OT: 70's Coin-Operated Cartoon Booth
Tobyautmtc
machine that the spinner quit working on, a dead Deluxe Space Invaders, and a
cocktail pong knock-off that also doesn't work. Hope to get them going again
someday. Anyway I was reminded of something the other day. In the late 70's I
remember these things that looked like photo booths but they played cartoons.
They might have been old at the time but I haven't seen one for probably 20
years. I was just wondering if they are hard to find and/or valuable and what
is the proper name or them. I tried to search on eBay but came up with
nothing. For some reason I remember watching Woody Woodpecker I think. Well,
I just thought someone here might know what I was talking about since some of
you might deal in other coin-operated things besides arcade games. Thanks for
any help you can give.
Toby Wickwire
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Videotronics super 8 endless loop cartridge films with magnetic
soundtrack. An alternate projector (Fairchild Seventy-O-Seven) was used
in them during the production run.
There were several manufacturers of cartoon movie booths, but the ones
I worked on were Kartoon Korner.
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Snk2112
could ,,, oh my god , just drop off their kids( mostly unsupervised) and
they had fiberglass animals to play on, a few arcade games ,, a small indoor
slide and a cartoon booth ,,,,, i beged and beged for a quarter to watch them
but ,,never did get to see one in action , i doo remember the
more or less monitor bezel had heckel and jeckel , the walt lance tunes , but
NO LOONEY TUNES , or disney ,
kinda wonder if they ever got new movies for them or if any ended up in umm
how shall i put this ..... establishments where a curtain on a booth is the
wrong kind of invatation and privacy ,,,,
Danno
who'd rather win $5000 from BEN STEIN
Than $1000000 from Regis ,,,,,,,,,
don't worry ,, we're not alien spies sent to kidnap you or any thing ,,,,
"it's a HAND grenade "
Rob Carroll
Heckle and Jeckle in one as a tyke. I think about those every here and again
myself, but I don't think I'd ever want to own one.
Of course, I suppose you could put a skin flick in it and bring it to a seedy bar
or something. But *I* wouldn't want to be the one to have to clean it out!
Rob
Gaymond Lee
On Sat, 23 Sep 2000 10:13:41 -0400, Rob Carroll <rcar...@thecia.net>
wrote:
>I remember those... they had them in K-Marts and stuff... I remember watching
>Heckle and Jeckle in one as a tyke. I think about those every here and again
>myself, but I don't think I'd ever want to own one.
>
>Of course, I suppose you could put a skin flick in it and bring it to a seedy bar
>or something. But *I* wouldn't want to be the one to have to clean it out!
>
>Rob
They have one that works out in the Cliff House in the SFBA.
Gaymond Lee
laxa...@my-deja.com
MPO
> Videotronics super 8 endless loop cartridge films with magnetic
> soundtrack. An alternate projector (Fairchild Seventy-O-Seven) was
used
> in them during the production run.
> There were several manufacturers of cartoon movie booths, but the ones
> I worked on were Kartoon Korner.
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
>
all on one reel from the same film distributor/studio. For instance,
all cartoons on one cartridge were all UNIVERSAL STUDIOS: a Woody
Woodpecker, an Inspector Willoughby, A Chilli Willy. Likewise another
reel would be all TERRYTOONS (released by 20th Century Fox) a Mighty
Mouse, a Heckle & Jeckle, a Gandy Goose, etc. Another would be all
COLUMBIA/UPA like a Mr. Magoo, Fox & Crow, Deputy Dawg, Color Rhapsody,
etc.
The film labs had a minimum order of 400 feet of finished & recorded
sound film for a cartridged print and it usually cost about $600 for
this (SUPER 8). At no time were Disney or Warner Bros cartoons
available (that I know of), due to extremely high license fees.
The films were notched for several frame so the they would
automatically stop after each cartoon ended (so you would need to put
in another quarter.