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Mechanical Music (and Carousels) in the Movies
By Dan Robinson

Lee Rothrock asks in MMD 220307 about music playing in the 1947 film
"Fun on a Weekend" during a scene in which a carousel is visible in
the background: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSlaDS9Wziw&t=401s 

While I can't comment on the music playing, the carousel appears to
be a Looff machine that was once at the Long Beach Pike in California.
Compare the attached screen capture with the photos on this webpage:

https://carouselcorner.net/california/#pike 

The carousel shown there, at least the second Looff merry-go-round to
have spun at the Pike, was dispersed in 1979 (Carousel News & Trader,
Sep. 2010, page 28). The apparent clockwise rotation of the ride in
the film was due to its reflection in the bartender's mirror.

Dan Robinson
Rochester, New York

 [ Carousel (reverse image) in "Fun on a Weekend"
 [ https://www.mmdigest.com/Attachments/22/03/11/220311_141512_1947-fun-on-a-weekend(b).jpg 


(Message sent Fri 11 Mar 2022, 22:15:12 GMT, from time zone GMT-0800.)

Key Words in Subject:  Carousels, Mechanical, Movies, Music

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