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Penny Phono: two versions: one piece cabinet |
two pieces cabinet
Automatic Age, 9/1939:
"Most startling innovation of this quality music machine is its PENNY
PHONO RECORD, a 12-inch disc
with 20 melodies on it - ten to a side.
Cinematone Corporation not only
only manufactures PENNY PHONO,
but also waxes and processes its own
records, using top-flight orchestras
and talent recruited from transcontinental airshows and film studio
recording orchestras."
"The machine comes in two models, counter and console. The
size of the counter model is 20 inches
long by 16 inches wide by 18 inches
high, with a portable loud speaker
which can be placed anywhere in
location. The console, or floor model, has a built-in speaker.
Styled by one of the country's
leading industrial artists, "Penny
Phono" has the additional merchandising features of illuminated sides,
and one of the most original exploitation ideas ever conceived for a machine of its type. This is a colored
lithographed card, fully illuminated
which, in cartoon form, characterizes
the hit tune of the week, and which
is changed every time the record is
changed.
By the insertion of from 1 to 10
pennies, the record automatically
starts and stops in silent grooves.
Tunes are approximately two minutes
in length. When the center end of
the reached, the tone arm is automatically raised and returned to the
first record starting point. Customers
can play from 1 to 10 tunes at a time,
receiving a wide variety of the world's
finest music for their pennies." |
