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Record Player Films was founded in 2019 by Oliver Roskill to create a slate of dynamic genre focused film and television from distinctive voices.
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- A Clockwork Orange. We have to start with this iconic star of the silver screen: the splendid Transcriptors Hydraulic Reference (1964). Designed by Transcriptors founder David Gammon, the Hydraulic Reference is a gorgeous piece of kit.
- Elementary. Who knew the great detective was a McIntosh fan? While BBC's Sherlock favours a one-box Ruark R2i, the CBS version of Holmes is more into traditional hi-fi systems.
- The Flintstones. Could this be the oldest record player ever depicted on screen? Vinyl was all the rage in the Stone Age, apparently. That turtle platter looks steady enough, but we hope Fred's adjusted that bird beak's tracking weight accurately.
- Good Morning, Vietnam. The wonderful Robin William doing what he does best, with the help of some broadcast-standard Garrard turntables. [Source]
- Shawshank Redemption – Not just another day in the yard. Riding a wave of newfound trust and responsibilities granted by the warden, Andy Dufresne (Tim Robbins), a New England banker wrongly accused and incarcerated for killing his wife and her lover, seeks revenge after he’s finally provided new supplies for the prison’s library after years of writing daily letters to the state of Maine.
- Saving Private Ryan – A serenade by the Little Sparrow. While sitting in a destroyed French city during World War II, U.S. troops get serenaded by Edith Piaf’s Tu Es Partout as the classic 1941 song blasts out of a gramophone.
- Almost Famous – One day you’ll be cool. In a quintessential coming of age scene where William’s (Patrick Fugit) older sister, Anita (Zooey Deschanel) moves out to head to San Francisco, she passes along sage words of advice and more importantly her vinyl record collection, including The Who’s iconic concept album, Tommy.
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – Medicine time. In this 1975 adaptation of Ken Kesey’s classic novel, McMurphy (Jack Nicholson), a new patient at the Oregon state mental hospital, finds the classical music the nurses are playing while giving out medication to be insufferable, so he decides to take matters into his own hands.
- Shawshank Redemption – Opera Scene. In this compelling 1994 drama, Tim Robbins plays Andy Dufresne, a banker who’s incarcerated for a crime he didn’t commit.
- Good Morning Vietnam – It’s Alright. This 1987 anti-war film stars Robin Williams as Adrian Cronauer, an irreverent, wise-cracking DJ for the Armed Forces Radio Service who is on the brink of having a nervous breakdown.
- A Clockwork Orange – Beethoven’s Ninth. This Stanley Kubrick masterpiece presents a bleak glimpse into the future as we follow the wild adventures and musings of Alex (Malcolm McDowell), a criminal with a keen interest in classical music, particularly Beethoven.
- Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade – Bath Scene. What’s a bath without a record playing? In this scene, Dr. Elsa Schneider (Alison Doody) is listening to a phonograph recording of Benny Goodman’s swing jazz tune “You’re a Sweet Little Headache” while supposedly running a bath.
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You’ve heard of Sony’s Betamax, for example, which has been a punchline ever since it lost out to JVC’s VHS. But that was just the realm of video tape; have you ever watched a movie on a vinyl record?
Jul 25, 2018 · If you collect records, work at a record shop, or are an Audiophile this is a list of movies that give us record fever... the films that make us want to buy all the classics, and give us an appreciate of vinyl.
