Classic Machines in the Movies

[mznb1u]

I saw a mention of this in another thread but did not want to hijack the thread.

I noticed in "Back to the Future"--Marty McFly is standing next to a VMC 81 (at a Classic Texaco Station) trying to twist the cap off of a Pepsi until George McFly takes the bottle and opens it on the opener mounted on the side of the machine!? next to the bottle rack.

Another is in "The Birds"--in the diner scene, there is a classic cigarette machine in the background.  The old bitty, Mrs. Bundy actually buys a pack of smokes (maybe Parliaments?)in the scene.  National, Rowe???--can anybody identify?

Here is the scene:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JN-G19p7960

There is also a nice Coke Cooler next to the gas station in the next scene before it gets blown up!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YbfWNxw2xU&feature=related

I'm sure there are a lot more movies out there that have classic machines but those are the only two that I can come up with now.  Anybody else care to add to the topic?

Tim

[collecture]

I posted a thread about this movie a while back, but there are several machines pictured in a 1970's Warren Oates movie called 'Two Lane Black Top' - I think James Taylor (the musician) is in it too.

[Marvin]

Watched 'The World's Fastest Indian' the other day.  During 2 different gas station scenes there was a Coke 81 and a Coke 56. 

My wife has gotten to where she points them out for me as well.

Marvin

[Larry]

The Twilight Zone is great for old cigarette machines, slots, and jukes.  I never saw a Coke machine or actually any beverage machine.

My biggest thrill was when I was watching the "Hustler" with Paul Newman and Jackie Gleason.  In the first five minutes Fast Eddie gets gas and decides to go into a bar.  Before he hustles the yokles, you see him playing a 1958 Bally All Star Deluxe bowling machine.  You never see the backglass or a close-up of the machine.  You just see the side graphics and the side cut away glass that was only used on that machine and a Williams baseball machine.  Of course I had to call the wife and kids in to see this....and they said "wow (ho hum) that is cool!?"  Well at least I thought it was cool because I was able to recognize the machine in a shadow off in the distance. 

Get a life, I say.

This seems like a really cool thread.  Has anyone else notice anything out of the (hobby) ordinary?

[MoonDawg]

        Great topic! If anyone asks me what kind of movie I like.....this is it! 

        Like garage sales or swap meets, spotting these old vending machines, gas pumps, porcelin signs or classic cars in a movie is a thrill that most regular people just don't understand.

[sodaworks]

Now if I could only find an old movie where a guy rides up on a vintage dirtbike to get a cold soda from a vendo decapper.

[MoonDawg]

      That would have to be a Steve McQueen movie.

[johnnyfizz]

I'm diggin' up this old thread but in "Pee Wee's Big Adventure" (Ok, go easy on me ,I got kids)at the scene at The Alamo there's a old coke machine and candy machine against the wall.I tried to post a link off youtube. FF to the 6 and 9 minute marks. If it don't work a search should find it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2Rw8YQNkO4

[mznb1u]

It was a DVD Movie Christmas at our house this year.  My wife and I watched "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World" yesterday afternoon.  I spotted a Westinghouse Standard-ice version in the scene where Jonathan Winters destroys the gas station.  He throws a brand new cooler out the door into the parking lot--ugh!  There is also a candy machine in the background but I did not reverse the movie to see what type.

Then later in the movie, there is a scene where Ethel Merman stops to make a call to her son and Sid Caesar and the British guy are enjoying a Coke near what looks like a Westinghouse WD-6.

This movie is a very funny, family friendly classic! 

[oscar]

In the heat of the night- there is a Vendo 81 if i remember right. I don't remember what scene it was in. It was an 81 or a 110. Would have to see the movie again.
On the waterfront- there is a westinghouse master down at the docks on the front of the little building where Marlon Brando gets the crap beat out of him .
In the Strange Love of Martha Ivers in a bar scene there are 2 Rowe cigarette machines in the background.
The Big Sleep- It was on last night and there was a cooler that looked like a Glascock Standard but looked wider and the bottles sat on a slant instead of flat.
30 Seconds over Tokyo- There was a machine that Van Johnson got 2 sodas out of . It was taller than him,looked about 3 1/2'- 4' wide, bottles sat on a slant in the bottom, had a padlock on top. It could have been a huge cooler. Never seen anything like it.

[90grad]

Two I know of are:

1. In the movie "Space Cowboys", when Tommy Lee Jones is giving the kid a bi-plane ride, I think there is a two-tone 110 against the wall of a small building in the background.

2. Like Oscar wrote, in the classic movie "Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo", Lt. Ted Lawson (Van Johnson) buys his wife Ellen (Phyllis Thaxter) a Coke from a strange-looking machine.  I always wondered what kind it was, too.  A few years ago, some one (not a regular poster, I don't think) stuck a thread on here asking about a specific type of a machine and it matched the one in the movie.  But, for the life of me, I can't remember what kind it was!   I do know it wasn't one of the more common manufacturers.  The scene is early in the movie when the characters are at Eglin Field.  Go to about the 1:58 mark in this YouTube clip...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9z_Wk8Dz2n8

[red-hungarian]

In the heat of the night- there is a Vendo 81 if i remember right. I don't remember what scene it was in. It was an 81 or a 110. Would have to see the movie again.

That's funny.. A Soldier's Story, the Denzel remake of the same story had a Cavalier 72 or 96, couldn't tell which.

[Kilroy]

1976 - Silent movie
A Vendo can machine. Why I mention it here  will only ruin the scene if you haven't seen it.

 30 yrs later, it still makes me laugh out loud

[Ltransam]

 Driving Miss Daisy

          Store Front after he looses Miss Daisy   C-72 0r C-96 Not Sure


                                                        Leonard

[Creighton]

Slapshot,
Hanson Brothers trash a machine. Been awhile since I've watched the movie. Don't recall what type.
Creighton

[Larry]

My kids were watching Icarly on Nick and my one son paused the show and got me in the front room to watch it.  He backed up a scene to show me something in the background.  They have a cool green U select it in their loft as one of the props.  I was surprised that he spotted it. 

[GreginNM]

I saw that a few weeks ago when my daughters were watching.  I had to do the same and back it up to check it out.  Kinda neat where some of these machines will pop up!

[davethebirdman]

My kids spotted that too...

[collecture]

Was watching the Western Channel the other day and a movie called Wanda Nevada came on with Brook Shields and Peter Fonda.
In the first 15 minutes or so, they had a V-44 and then a VMC-27 (Tabletop) on an enclosed stand.