pinballspotting

I like old pinball machines and collecting still images of the ones I spot serendipitously in movies, and identifying them. This blog presents the fruits of that obsession -- James Schidlowsky.

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pinballspotting has moved...

pinballspotting has moved to http://pinballspotting.blogspot.ca/ . 

After two years, I finally realized that the format here on tumblr is more suited for single image posts rather than illustrated texts like my posts, so I moved everything over there, and will continue to post new stuff there. I may delete what’s here in the future. Thank you to all the followers and readers....

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pinballspotting, an introduction

I like old pinball machines and started playing an obsessional game, spotting them in movies I watched, collecting still images and then trying to identify them. In this blog, I document the fruits of that effort. My profuse thanks to the internet pinball database, which is an invaluable resource.

I've been playing this "game" for a couple of years, and whilst I was preparing some stuff in advance for this blog -- organizing stills & screen grabs, getting links to the movies and machines -- I stumbled upon an extensive list of pinball machine sightings in movies over at pingeek's Pinball In The Movies. Not sure how I missed that page before!

However, I'm going to avoid peeking at pingeek's list so I can spot pinball machines in a more serendipitous manner. So I guess this is more of a personal blog of what I've spotted rather than attempting to be an extensive list. 

I'm interested in vintage pinball tables, say roughly up to the mid-80s.

Thanks for looking,

James Schidlowsky.

Posted on 2014.12.30.