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Mechanical Music in the Movies
By Lee Rothrock

Bless the internet and YouTube for things we may never
otherwise have been able to see!  In the film "They Came
By Night" (1940) there appears a musical clock where a bugler
shows up cuckoo-clock-wise at 45:50 and again 47:27.  See
https://youtu.be/Mtklzx3QD44?t=2752
Attachment thumbnail So, my question: is this something the likes of which anyone has actually seen, or is it purely a filmmaker's fantasy? Lee Rothrock [ The bugler's voice in the cuckoo clock sounds like a reed, [ not a flue pipe. -- Robbie

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