 (483 words)

	EmptyFree.com :: Scopitone Goddess Audrey Arno
		Scopitone Goddess Audrey Arno [Music] — admin @ 12:21 pm
		A while back I was gushing about Brutallo.com’s “Scopitone Party!” DVD-R. In that post, I mentioned that at some point I was going to post an MP3 from that DVD-R. Well, I finally got around to it.
		It’s got everything you could hope for from a Scopitone film.
	www.emptyfree.com /index.php?p=371&c=1 (157 words)

	Scopitones.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		NPR Story: The Rise And Fall Of The Scopitone Jukebox By Jennifer Sharpe.
		This is an Italian Television documentary about Cinebox and Scopitone put together by Italy's #1 Juke Box Movie expert Michele Bovi, and featuring America's #1 Scopitone guy, Bob Orlowsky (of the Scopitone Archive).
		He came back in January, and told me how he would shows these DVDs to friends and though many of the guys thought my husband was nuts, they laughed at the videos too.
	www.scopitones.blogs.com (1215 words)

	EmptyFree.com :: Scopitone Event Reminder
		Scopitone Event Reminder [Music] — admin @ 11:16 am
		Just a reminder for those of you who live in Chicago, Psychotronic Film Society of Chicago is having a ”Rockin’ Scopitone Festival” at the Improv Kitchen tonight.
		It seems to be a sort of dinner-club type of place, but each booth gets their own plasma screen to watch.
	www.emptyfree.com /index.php?p=423&c=1 (80 words)

	YouTube - copacabana scopitone
		He had a couple of hits in the 60s and 70s, did some movies and was a radio DJ for some time.
		Oddly enough,Dion's on the plane,shooting his "Ruby,Ruby" scopitone.
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	youtube.com /watch?v=VdUX_C77mE8&search=music+novelty+sixties+scopitone (212 words)

	The Austin Chronicle Film Listings
		Essentially a visual jukebox with tiny 16mm film reels and a rear-projection screen, Scopitone was introduced in 1964, but soon died out.
		This original Alamo compilation is co-presented by Scopitones.com and features scopitones by Francoise Hardy, France Gall, Debbie Reynolds, Nancy Sinatra, Herb Alpert & Tijuana Brass, scopitone superstar Joi Lansing, as well as the most popular scopitone of all time, "The Robot."
		This Indian comedy is a sequel to 2004's Munnabhai M.B.B.S. This time Munna "Bhai" falls in love with the voice of a radio deejay, whom he mistakenly believes to be a history professor.
	www.austinchronicle.com /gyrobase/Calendar/Film?Film=oid:319389 (188 words)

	Scopitone - Everybody Loves Scopitones!
		Scopitone films are the early 1960s precursers to today's music videos.
		Scopitone jukebox at swanky cocktail lounges, first in France, then America.
		Here are 30 ultra-rare French and American Scopitones for your dancing and dining
	www.brutallo.com /scopitone.html (491 words)

	YouTube - Web of Love - Joi Lansing Scopitone film
		You wouldn't happen to have the scopitone of Catherine Rivera Elia doing a French version of Goldfinger, would you?
		This classic, almost unbelievibly campy, This classic, almost unbelievibly campy, Scopitone film was used regularly as a bumper between programming on CITY TV in Toronto and that's where I saw it first.
		Scopitones scopitone Joi_Lansing camp campy niteclub lounge witch_doctor (more) (less)
	youtube.com /watch?v=7eGnjuCwoW4&search=Scopitones (339 words)

	Spectropop Group Discussion Archives: Digest Number 838 - 28 Mar 2003
		Message: 2 Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2003 05:54:13 -0000 From: Larry Lapka Subject: Re: Where the Action Is / Five Americans Some of the kinescopes of Where the Action Is are pretty awful.
		This is a group that was defined by that one song ("Western Union" of course), but whose other singles really defined what that form should be--short and full of hooks!
		Tony was (deservedly) > fortunate by scoring in the US, a fact that lent him an > undeniable credibility and for which I always envied him.
	www.spectropop.com /archive/digest/d838.htm (1613 words)

	Gerry Mulligan by Craig Hanley - Paul Desmond (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		There were a couple of crazy hours in the bar off the lobby of the Portland Hilton when we pumped quarters into a Scopitone and repeatedly watched the Kestler Sisters sing and dance their way through a fantastic production number that must have cost more to produce than most full-length movies.
		Television, as it turned out, was considerably hotter, Scopitone disappeared, and we went on to blow our money on more enjoyable, if not more remunerative, adventures.
		Desmond's curiosity is endless, his conversations stimulating, his ability to see through to the center of an issue - or a person - as amazing as his tolerance.
	www.gerrymulligan.info /m_desmond_paul.html (12001 words)

	Alamo Drafthouse Cinema
		Basically a visual jukebox with tiny 16mm film reels and a rear-projection screen, it was hailed as the most remarkable innovation in entertainment since television.
		This original Alamo compilation is co-presented by SCOPITONES.COM and features scopitones by Francoise Hardy, France Gall, Debbie Reynolds, Nancy Sinatra, Herb Alpert & Tijuana Brass, scopitone superstar Joi Lansing, as well as the most popular scopitone of all time, THE ROBOT - and many more!
		There are no scheduled showings for this feature.
	www.originalalamo.com /online_tix/show_details.asp?show_id=3231 (226 words)

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