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Color-Sonic was a type of visual jukebox developed in the United States in the 1960s. They were the first ones to use continuous loop cartridges, which were both more durable and more easily replaced than the film reels used by their competitors, Cinebox and Scopitone. The Color-Sonic films were shot on 35 mm, as opposed to the 16 mm film used for Scopitone and Cinebox. Before Color-Sonic, Panoram had already pioneered the use of visual jukeboxes in America.
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- ↑ "Cinebox/Colorama/Cinejukebox". Scopitone Archive. Retrieved 2014-02-24.
- ↑ "Michele BoviThe Spy-Story of Music Videos * Michele Bovi". Michelebovi.it. Archived from the original on 2014-02-19. Retrieved 2014-02-24.
- ↑ Newsweek - Google Books. 1963. Retrieved 2014-02-24.
- ↑ Billboard - Google Books. 1961-09-25. Retrieved 2014-02-24.
- ↑ Popular Science - Google Books. October 1963. Retrieved 2014-02-24.
