JUST WATCHED A GREAT ONE!
1946 " CRACK-UP".
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0038429/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
Tons of early, rare machines!
Restaurant: national 313 brass cash register, wrigley's rotating counter-top gum dispenser.
train station: about half way through the movie, star PAT O'BRIEN is in an old upstate new york railroad station, and, there is a white porcelain watling senator ? big head scale, and... this amazed me... as he paces the floor, he several times passes by a pair of what appears to be either freeport vendors, or, national peanut vendors (see silent salesman volume 1, page 62, lower left corner. the pair of machines are shown a few times, but each time for only a couple seconds.
penny arcade: later in the film, a good deal of time is spent by o'brien, and co-star claire trevor in an old new york penny arcade. tons of machines are show, including cast iron & tin mutoscopes, rows of wood rail pinball machines, as well as counter top pinball machines, abt challenger gun games, a wrigley gum dispenser, rows of counter top peep show viewers & card vendors, a mutoscope or mills drop down punching bag (shows it being played), rows of esco / exhibit supply glass front counter top light-up grip & fortune machines, a "knotty peek" peep show, plot lots more!!
All in all, a great movie!
George Steele, art curator at a small museum, has an apparent mental breakdown one night, convinced he was in a train wreck...which never happened. In flashback, shortly after proposing to x-ray some old master paintings the museum has on loan, Steele is called on an unplanned nocturnal train trip. He suddenly sees another train ahead, speeding toward his... Is George indeed cracking up, or is there a plot to discredit him? The mystery grows murky with shadowy menace