I don’t mean to slander his legacy, but the news this week of the death of Chuck Brown, the “Godfather of Go-Go,” made me think of Scopitone, the proto-video platform for cheesily risqué musical films ...

<b>BEFORE YOUTUBE,</b> before VH1, even before MTV, there were Scopitones. <p>Scopitones were large, wood-paneled contraptions from the 1960’s that played sound and showed a video on ...

Photo: Walker Art Center Cable boxes couldn’t be hooked up fast enough in August of 1981. People said I want my MTV. Music videos blew our minds as we watched for hours on end a steady rotation of our ...

About 15 years ago, vernacular photo collector Nicholas Osborn was rummaging through a flea market in Wisconsin when he came across a bunch of 16-millimeter reels. They featured kitschy performances ...

In the hip and swinging days of the 1960s, a strange contraption called the Scopitone jukebox seemed poised to be the next big thing. The machine the size of a refrigerator projected short films -- ...

Scopitones are three minute long 16mm films that were viewed on a Scopitone machine, a jukebox-like player. A precursor to music videos, Scopitones -- both the films and the machines -- were popular ...

The Scopitone is a dead medium from that global metropole of dead media invention, France. The Scopitone has the rare distinction of being a dead medium whacked by the Mafia. Given that, one wonders ...

In some 500 bars, restaurants and servicemen’s clubs throughout the U.S., the center of attention these days is a monstrous new machine called Scopitone. It is a cross between a jukebox and TV. For ...

New technologies keep surprising us every day. 3DESTRUCT is a fantastic audiovisual installation, built last year as part of the Scopitone Festival 2011. Antivj, the studio behind this installation ...