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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 :drinking:

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.

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

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????

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

        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.

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.

      That would have to be a Steve McQueen movie.

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

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!  :biggrin: :laugh: 8)

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.

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! :darn: :censored: :darn:  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 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9z_Wk8Dz2n8)

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

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

 Driving Miss Daisy

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


                                                        Leonard

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

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. 

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!

My kids spotted that too...

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.