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Coin Operated is a 2017 animated short film written and directed by Nicholas Arioli and produced by Jennifer Dahlman. [1] [2] The film premiered at the 2017 Brooklyn ...
Producer-director-writer William Forest Crouch had been making Soundies—three-minute movie musicals for coin-operated "movie jukeboxes". His 20-minute musical made for theaters, Caldonia (1945), starred Louis Jordan, and was so successful that Crouch signed Jordan for three feature films.
Official added other Columbia short subjects: cartoons with Krazy Kat and Scrappy, and "Community Sing" and "Famous Bands" musicals. In the late 1940s, Robert R. Young's Pathé Industries acquired Official; through which it obtained home-movie rights to the Young-owned Producers Releasing Corporation's feature films.
The movie-jukebox idea developed several imitations and variations of the technical design; the most successful of these imitators were the Techniprocess company (managed by Rudy Vallee) and the Featurettes company, which used original novelty songs and usually unknown talent (17-year-old Gwen Verdon appears in a couple of the Featurettes as "Gwen Verdun").
William Forest Crouch (January 16, 1904 – March 1968) was an American motion picture producer, director, writer, and film editor of the 1940s. He is best known for his Soundies musicals filmed for coin-operated movie jukeboxes, and for a few musical features with all-African-American casts, such as Reet, Petite, and Gone (1947).
In 1987, arcades experienced a short resurgence with Double Dragon, which started the golden age of beat 'em up games, a genre that peaked in popularity with Final Fight two years later. [187] In 1988, arcade game revenues in the United States rose back to $6.4 billion, largely due to the rising popularity of violent action games in the beat ...
Tron is a coin-operated arcade video game manufactured and distributed by Bally Midway in 1982. The game consists of four subgames inspired by the events of the Walt Disney Productions film Tron released earlier in the summer. The lead programmer was Bill Adams [2] with Earl Vickers programming the music.
RePlay magazine published its first popularity chart for coin-operated games in the United States in March 1976, covering games of the previous year. The lists were based on polling operators regarding their opinions of games receiving the most attention in their locations. [ 14 ]