I think it was invented (or copied) here before that.
Local scout troup, when we had a functional cinema (long long time ago) would host a charity (scouts) movie night.
They had a candy dispensing machine (chocolate coated peanuts and raisins), that they walked through the aisles, selling handfulls of candy...pay your money, get a couple of crank turns of candy.
At the end of intermission, they ran out of candy, and took a (fake/replica) machine to the stage, and changed rabbits.