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The place with the music machines.

posted 12 years ago by VictoryRose
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Is this a real place? I would love it if anyone knew more about it. Thanks!

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[–] chetripley80 11 years ago

I'm not sure if the place in the movie was real, but there's a place called "House on the Rock" in Wisconsin that has very similar musical machines throughout it.

[–] VictoryRose 11 years ago

It is real! I found it a while back. It's called "Musee Mecanique" and it's in San Francisco. It's a really neat place to visit. Thanks for the "House on the Rock" place. I'm going to look that up.

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[–] ciocio-2 11 years ago

When I saw the movie, I immediately wanted to know what/where that was, 'cause I wanted to visit it. I appreciated the movie so much that, the same night I watched it (DVD), I watched it again, with the director's and producer's commentary (pretty worthwhile commentary track, unlike many of those). In the commentary, they say that a search was done throughout the USA (or maybe beyond?) to find that array of mechanized music 'toys,' which were rented for the movie, and that the cacophony of their sounds all together that we hear in the movie was actually dubbed in. Seems the actual sounds were just too unpleasant, jumbled up together like that. Thanks for finding the Museée Mécanique in S.F. It has different items than we see in the movie, but looks pretty cool, from its website: http://www.museemechanique.org/.

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