HISTORY OF VINYL RECORDS #1 - The 78 RPM Single. Manufacturing plant RCA

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  @ksteiger · 8 years ago

  Ya gotta love how the guy at the beginning just takes out the master disc and puts his fingers all over it...

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• GA

  @gavinvonmeyer3746 · 9 years ago

  Wow on this day I just realized how stupid I really am. We are a mere plug & play generation. There were God-like geniuses who lived long before us, who had to invent stuff from scratch. I salute them all.

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• XA

  @xaenon · 10 years ago

  A lot of comments speak about the amount of labor and craftsmanship involved in producing records in that era.  What's often missed is the fact that the musicians themselves had to be high caliber indeed - making a master directly from the microphone to the master disc cutter meant no editing, no second takes.  Errors, off-key, etc. could not be edited out.  In short, you had to have talent if you wanted to make a record.  I think very few of the 'artists' today would make the cut, if you'll pardon the pun.

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• DA

  @darrent1000 · 9 years ago

  Every time when I saw any genius invention I always wanna ask how can people invent this and what are the thinking processes.

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• SE

  @sentino68 · 7 years ago

  Holy cow man... so many baths!

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• RO

  @robfriedrich2822 · 10 years ago

  History of vinyl begins with shellac

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• BR

  @brianmars3370 · 10 years ago

  Wow! What a process. It kept Americans employed for sure. I wonder how many times one of those master discs hit the floor before it was copied and the band was told they had to come back to the studio and re-record the record!

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• LA

  @larrydnone · 8 years ago

  What a rigmarole, how did anyone even think up this complicated process? Glad they did though, fantastic!

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• DO

  @dondrewecki1909 · 10 years ago

  The members of the NBC Symphony seen in this film conducted by Charles O'Connell included players like Robert Bloom and William Primrose, both of whom left the orchestra for solo careers in about 1941, while O'Connell resigned from Victor in 1944, so that dates this film to about 1939-40.

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• RM

  @RMoribayashi · 10 years ago

  You can still see the RCA building with it's stained glass dog and gramophone logo when riding the PATCO commuter trains across the Delaware river from Philadelphia to Camden NJ. The massive stained glass window was renovated when the  building was saved from the wrecking ball at the last minute by conversion to condominiums.

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• BO

  @bobroth1951 · 9 years ago

  What great video from the shellac era!! No wonder they were so expensive!! A dollar or even 75 cents for a record was a lot of money in the 1930's.

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• RU

  @rubenproost2552 · 10 years ago

  That man has a good voice.

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