The Red Raven Movie Records are a fun toy that allows a child to listen to a record and enjoy an animated image at the same time..

Click on any of the images to see an animated Red Raven Movie Record (courtesy of Dan Gilvezan). Click Mary Had a Little Lamb to hear the Red Raven Movie Record version.

M-11 On the Merry-Go-Round		M-13 Mary Had a Little Lamb

For a brief history of Morgan Development Laboratories "Red Raven Records" and a listing of Red Raven Records see the Wolverine Antique Music Society (W.A.M.S.) link by clicking W.A.M.S.

Pictured above are Red Raven records in their original sleeve. To the right is the 78 rpm Red Raven Movie Record Santa Claus is comin' to Town.
	The 16 images on the movie record equal the 16 mirrors on the Red Raven's carousel-like attachment, creating the optical effect of motion pictures when you look at the mirror.

Red Raven Logo on blue background, 1956

A mirrored "Sound-Vision Toy" similiar to the Red Raven system for playing records with animated pictures was marketed in England by Selco as the "Magic Movie" in the late 1950's. Magic Movie came with its own "record player" stylus (steel needle) and power was by hand, turning a crank on the top of the mirrored device instead placing the mirror and record on a standard record player.

In the 1920's there were several phonograph accessories that created "movie" effects using a phonograph. Witte's Moviescope could be placed on a phonograph turntable and a slotted zoetrope would then rotate giving the effect of moving pictures. Looking through these slots produced the same "movie" effect as looking at the reflected image on the slot-like mirrors.