[78-L] The Butterfly Circus

[Michael Biel]

The record seems to be a laminated British or Australian Columbia. 
There is a sticker over most of the trademark so at first I thought it
might be a black label Capitol but the end of the trademark ...ia can be
seen.  I see the pressing ring denoting a laminated pressing.  The
phonograph is more original than a modern Indian Crapophone, the
modifications might be old.  The only clue it is not real are those two
things that look at a distance to be door knobs for a VV-IV or VI, and
the controls in the close-up are not Victor.  

The song is "Outside" and I wouldn't be surprised if that actually is
the record that is playing on the machine.  The British Dance Band
Discography might disclose it.


Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com

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Subject: [78-L] The Butterfly Circus
From: victrola78s at aol.com
Date: Sun, December 05, 2010 9:40 am
To: 78-L at 78online.com, 78-l at klickitat.78online.com



I just looked at this odd but interesting short film. The phonograph
scene starts at 5:22 minutes. In the closeup it's hard to tell about the
record itself, but from the back the tonearm looks like a Victor tonearm
with a No.2 soundbox on it. It can't be an Exhibition because I don't
see the usual thick rubber flange & two screws on the back that joins to
the front of the reproducer. I think the whole unit is a "Crap-o-phone",
because in the medium shot you can tell the cabinet is either a VV-IV or
a VV-VI. There are the two little sound doors & knobs, easily visible.
Someone has altered the back of the tonearm to accomodate a cheap metal
horn to make it look like a $1,000 open horn machine instead of a $200
tabletop Victrola. Nothing wrong with a tabletop Victrola-none of the
Victor machines were ever junk. But I think here we have the common
situation where the film makers wanted a "vintage look", & to them that
means some kind of phono with a horn-"His Master's Voice" be d
 anged! I'm sure they never have a concern about what we of the "inner
circle" think of their inaccuracies. Phono enthusiasts are of the
minority in this sense.

Dennis "Tungstone" Forkel
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