When the world needed him most, he returned

Haven't seen Joe play the Fotoplayer in a long time and have missed his content on KZfaq. Interesting to actually see the process while accompanying a silent film. Keeps him busy, that's for sure.

This was gorgeous to watch.

Wait! What? That is my cousin Gary organizing the music rolls....Wow! I am amazed!

Joe, It is so wonderful to see you and Gary again! I love how your hard work and dedication to the project has brought you to fulfilling this dream. We love you and miss you, Scott and Annemarie Lloyd!

What an incredible effort to keep the musical accompaniment playing and all the work and preparation put into making this all happen. Thank you so much Joe and all your helpers to keep the continuity going. It's truly wonderful to see how it was all done in the early days of film.

awesome to see him still alive!

Fantastic! The organ's tuning is amazing...

Absolutely wonderful!!!

I love Joes videos and his photoplayer.

Glad to see he’s still going strong since the Huell Hauser episode way back when.

FANTASTIC!!!!

Good to see Joe with some new stuff, had not seen anything current from him and was worried something had happened to him. A master at work!

Hit it Joe!

judging by their hindheads, there are two Joes. that's great, I was of the assumption that only one Joe Rinaudo was already God working his might at peak performance level, but having a backup makes me sleep a hell of a lot easier. The original Hitech producer.

It was great seeing these films and hearing the Fotoplayer at the picture show at the AMICA / MBSI convention! Joe, Dave and crew spent about 10 years restoring this instrument from a very derelict condition back to its original glory for the academy, and I am glad it again had an appropriate home in a theatre. My one and only gripe is that the Fotoplayer was not expressive in this performance (due to having the swell fronts off the side cabinets, so spectators in the anteroom could watch the "action" of all the sound effects and percussions that are normally hidden away, such as in this video). Therefore, when any pipe rank or tuned percussion (xylophone or bells) was used, it played forte or fortissimo throughout (with the exception of the manual-pull percussions and sound effects). As a musician, I worried whether this might turn any other musicians in the audience, off to the charms of the Fotoplayer. However I do realize that exposure to these instruments is key to their continued survival (given the horrendously high number of these instruments that were junked in the past 90 years), and also that probably a lot of people wanted to watch the fascinating devices in the sode cabinets, so Joe obliged. "Know your audience", or something. Also, I am not at all sure there was enough time (or budget) to have custom glass or clear plastic swell shades made and installed in the side cabinets before this particular show. Maybe that is something they would want to do for future ones. I will say that the theatre was clean and the staff polite and accomodating, and speaking again as a musician, my hat is off to Joe for the good way he played these pictures, using the rolls. His choice of music, cue changes, perfectly timed sound effects, and especially tempo changes, really helped enhance each picture, and draw viewers into the plot of the sci-fi and comedy pictures that were shown. I heard he spent weeks (or months) practicing for this performance, and I think it paid off!

First tune is "That's My Weakness Now"

Very nice

Followed by "Bow-Wow"

OMG into Schubert's "Erlkong" what next?

Special effects😂 where pass the sound into people room?

That must be a big deal to haul around to each gig...