One film that has not been mentioned is a marvelous spoof of Westerns and
Musicals, filmed in about 1949-50 in southwestern Colorado.  Starring Dan
Dailey, Ann Baxter, Walter Brennan and Rio Grande Southern Railroad narrow
gauge locomotive #20, "Ticket to Tomahawk" even featured Marilyn Monroe
in a bit part.

One of the big production numbers featured four "actresses" (including
Monroe) in a number that lured Dailey out of the locomotive cab to sing
and dance with them, the whole number accompanied by a compact, but very
musical band organ.  The organ also showed up (and played) in other
scenes.  Alas, the camera never lingered very long on it.

It was a medium-sized machine, somewhat resembling a Wurlitzer 146, with
snare and bass drums on side shelves and maybe 1-1/2 octaves of exposed
piccolo (or violin?) pipes in front.  Painted above the pipes for movie
purposes was "Only one-man band in the Rockies," and below the pipes,
"Madame Adelaide's Orchestrion."  "Velvet Fingers" energetically twirled a
phonograph-sized crank that stuck out of the upper left part of the case.

The roll (or book) must have been custom cut for the movie.  Anyone have
any information on this instrument?

Stan Rhine, Albuquerque, New Mexico