Scopitones fun!
I was recently reading about the Scopitone system, a precursor to modern music video. It was essentially a film juke box that played short snippets of music video for a small price. They were very hard to service and were not popular for very long. Youtube has several of these films. I especially like this one:
I've had some dreams like this, although they usually devolve into nightmarish, apocalyptic visions involving Captain Kirk, the Wonder Twins, and the Kubrickian monolith from 2001. Enjoy!
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