Scopitones

I think that the invention of scopitones was definitely a good marketing plan for the time that it was released. I'm not sure if the invention would work as well in the world of today when everyone has their own personal scopitone in their pocket with youtube on the cell phones. Although, on the website, there are t-shirts being sold which could really fly with the hipster scene right now, seeing as the scopitone could be considered about as vintage as a rotary phone. Also found on the website are tons of videos that I assume used to be available on Scoptiones. What I don't understand about the machine is if each machine came with its own set of videos, or if the videos could be interchangeable from time to time, or if every time a new video was released it was automatically added to each Scopitone that was out on the streets. I think American Pickers would have a field day if a scopitone was found somewhere. Scopitones even have a Facebook, hows that for modern marketing.