{"id":67,"date":"2009-02-02T10:41:21","date_gmt":"2009-02-02T10:41:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/?p=67"},"modified":"2012-08-16T07:35:07","modified_gmt":"2012-08-16T07:35:07","slug":"automaticket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/2009\/02\/02\/automaticket\/","title":{"rendered":"Automaticket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: x-small; font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div>Pictured below is a close up of an Automaticket machine. Evolving from being gear and lever driven, to powered by electric motors, these ticketing machines served as somewhat of an industry standard for\u00a0over eighty years (if you have ever received a carnival\/raffle style ticket, at a theatre,\u00a0it was likely distributed via an Automaticket machine). While there are still a few of these machines in use, the theatre industry generally abandoned such ticketing systems, in favor of computerized ticketing, by the late 1980&#8217;s.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/automaticketmachine.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-66\" style=\"border: black 2px solid;\" title=\"Automaticket Machine\" src=\"http:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/automaticketmachine-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"Automaticket Machine\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/automaticketmachine-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/automaticketmachine-150x101.jpg 150w, https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/automaticketmachine.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/div>\n<div>Aside from cinemas, Automaticket was also heavily involved in early twentieth\u00a0century bus and railway ticketing; especially in the United Kingdom,\u00a0where the company\u00a0licensed with the Bell Punch corporation.\u00a0In later years, Automaticket focused primarily on mechanical business equipment\u00a0(partnered with Bell Punch, Automaticket manufactured some of the earliest mechanical calculators), but failed to transition successfully in to the computer age.\u00a0By the new millennium, Automaticket&#8217;s product line was relegated\u00a0primarily to the world of collectors and museums.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/Automaticketad.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-938 aligncenter\" style=\"border: 2px solid black;\" title=\"Automaticket Advertisement\" src=\"http:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/Automaticketad-141x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"141\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/Automaticketad-141x300.jpg 141w, https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/Automaticketad-70x150.jpg 70w, https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/Automaticketad-482x1024.jpg 482w, https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/Automaticketad.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 141px) 100vw, 141px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>In Orange County,\u00a0a functioning \u00a0Automaticket machine still distributes tickets\u00a0at Newport Beach&#8217;s Lido Theatre.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Pictured below is a close up of an Automaticket machine. Evolving from being gear and lever driven, to powered by electric motors, these ticketing machines served as somewhat of an industry standard for\u00a0over eighty years (if you have ever received a carnival\/raffle style ticket, at a theatre,\u00a0it was likely distributed via an Automaticket machine). [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-industry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":939,"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67\/revisions\/939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}