Scopitone is a type of jukebox featuring a 16 mm film component. It was a forerunner of music video. The Italian Cinebox/Coilorama and Color-Sonics were competing, lesser-known technologies of the time.[1] A Zodiac jukebox A jukebox is a partially automated music-playing device, usually a coin-operated machine, that can play specially selected songs from self-contained media. ... 16 mm film was introduced by Eastman Kodak in 1923 as an inexpensive amateur alternative to the conventional 35 mm film format. ... A music video is a short film or video that accompanies a complete piece of music, most commonly a song. ...

Based on technology developed during World War II,[2] color 16 mm film clips with a magnetic soundtrack were designed to be shown in a specially designed jukebox. 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. In film formats, the soundtrack is the physical area of the film which records the synchronized sound. ... Johnny Hallyday (born June 15, 1943 in Paris, France) is a French singer and actor. ... This article needs to be wikified. ... The Hully Gully is a type of unstructured line dance originating from the sixties which consisted of a series of steps that are called out by the MC. Each step was relatively simple and easy to do however the challenge was to keep up with the speed of each step. ...

A Scopitone fad soon 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. The fad soon spread to England. Scopitone was a draw in upscale bars and pubs. Scopitone appeared in a few New York City bars in the summer of 1964. Alice and Ellen Kessler (born August 20, 1936 in Nerchau, Germany) are a pair of twins popular in Europe, especially Germany and Italy, from the 1950s and 1960s and until today for their singing, dancing and acting. ... New York, New York and NYC redirect here. ...

Several well-known acts of the 1960's appear in Scopitone films, ranging from Dick and Dee Dee (“Where Did All the Good Times Go”) to Procol Harum, who made a Scopitone of "A Whiter Shade of Pale". In another Scopitone recording Dionne Warwick lay on a white shag rug with an offstage fan urging her to sing "Walk on By". Inspired by burlesque, blonde bomshell Joi Lansing performed "Web of Love" and "The Silencer" and Julie London sang "Daddy" against a backdrop of strippers. The obvious artifice of such scenes led Susan Sontag to identify Scopitone films as "part of the canon of Camp" in her 1964 essay "Notes on 'Camp'". Dick and Dee Dee were well-known American musical entertainers. ... Procol Harum is an English rock band, formed in the 1960s, who built a heavy foundation for what would become progressive rock. ... A Whiter Shade of Pale is a song released in 1967 by the band Procol Harum. ... Marie Dionne Warrick (born December 12, 1940 in East Orange, New Jersey), known professionally as Dionne Warwick, is an African-American singer best known for her work with Hal David and Burt Bacharach as songwriters and producers. ... Walk on By is a song recorded by Dionne Warwick. ... Photograph of Sally Rand, 1934. ... Joi Lansing was the screen name of Joyce Wassmansdoff, born in Salt Lake City, Utah on April 6, 1928. ... Julie London Julie London (September 26, 1926–October 18, 2000) was an American singer and actress. ... Susan Sontag (January 16, 1933 – December 28, 2004) was a well-known American essayist, novelist, intellectual, filmmaker, and activist. ... Camp is an aesthetic in which something has appeal because of its bad taste or ironic value. ... Notes On Camp is a well-known essay by Susan Sontag organized around fifty-eight numbered theses. ...

By the end of the 1960s, the popularity of the Scopitone had all but disappeared. The last film for a Scopitone was made at the end of 1978. As of 2006, the only public scopitone within the US is located at the Belcourt Theatre in Nashville, Tennessee.[3] Nickname: Location in Davidson County and the state of Tennessee Coordinates: , Country United States State Tennessee Counties Davidson County Founded: 1779 Incorporated: 1806 Government  - Mayor Bill Purcell (D) Area  - City  526. ...

The 2002 movie Punch Drunk Love prominently features imagery described as "Scopitones", but those images have nothing to do with Scopitone films or the Scopitone Jukebox. Punch-Drunk Love is a 2002 film written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson. ...

External links

• Scopitone archive
• Scopitone of the day
• NPR: Rise and Fall of the Scopitone Jukebox
• The Scopitone's MySpace - Electronic Music Composer & Producer