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  • October 11, 2011 at 4:26 pm #105073
    Tacye
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    harpist automaton

    http://www.bonhams.com/eur/auction/19035/lot/33/

    October 11, 2011 at 4:45 pm #105074
    Amber M
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    Kinda scary lookin!

    October 11, 2011 at 4:51 pm #105075
    barbara-brundage
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    You can see one in operation, only in much better condition (well, it was 60 years ago) in the scene in “Scrooge” with Alastair Sim where Tiny Tim is looking at the musical toys in the window of a toy shop.

    October 11, 2011 at 4:52 pm #105076
    barbara-brundage
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    At about 5:26:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1l1_82x2BO4

    October 11, 2011 at 5:20 pm #105077
    Tacye
    Participant

    Thanks, Barbara, that was good to see.

    October 11, 2011 at 6:08 pm #105078
    kreig-kitts
    Member

    Oh no it doesn’t! That is scary as heck!!!

    October 11, 2011 at 6:15 pm #105079
    barbara-brundage
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    Yeah, I think all the toys in that scene would have kept me from sleeping in the same room with any of them. They’re all vaguely sinister if you really look at them.

    October 13, 2011 at 10:32 pm #105080
    catherine-rogers
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    Looks like a monster or zombie, not a monkey. Yech!

    October 13, 2011 at 11:17 pm #105081
    sherry-lenox
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    One of my all time favorite holiday movies. I learned through this post that Richard Addinsell scored some or all of the music, and most of the music is beautifully arranged and quite familiar, but does anyone know if the polka played at Fred’s house when Scrooge dances with Fred’s wife was composed for the movie or was an arrangement of an older tune?

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