Marble Machine Subculture

The magnificent marble machine was an american television game show that featured a giant pinball machine as its centerpiece.

Marble machine subculture. Molin is able to make it play bass percussion and a vibraphone using a series of levers that direct the rolling marbles where he wants them. Merrill heatter and bob quigley packaged the program with robert noah as executive producer. In the end it took two years beginning with 3d software designs. Molin previously told wired the project was directly inspired by the existing marble machine subculture i stumbled over the marble machine culture it s a whole subculture and was always.

The marble machine is versatile. The 33 year old was inspired to build his machine after visiting a museum with mechanical instruments in utrecht netherlands. The program premiered on nbc on july 7 1975 at 12 00 pm et replacing the short lived game show blank check. Art james served as host and johnny gilbert was the announcer.

9 32 inch stainless steel ball. 100mm x 100mm base. But as it turns out it s even more fun to watch an automated machine that plays with marbles.