[78-L] OT? question about RCA Program Transcription audio books

[David Lennick]

They did use it for soundtracks, for a while..I had "Gay Divorcee" (missing one 
reel, I think). Didn't keep it. The sound was exceptionally skewed toward the 
high end and the discs were so encrusted with gunk that even after a few 
attempts at cleaning it, using something that could probably dissolve cinder 
blocks, it was still more than marginally listenable. Graham Newton will 
remember what was used in the cleaning.

dl

On 2/20/2011 5:23 PM, DanKj wrote:
>    Here's some info which recently appeared online (it hasn't come up in searches before now, anyway) - it's all about the
> 12" Victrolac (yes, correctly spelled!) discs and how they could replace 16" discs for Vitaphone soundtracks.
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> http://homepage.mac.com/craigsmith/smpe_site/XVIII_files/XVIII/VICTROLAC%20MOTION%20PICTURE%20RECORDS-BARTON-SMPE%20XVIII%204-32.pdf
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> or  http://tinyurl.com/6kqh7rt
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> Subject: [78-L] OT? question about RCA Program Transcription audio books
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> I don't own these discs (wish I did!!) however I wonder if RCA put out any other
> audio books in the program transcription format other than this one? The Bat by
> Mary Robert's Rhinehart&  read by James Wallington on ten discs LR-1 through
> LR-10? Or is this the only one that RCA put out in this short lived format.
> Below is the URL for a page which not only has clickable labels for each disc
> side but also 32kb/s mp3 files of each side that can be listened to or
> downloaded as desired. Be aware that the discs have some scratchyness to them
> (they are a bit worn) when you play the sound files....
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> http://98.130.146.204/rca_victor_transcriptions/rca_victor_transcriptions.html
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> If other audio books exist in this format any info would be quite nice!!
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