Imagine calling the police to file a noise complaint and you say "There appears to be a 1950s cartoon taking place next door."

@liamkramer2836

2 жыл бұрын

lol

@ToozdaysChild

2 жыл бұрын

"We'll send someone over right away, sir." Twenty minutes later a paddy wagon shows up with like 20 cops in it, all falling out and running around.

@nostalgiaof98

2 жыл бұрын

More like 1910s

@calvinthedestroyer

2 жыл бұрын

Police bust in, Joe switch's the roll: Tense music starts playing...

@christophercotton9048

2 жыл бұрын

I'm sure the La Crescenta Valley Sheriff's and possibly the Glendale Police 🚔 had to respond to calls on occasion wondering wtf is going on??

“What instrument do you play?” Joe: it’s complicated

@AdieuAlle

4 жыл бұрын

It’s called a fotoplayer

@WKYanks

3 жыл бұрын

haha

@onlinefriend3889

2 жыл бұрын

@@AdieuAlle Normally I'd express the fact that the joke went over your head, but I was also genuinely wondering what this instrument was, so instead thank you! :D

@ajb.4222

2 жыл бұрын

@@onlinefriend3889 did you not watch the video? They said it at the beginning

@onlinefriend3889

2 жыл бұрын

@@ajb.4222 I don't know what video you're watching, but it doesn't say so as at the beginning of this one

I wish Joe could get all the ad revenue from the copy of this video that went viral so he could revive more fotoplayers.

@miltyway

7 жыл бұрын

Agree with you

@chazdesimone7306

7 жыл бұрын

Joe is forming a non-profit to keep silent cinema alive. Get on his mailing list "The Newsreel" to stay informed. Also to learn of newly discovered films and upcoming shows. silentcinemasociety.org. Your comment is deeply appreciated. I have known Joe for over 50 years - my best friend - and he doesn't do anything unless it is authentic and perfect. I am very proud of him. (I'm also honored to restore and recreate his film titles as well as his website.)

@chazdesimone7306

4 жыл бұрын

@John Chrysostom Hmmm... Actually I'm the guy you need to talk to. I admin his newsletter and website. Get ahold of me at chaz@desimonedesign.com so I can get some details from you about how the newsletter is acting up. Thanks. (I don't get on gmail often, so just saw your comment today.) Joe will appreciate your statement about funding to restore more Fotoplayers. Hopefully that'll get him moving on the nonprofit.

@taxman3749

Жыл бұрын

Ad revenue be damned, what should be doing, is he should be receiving a grant from the United States of America in order to purchase and restore as many of these things as possible. If the feds don't mind funding a study on why water is wet, then they should be jumping at the bit to preserve these unique and fascinating instruments.

@taxman3749

Жыл бұрын

@@Pahrump how sad. I hope his legacy continues on.

The sheer _quantity_ of sounds coming from that one machine is what blows me away.

@andrewbarrett1537

2 жыл бұрын

This company crammed more sound effects in their cabinets than did their competitors, and it is believed that the phrase “all the bells and whistles” comes from selling photoplayers and theatre pipe organs to silent movie theatres in the old days, describing the amount of sound effects available. 😃

We definitely need more young people to carry this stuff on.

@ultimatesteve9647

3 жыл бұрын

I would if I had the money and there weren't so few machines left!

@byggrynsgroet

2 жыл бұрын

bet you would be able to snatch one wouldnt you uncle goose

@stealingyourbones0

2 жыл бұрын

Oh I’d absolutely do that but sadly since fotoplayers are so unique and rare that’s a LOT of money. If I had the opportunity to learn how to play this marvelous instrument I’d do it in a heartbeat

@andrewbarrett1537

2 жыл бұрын

Nate Otto in Minnesota, a good player piano technician, will be restoring / reconstructing another Fotoplayer, between projects for clients. I almost said “soon”, but I know how long Joe, Dave Hartman and crew took to restore the large style 41/45 at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, due to how extensive it is (many instruments), and the bad condition in which they received it. The model Nate has was originally a two cabinet model around that size, probably a 45, but missing the side cabinets / instruments and the piano needs a complete restoration. Fortunately some folks have, in past decades, had enough foresight to save certain parts from these instruments, so he *might* be able to gather enough original parts to restore it.

@crazycookie1988

2 жыл бұрын

we do, but with the technology today, it be easier to do everything through a computer

he is an archaeologist, artist, museum curator, and a good person at the same time. much repect!

Could you imagine if in a modern theatre suddenly there's a slide with "Everyone has turned their phone off but YOU" comes up, the lights flick on, a bailiff singles you out, and the entire theatre jeers at you? I think these shame reels need to make a comeback.

@andrewbarrett1537

2 жыл бұрын

BAM!

@Tony.Technics.1200s

8 ай бұрын

They do need to bring the shaming signs back, but you know this generation of easily "triggered" puss!es would sue the theatre for hurting their feelings, lol!

@asikwus

8 ай бұрын

While we're at, also a slide telling something "People would rather hear the story than your commentary blathers. Please be quiet." Shaming those who disrupts the experience with talking during a movie.

When I was 21(56 now), my friend had a grandfather who was a Disney animator and she asked me to help them empty his house after he had died and they were emptying it to sell the home. They had me going in and out of that man’s home and tossing stuff in a dumpster that I know now that this man would be appalled at that was being thrown out. Tons and tons of projectors and millions of the hand drawn scenes from Disney movies that her grandfather made by hand. Lamps and contraptions and sculptures that he made. He was an amazing artist and my friends family had zero interest in it and I am sure that I tossed out ten times the value of that home. I took what I could carry and fit in the tiny back seat of a Camaro. The boxes of the celluloid drawings were super heavy and I remember dropping them in the dumpster and seeing the boxes rupture and the pictures spread out in the millions across the dirty floor of the dumpster. I feel terrible about it all these years later. The grandfather wouldn’t have kept them if he didn’t have sentimental value to him, but they were also worth a huge amount of money. I also remember hundreds of reels of films in the metal canisters. Uugh

@firedevil8733

Жыл бұрын

such a loss.. i feel with you...

@chahahc

Жыл бұрын

People who don't value the past will destroy the future. As we are seeing.

@firedevil8733

Жыл бұрын

Chahahc, sad but true

@CalmestRaccoon

Жыл бұрын

If I had a time machine, I'd use it to stop that from happening.

@KnoxEmDown

Жыл бұрын

Some people hate their family and have no sympathy for their legacy. Whether that hatred is deserved or not is another matter entirely, but it's always terroble to see beautiful things tossed away.

Belt AND suspenders...rock on, Joe!

day 89 of quarantine:

@jedihunter176

3 жыл бұрын

only day 89 huh

@nostalgiaof98

3 жыл бұрын

Perfect comment.

@25skeet50skeet

3 жыл бұрын

Day 189

@CH3R.N0BY1

3 жыл бұрын

i dont even know anymore like 270 days i think

@billholden20

3 жыл бұрын

Day 319

I love this guy, he's my hero. Nerds are the salt of the earth.

@daniel_dumile

4 жыл бұрын

Not so much the host, I could go without him and more Joe talking

@budgiecat9039

4 жыл бұрын

@@daniel_dumile The host did his job well had some good lines that accentuated the presentation.

@zermanman9891

2 жыл бұрын

The world needs many types of people to keep it vibrant

@KidCorporate

Жыл бұрын

I just want to shred ANY instrument with half of his candor.

The song he's playing is a high-tempo variation of "12th Street Rag," famously used by Weird Al Yankovic in the intro to his classic "Hooked On Polka".

@jaysee9655

5 жыл бұрын

Faren22 Al’s father was a famous polka player.

@matthew-ph6xo

5 жыл бұрын

It was also in spongebob

@miniskunk

4 жыл бұрын

@@jaysee9655 Al has no direct relation to Frankie Yankovic. Al's interest in accordions and having the same last name was a coincidence.

@sergebraida5622

4 жыл бұрын

Jay See Frankie and Al were not related.

@JobvanderZwan

3 жыл бұрын

@@miniskunk maybe it was nominative determinism? ;)

people: "What instruments are you playing?" Joe: "Yes"

@PirateAdmiral-bx6sx

4 жыл бұрын

An American FotoPlayer

@lsuhillary

3 жыл бұрын

Pirate2002Admiral whoosh ✈️

As a 20 something year old person I have to say this, these old machines are always fascinating because it's all old school, no fancy tech stuff. I always find the older stuff to be cooler because it's like " how did they get that to work out?! " With technology today it's just all little chips that does everything by itself so it's not as..I guess magical is the word?

@jpsned

Жыл бұрын

Exactly! 👍

@Vengetuen_Wraith

Жыл бұрын

But then again, a chip is quite magical itself. They take this tiny little bit of rock and they make it do math? They can't even get kids to do math these days! How does the rock think? It's so small!

@Wayra_

10 ай бұрын

@@Vengetuen_Wraith scientists tricked rocks into thinking so i can look at big anime boobs anytime anywhere. what a world we live in

This is the most wholesome show host i've listened to. he's just got the friendliest voice i have heard.

@ThenPeterSaid

2 жыл бұрын

Huell is a Treasure.

@daveintheAM

Жыл бұрын

Huell Howser is like, rightfully memed, but likewise, hes a legitimately good host

The OG Sound Board 😮

I want that played at my funeral

@wrednax8594

4 жыл бұрын

KEEP GOING?

@sneaker_thistle

4 жыл бұрын

it would be very expensive though

@dangreenspan8412

3 жыл бұрын

Putting the "fun" in "funeral."

@jimjolley

3 жыл бұрын

This one is somber so it's alright to cry

@blboy129

3 жыл бұрын

My condolences

Joe Rinaudo is doing important work! I hope he is able to catalogue all of the rolls!

@chazdesimone7306

7 жыл бұрын

Joe would love to hear from you, espeically if you know about Picturolls. Visit his website, silentcinemasociety.org. and go to the contact page. (I'm Joe's friend of 50 years, and restore/re-create his film titles.)

@andrewbarrett1537

2 жыл бұрын

I think Joe only has less than 100 Picturolls left to go to get a complete set! When I came over to visit I brought over all I had at the time (about a dozen) from my roll collection, and turns out Joe needed like four of them! So we traded for some great material: I got a recut of a great and super rare Frank Banta MelODee roll called “The Moan” etc etc.

1:19 hit it Joe!

@charlesbrietz

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks

@cruisetheautisticboy994

4 жыл бұрын

Joe played cartoon parade music

Ladies and Gentlemen… The Mayor of Toontown! Honestly, I’d pay $200 a ticket to see this guy play a two hour concert.

@naomigwolfe8112

2 жыл бұрын

Woah, imagine composing two hours of music for this beauty...

His neighbors listen to wonderful music all the time -- whether they want to or not!

It would be a dream come true to watch a full length silent film with Fotoplayer accompaniment. I first learned about the Fotoplayer about 50 years ago, when my parents gave me a couple of old Hathaway & Bowers catalogs, after I had pestered them about old phonographs. I have been a fan of automatic musical instruments ever since.

@2442Random

7 жыл бұрын

Lucius1958 That would be a great business idea. To have a classic cinema without any 3D or Dolby Surround things. I would visit that place often.

@chazdesimone7306

7 жыл бұрын

You can watch a full length silent film with Fotoplayer accompaniment - Joe has performed such a feat at the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences (the Oscar dudes) on their "new" Fotoplayer that he refurbished to perfection and helped them install.

@jkholtgreve

2 жыл бұрын

@@2442Random The Music Box in Chicago still screens silent films with accompaniment on a large, albeit electronic and not original organ. About the closest thing you’ll get to an authentic experience on a regular basis though, and I highly recommend timing your next trip to Chicago to coincide with it.

this is like the first DJ set

@LDTV22OfficialChannel

3 ай бұрын

agreed

I wish more people were as passionate as this guy on the stuff they do (including me) absolutely loving this music!

i think grandpa found my weed

HIT IT JOE🔥🔥🔥

Modern Musicians: "My music is innovative and creative" Joe: Hold my everything

@VibeDPyro

2 жыл бұрын

Joe : you’ve only been fooling yourself, prepare for real power

The original "Hit it, Joe!"

Such a marvelous piece of film history. I wish pieces like this were still around. Having seen silent films with live music I can say that the scores on the video releases just don't have that same power behind them. I didn't like the movie Nosferatu until I saw it with live music. Now I love it. Also OH MY GOD THAT 1903 EDISON IS BEAUTIFUL! I went to the museum of the moving picture and I think they only had this as an illustration on the wall. The real thing is incredible.

@chazdesimone7306

7 жыл бұрын

You should check out Joe's friend's website where Scott Lasky recreates authentic silent film music with a live orchestra: fporchestra.org/ which stands for Famous Players Orchestra. He performs while Joe hand-cranks the motion picture machine, and the next show is coming up in March. Subscribe to Joe's website silentcinemasociety.org to get on the mailing list. (I'm Joe's friend of over 50 years and he was into silent films as a teenager!)

@andrewbarrett1537

2 жыл бұрын

It’s really amazing. I was at Joe’s house when, as a total novice to the history of silent film (I’ve been a mechanical music enthusiast my entire life), I asked Joe a simple question about “how many silent films still exist”? Expecting it was a pretty large number, and was shocked and saddened to hear that only about ONE QUARTER of all these commercial films known made (from vintage newspaper and magazine ads, other sources etc) still survive! That’s really sad. In the silent era, films were considered ephemeral, popular entertainment and were not yet considered artistic or ‘worthy of preservation’ yet as they were too new and the ivory-tower arbiters of culture at the time hadn’t UNBENT enough to stoop to allow film into the pearly gates of the ‘fine arts’ until around when synchronized sound films were already underway. And due to bad transfers as the wrong speeds, missing material etc, a lot of the silent were laughed at and denigrated, except for a few (Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, etc). It took a more removed and sympathetic perspective in recent decades to see these films as the treasures of art and (pop) culture that they actually are. Since so many were on naturally self-destructive nitrate film, they’ve needed to be restored and transferred at great speed before the only remaining copies (of some; others exist in multiple copies) disintegrate. Enthusiasts of silent film and serious scholars always encourage newcomers who discover really old reels of film to reach out to them as they just might have found (part of) one of the currently-lost films.

@ObviousTrollFrom2007

8 ай бұрын

Sadly, it's estimated as low as 50 of these things exist, despite thousands being made. And as few as 12 are known to still be functional. 😔

Alongside the hundreds of miniature versions of myself rummaging through filing cabinets and hamster on the wheel Joe is the head operator of my mind

I was born well past the time of these things, March 1999, but that opening performance gave me a smile that I haven't had in years. Everything about it is just so upbeat and happy and I would donate a leg to hear it in person. I'm stupidly tired since I'm posting this at 1:30 AM but I think I found my new alarm clock.

joe didn’t just hit it, he smashed it

@Maria-qb1nv

7 ай бұрын

He demolished it

that beginning was how i first found the photoplayer

@andrewbarrett1537

2 жыл бұрын

Are you now playing professionally? There are two photoplayer gigs currently in the USA: playing the Wurlitzer YU for the Glenwood Springs Vaudeville Revue in Glenwood Springs, Colorado, and playing the Cremona M3 in the Virginia City Opera House for the Virginia City Players in Virginia City, Montana. That latter gig has been going since the 50s and it is the longest continuously used photoplayer in the world (it got a good 10-15 years of use decades before V C opened as a restoration/ preservation old west town). There will also be a Wurlitzer O in a Washington state theatre soon. None of these are Americans but maybe we’ll see a real Fotoplayer go back in a regularly open public US venue soon.

27:17 Awww ... The last speech was really touching ! We'll never forget this great part of history !

I don't know what's more impressive, the instrument or the amount of skill you have to have to keep up with it.

Mr. Rinaudo is just so full of energy, history, and knowledge of early film and music could just listen to him talk and demonstrate the equipment all day. I just wish the host would just let him speak instead of repeatedly interrupting him. I would personally love to see if we could do a more modern and professional sound recording. Despite the old recording, this clip gave me such an appreciation for early cinema, especially the music and sound.

@andrewbarrett1537

2 жыл бұрын

I think Mr Howser was just keeping things on track so that the show would be an hour and not two hours :) but the dialogue and editing is very good, and it’s an entertaining episode for sure.

@scdmr81

Жыл бұрын

The host talking over and interrupting is ruining the education! Then he asks a questions on stuff that Joe was saying but the host cut him off, so clearly the host wasn’t really listening! Horrible host!

@LittleBlueJug

7 ай бұрын

@@scdmr81I'm willing to let it slide because he's incredibly excited about the interview. This doesn't seem to be the typical ego trip that most interviewers have.

It's videos like this that take me back to my childhood; from his living room decor to the music to his voice as he speaks too. His enthusiasm is admirable and you can tell how passionate he is about playing his Fotoplayer! You can also notice he gets a little nervous or anxious (he even ran out of breath as he was speaking!) at some parts as he explains the contraption, which is entirely valid as a normal human emotion! He wants to tell everything there is about the Fotoplayer, there's so much he has to say- that he wants to say, even!- it's enough to put a smile on your face as you get just as excited as he is! You can tell that this rare machine was in good hands with him! It's sad to know that the rest of the Fotoplayers are kept private and preserved, perhaps even collecting dust too. Joe kept playing his Fotoplayer, giving it life and spirit with every piece he played on it. Joe and his Fotoplayer share a strangely strong connection whenever he sits on his stool and begins playing; you'd think that that's something you'd hear in a work of fiction, but you can practically see it for yourself in the rest of his video collection! I would've loved to visit him, maybe even be given the honor to hear him play it live too. . . I can only wonder what happened to him and where he is today. . .

Anyone who plays a fotoplayer HAS to have a phenomenal sense of humor!

I really like the wind sound 💨💨💨

Joe, I can’t tell you the joy watching you play has brought me. Skills like yours are being lost quickly and what you have and how you play it is a really special thing. Good on you for preserving history and bringing it to life. peace and love from GB

Joe is a man of many talents, and he discovered how to merge all those talents into one single item

Reminds me of a place I used to go in Seattle as a kid called “Pizza and Pipes”. There was a full sized pipe organ that would play and bubbles would blow and the lights would change colors. It was awesome.

I wish you could see the enormous smile on my face right now. This makes me so unconditionally happy

@888Marco

7 жыл бұрын

Yea its like a 'mouth open smile'. :D

@CallMeCJ_

6 жыл бұрын

Three words. Pure. Uncut. Whimsy.

This is incredible. Having Huell Howser as the interviewer adds a whole other layer of surrealness.

@Pioneers_Of_Cinema

10 ай бұрын

Howser sure was a unique talent, with that fantastic voice and exudes positive energy.

The Fotoplayer is an amazing contraption! The ingenuity it took to invent it is simply incredible. And then to learn how to play it? C'mon, I don't imagine there's a Fotoplayer teacher on every block. 🙂

One of the fully functioning Fotoplayers sold recently at auction for around $US440,000.

Joe hit it harder than anyone else in history.

I love how excited and passionate he is in the video. It's such an unusual hobby but he's having a blast doing what he enjoys. Kudos!

The 5 people who disliked this video...dont know what music is..joe's shit goes hard❤😂

A man after my own heart. My favorite slide is "REMEMBER THE JOHNSTON FLOOD. DON'T SPIT ON THE FLOOR!"

joe and his sound machine should be awarded the living american treasure wow👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

Ahh, the days when California had cultural gold worth remembering. Thanks for uploading this gem.

It'd be awesome if someone opened a theater that could replicate this experience

The guy has his own world. I love him.

1:55 this be the guy operating my brain when i'm tryna sleep

Joe, I need you, we need you, the whole world needs you. please come back :(

YOUR MUSIC SAVED MY LIFE

@meme-ni9ch

2 жыл бұрын

I love you

Great shows. Will always remember Huell Howser. Rest in Peace my friend.

I came here for a Fotoplayer and end up finding GOLD.. this is dope!

I have a friend whom i work with who says that her mother, born in 1909, remembers the horse drawn fire wagons, and the sparks the horses would shoot up running.

The film brought me to tears. I don’t know why. Amazing glimpse into art and engineering history.

One watching this gets a new appreciation for the modern film experience and the evolution behind it, but also a nostalgia for a bygone era we will never get to experience, even in a preserved form

This man has become my goal.

I want this to play at my funeral as they lower the casket into the yawning grave

That is the greatest thing I've ever seen and heard.

This is the coolest thing I've seen in awhile, I love Wurlizers/Fairground sounds but this is something different! Gosh, just feels like an old cartoon!

What a legend

My guy Joe has lived the life we all dream of!

WOW!!!! What an absolute treat watching this episode. Thank you for keeping this history alive and WORKING!

I'm so happy that work is being done to preserve these films, projectors, and music rolls. What a marvel!

This was absolutely the best. My words cannot describe how awesome this man and his collection are. Keith Kuhn KK Motion Pictures also on KZread UR. The. Best. Joe

Joe hit it harder than anyone has ever hit

I miss this show so much 😭😭😭

he looks so happy it's so cute

Glad to see Joe is still rockin!! I came for my pal Huell! Wotta Guy!

AAAAW👀👀👀👀👀👀GA!!! Man this is my jam!!!!

My condolences.

I sure do miss watching Huell Howser

@Pioneers_Of_Cinema

10 ай бұрын

He was a unique talent. So much positive energy and enthusiasm.

Miss you Huell forever!

This is now my alarm clock song.

🗣️HIT IT JOE!!!

Huell Howser is an American Treasure! Joe is pretty darn amazing too!

Somehow ended up here always loved Huell, but now Joe and the photoplayer are amazing. I've never heard of it. Please someone make sure that instrument doesn't end up lost. I don't even like the style of music, but its fascinating and an engineering marvel.

What an amazing piece of history. Thank you Huell for bringing events like this into our homes.

"What instrument do you play?" "EVERYTHING!"

I would absolutely love to own and play one of these.

This is an absolutely batshit crazy instrument

The wind whistle gets me every time.

If I close my eyes while listening to the sound effects, I just picture the really REALLY old Mickey Mouse Cartoons. Not quite Steamboat Mickey, but more like Lonesome Ghosts era.

@LegoWormNoah101

5 жыл бұрын

I close my eyes and imagine old school Looney Tunes.

"My condolences"

If I had this instrument I would play it all the time. So beautiful and playful! Joe is a magician! ❤

Utterly fascinating. I love it

I love this it makes me happy

Very beautiful piece of music.

A delight thank you.

Because I lived in California for several decades I remember watching California Gold on PBS. Huell had a very folksy way of finding very interesting things unique to California. I miss his shows.

Thanks new Joe

@jimjolley

2 жыл бұрын

The thanks is all mine, parson

Thank you ❤️

"Hit it Joe!"

I love this, I wish I could travel in time an experience this back when they were new :)