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In a World Without 'Like a Prayer': Get to Know Scopitones

Scopitone.jpg BEFORE MTV — in fact, before music videos, before Madonna even — there was the Scopitone. Scopitone players look like video jukeboxes, or maybe robots in a hypothetical Pixar movie.

You can take a look at this forgotten craze — including a glitzy Broadway version of "If I Had a Hammer" — during Arlington's Arts Al Fresco on Friday. Or you could dig up your backyard in search of a time capsule, but that's so messy.

» Lubber Run Amphitheatre, 200 N. Columbus St, Arlington; Friday, 8:30 p.m., free; 703-228-1850. (Rosslyn)

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