Scopitones were “film jukeboxes,” popular in France in the 60s, that provided private screenings of short music movies. Collector Nick Osbourn will present a program of these 16-millimeter films, ...

Back in the early 60s, an early form of music video developed in France struggled to gain a footing in the public consciousness and ultimately failed. Scopitones used 16-millimeter color film to ...

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 ...

I wish I could say it was a dark and stormy night when a mysterious package containing unknown DVDs was sent to me from the Walker Arts Center. Because, let’s be honest, it sounds more romantic. In ...

This song is the successor to Ann-Margret’s "Bye Bye Birdie" as a ’60s sex-kitten song that briefly makes a comeback due to Mad Men. The Daily Beasteven called Gillian Hills for comment. Lionsgate has ...

<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 ...

North African performers and their families and friends reunite in a French café to watch the Scopitone videos they made in the late 1960s when they were struggling new immigrants in France.