NHK captured the day-to-day life of Tokyo from 1962-1964 for a documentary. I spent 2 days dissecting a 50 second scene showing a 1963 Tokyo arcade, documenting every machine with identifiable characteristics.
thread of my #arcadeexploration posts, starting with my latest:
exploring the arcade in the 1978 movie 鬼畜 / Kichiku (The Demon)
each blog entry features an arcade in a movie (mostly from #japan) and tries to identify all of the machines.
This is an exceptionally difficult task because:
and last but definitely not least, my very first arcade exploration... (oh and Fred Astaire is so dreamy!)
exploring the penny arcade of The Band Wagon (1953)