Editing Scopitone (section)

{{Short description|French 16mm color film video jukebox of the 1960s}}
[[File:Scopitone 02.jpg|thumb|upright|Scopitone machine]]
'''Scopitone''' is a type of [[jukebox]] featuring a [[16 mm film]] component.  Scopitone films were a forerunner of [[music video]]s. The 1959 Italian [[Cinebox]]/Colorama and [[Color-Sonic]]s were competing, lesser-known technologies of the time one year before the Scopitone in France.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.scopitonearchive.com/cinebox/index.html|title=Scopitone Archive: Cinebox/Colorama/Cinejukebox|website=Scopitonearchive.com|accessdate=2 August 2018}}</ref>

Based on [[Soundies]] technology developed during [[World War II]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.stim.com/Stim-x/9.4/scopitone/scopitone-09.4.html|title=Le Scopitone!|website=Stim.com|accessdate=2 August 2018}}</ref> color [[16 mm film]] shorts with a magnetic [[soundtrack]] were designed to be shown in a specially designed jukebox. The difference between the [[Panoram]] and the Scopitone jukebox was that with Panoram the 16mm films were black and white with optical sound and there was no selection among the 8 short films in the jukebox, whereas Scopitone featured color (in the US produced films [[Technicolor]]), with Hi-Fi magnetic soundtracks, with selection available between all 36 Scopitone films in the Scopitone Jukebox. Scopitone films, like Soundies, featured recordings that performers lip synced to, with at least one exception; [[Billy Lee Riley]] was recorded live performing the song "High Heel Sneakers" in his Scopitone. <ref>Jack Stevenson, The Jukebox That Ate the Cocktail Lounge, included in Land of a Thousand Balconies, page 31, A Critical Vision Book, {{ISBN|1-900486-23-7}}</ref>

Between 1940 and 1946, three-minute musical films called Soundies (produced in [[New York City]], [[Chicago]] and [[Hollywood, Los Angeles|Hollywood]]) were displayed on a [[Panoram]], the first coin-operated film jukebox or ''machine music''. These were set up in nightclubs, bars, restaurants and amusement centers.

After 2005, the word 'Scopitone' was dedicated as a name for type of music video which is highlighted on musicians, playback artists, and composers on screen. Composer and conductor [[James Horner]] first used the Scopitone name for his video as a remembrance of the Scopitone jukebox.