[78-L] The recording studio in MGM's Sweethearts (1938)

David Lennick dlennick at sympatico.ca
Mon Apr 20 21:41:03 PDT 2009


Michael Shoshani wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-04-21 at 00:35 -0400, William A. Brent wrote:
>> At 12:00 AM 4/21/2009, you wrote:
>>> On the topic of a recording studio scene set in the 78 RPM era,
>>
>> Mario Lanza singing into a horn in the Great Caruso
> 
> 
> I have, thankfully, managed to escape that movie. May I assume that by
> "singing into a horn", you mean singing into a short wide-mouth
> flared-bell reproducing horn, as opposed to a long narrow-mouth
> conical-bell recording horn? :)
> 
> 

Actually, that one holds up fairly well! I saw it when I was 6. And once or 
twice since then.

dl



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