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I've been contacted by a company making a TV show that needs early amusement machines. This time they need 1930s (or very early 40s) pinballs. I should have more info tomorrow but it would seem they are willing to hire machines from their owners. I have told them all machines would need to be fully insured for loss or damage and owners would need that in writing. Anyone interested in getting involved pleases PM me.
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From personal experience, many times over, my advice is simply steer clear. Film and TV companies are a total pain in the arse and are invariably absolute time wasters.
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Evening
Happy to hire machines out or use my locations, but no pintables. Other machines, if they require them.
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I have to agree with JC here.
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I know what you mean, but in their defence, this is a major production by a very large production company not a "make it then try to sell it" fly by night production Co, I even had to sign a non-disclosure doc before they could even talk to me about the details of the production. they also have serious insurance in place.I think I personally would go with this one where I wouldn't have in the past, but its down to each individual of course.

I can tell you they need to recreate this scene as correctly as possible

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A production of “Tommy II” You get your machines back in matchboxes :HaHa:
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Almost impossible to re-create.
Where are they going to find all those Yanks?
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Reminds me of someone who supplied number of original working bandits for a TV crew for an outside filming location. These were hired with insurance. However, also needed large number of empty cabinets for the background. These were purchased as likely to be damaged in "explosive action scenes". Once filming completed the supplier returned to the location to collect all hire machines which were all undamaged. The purchased cabinets were all in two skips within the fenced-off location, but nearly all were undamaged. These were written off and the supervisor allowed him to retrieve cabinets from the skips at no cost.
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a shiny sixpence to the first person to guess where those two photos were taken

all the machines were free to play and cigarettes given for high scores
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Lakenheath?
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Lakenheath?
no..too far north, the answer is actually in one of the photos
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Piccadilly Circus - American Red Cross club.
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correct, Rainbow Corner , Picadilly ,its said 8 million service personnel past through its doors over the years.
your 6d will be available for collection at the next Coventry auction !!CHEERS!!
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!!YIPPEE!! Hope it will be super shiny.
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coppinpr - I've deleted the images from your post which contained the Gettyimages watermark (which is generally to deter copying).

Getty permit embedding of some images using their slide-show embedding code, but they don't permit downloading and posting them to other websites. Those images are labelled Rights-managed, 'not released'.

Historically Getty have been litigious. Let's not get sued and accused of hypocrisy on the same day!
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the images came from the production company who at least said they had paid for them so I thought ok to add on the forum,sorry.
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Raphael Lankar in Paris has such things. https://www.pinball-gallery.com/
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