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Mechanical Music In The Movies
By Tom Detweiler

Tonight I was watching one of the old early Hammer Films horror
staples, "The Horror of Dracula" (1958), with Christopher Lee and
Peter Cushing.

In a scene that is set in an old Bavarian road inn, the innkeeper
puts a coin in the coin slot of the inn's large disk music box, as
it plays cheerfully away.  Hammer productions always included such
small details to establish story lines.

I'm sure our true MMD experts can pick out the tune and the machine
by ear, but I was just happy that one of the old disk boxes shows
up in a movie at all!

Tom Detweiler



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