White Whale Acquired! Minirama Cartoon Theater!

[MPM1972]

Just scored a white whale of mine this AM. Saw it in the window of a JUNK shop right around the corner from where I work last night, when there as soon as someone opened the door this morning and now it's MINE!

She needs a good cleaning, but it still works. It's in the office right now, and the boss is ok with it here but I have not had much time to see what cartoon are on the reel.

What a great day!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/75028741@N06/7705439912/

[ScottA]

Pretty cool. Not something you see everyday. Congrats.

[Remco Monster]

Wow, super cool! Congrats on an unusual score!

[EMCE Hammer]

Awesome - I love stuff like that

[Earth 2 Chris]

I remember those! Wow, looks to be in nice shape. Congrats1

Chris

[sprytel]

That is awesome! What do you plan to do with it?

[MPM1972]

Plan on cleaning it up, fixing the bad spots and watching cartoons! Am not sure where the wife is going to let me put it in the house tho!

[Evel KMego]

How cool is that !!!

[megoat]

Super cool! BTW, what's all that vinyl in the background?

[ddgaff1132]

I have never seen one of those in my life! But anything with animation, Has my full attention!!! That is soooo Dang Cool. I'd love to know what size film rolls inside that cabinette. Is it like an 8mm with sound or 16mm. God I'd like to see its inner works.

[The Nawd]

WOW! A cartoon booth!

There used to be one at the old Sears store I would go to with my mom as a kid back before the Sears store moved into the mall.

[megomania]

WOW! A cartoon booth!

There used to be one at the old Sears store I would go to with my mom as a kid back before the Sears store moved into the mall.

Yep same here that was awesome

-Chris

[mazinz]

WOW! A cartoon booth!

There used to be one at the old Sears store I would go to with my mom as a kid back before the Sears store moved into the mall.

Yep same here that was awesome

-Chris

Ditto. The Sears by me had one till roughly the mid 80's or so. I use to see these machines all over the place (mostly at malls). Back then everyone would watch the cartoon of the person before them to save money and see more. Actually a few weeks ago I was describing this machine to someone since they are younger and have never heard of such a thing

ddgaff1132: the machines were I think 16mm (or super8) full sound and you got one full cartoon. Of what I can recall most machines showed Terry Toons (like Heckle and Jeckle) .

MPM1972- what an amazing find and I hope you can get the thing up and running. Be awesome to record one of the toons off the screen and help a lot of us go back in time--

[Bruce Banner]

I fondly remember those cartoon booths. I saw quite a few at malls and in airports.
Great memories.

[MPM1972]

Thanks everybody for the kind words! I just got the Theater to the workshop this afternoon from the office. I will post more pics of the clean out as I get time to work on it. I still have not had much time to mess around with it this weekend as my Saturday was pretty busy. Garage sales in the AM (very good day, no Megos but alot of good stuff!) then to my mother-in-laws houst to help clean the pool (she has MS and is wheelchair bound) and go for a much needed swim as it was 97 degrees. Had to work with my father this AM and did not get done until 1 pm then had to work on the old Honey-Do list.

MAZINZ: the theater is fully functioning. It just needs a GOOD cleaning and a few cosmetic fixes.

MEGOAT: I work for a Record Shop. The owner has been in business for 35 plus years and my good friend started working with him about 3 years ago. When the owners main guy left I came on and took over his position. All the new releases and tons of vintage vinyl.

DDGAFF: The machine projects an 8mm sound print from a continious loop cartirdge. I will post pics as I start to clean up the Theater.

There were about 4 Cartoon Theaters at Penn-Can Mall back in the day. I have been on the look out for one forever. I am told that this one came from the closed down Rollerskating Rink in Mattydale, NY.