Scopitone ST 16 (1960)
Billboard 28 - 12- 1992
Aschenbecher mit Scopitone Motiv
- Ashtray with Scopitone
motif
Photos courtesy of: David D.
"Café de Krakele - Juke-Box - met Kleurenbeeld"
/ Café de Krakele - Juke-Box - with colour
screen"
Café de Krakele is a tearoom in Bruges, Belgium that still exists. In the Sixties it was a well known place for Rock'n Roll dancing.
Scopitone ST 36 (1962)
Billboard 30. May 1964: "Scopitone, the French cinema
jukebox soon to be manufactured in Chicago, will be shown at an "insiders"
cocktail party and press preview in the Beau Nash Room of the Ambassador
West Hotel Wednesday (27) aftrenoon.
U.S. licensing rights for the machine were recently acquired by
Tel-A-Sign, a public held manufacturer of point-of-puchase advertising
signs. ... Tel-A-Sign has indicated that it will be manufacturing
Scopitone in its Chicago plant by the end of the year. Some 100 units
are already in the U.S.. The firm expects to have some 1,700 on location
within the next two years."
Billboard 8. Aug 1964: "A. A. Steiger, president of
Tel-A-Sign, Inc. .... said that the coorporation's prospects were greatly
improved by the acquisitation of 80 per cent of Scopitone , Inc..
Scopitone is the US licensee for the coin-operated, film-projecting juke box
manufactured by Cameca Corporation, Paris. Steiger said Tel-A-Sign will start
production of the units, which are currently imported, by January, and plans to
make 10,000 a year by 1966. He said Scopitone has orders for the next five years
from distributors for 6,000 machines worth $24,000,000."
