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The Scopitone

5/10/2009

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The Scopitone was created in the year 1960 by the factory CAMECA (Compagnie d’Applications Mécaniques à l’Electronique au Cinéma et à l’Automistique). It was a machine designed to have the same function as a jukebox, the only difference being that it has a television screen showing a film created specifically to accompany one song. The Scopitone is the ancestor of MTV. Consisting of 36 films in colour and in black and white, the music films could be played continually, as one film would rewind while the next one was playing. The Scopitone was exclusively designed for cafés in France. The 16mm films made for the Scopitone were not shown on television. The production of Scopitone films came to an end in 1974.

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Video below shows Serge Gainsbourg clicking along to a Scopitone in 1965
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