Project Detail

Special When Lit

Special When Lit

Synopsis

What made more money than the entire American movie industry through the 50s and 60s? Pinball.

Special When Lit rediscovers the lure of a lost pop icon. A product of the mechanical and electrical age, the American invention swept the world and defined cool.
 
Now it is relegated to a nostaglic footnote deserving a better fate. This feature length documentary joins the fans, collectors, designers and champion players from across the globe who share a world many of us didn’t know still existed.

Details

Year
2010
Type of project
Features
Running time
92 min
Format
HDCAM
Director
Brett Sullivan
Producer
Brett Sullivan, Clayton Jacobsen
Editor
Brett Sullivan, Marko Keser
Screenwriter
Brett Sullivan
Director of Photography
Brett Sullivan, Clayton Jacobsen
Production Designer
Emily Rickard
Composer
Brett Sullivan
Principal cast
Roger Sharpe, Gary Stern, Rick Stetta, Steve Epstein, Lyman Sheats, Tim Arnold, Pingeek, John Broughton, Pat Lawlor, Steve Ritchie, Steve Kordek, Ron Shuster, Steve Keely, Raphael Lankar, Sam Harvey

Production Status

Production Company

Steam Motion and Sound

Unit 3, Blue Lion Place
London
SE1 4PU

Sales Company

Steam Motion and Sound

Unit 3, Blue Lion Place
London
SE1 4PU

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