[78-L] Lubin Victor film

[Philip Carli]

Ironically, there had been a fire at Lubin's Philadelphia vaults on 13 June 1914, and the company was rapidly reorganizing to meet its distribution problems when the Victor film was shot on the 19th.  I expect that very few copies would have been struck in the midst of Lubin's immediate laboratory chaos, and the whereabouts of any copy of the Victor film are unknown at this time; that said, all Lubin productions are extremely rare to-day, and fewer of the company's films survive than those of the other major early American "Trust" companies (Edison, Biograph, Essanay, Kalem, Selig, and Vitagraph).  Evidently there are frame enlargements in "The Voice of the Victor" which Jim Walsh reprinted in his HOBBIES article on conductor Walter B. Rogers.  Philip Carli
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From: 78-l-bounces at klickitat.78online.com [78-l-bounces at klickitat.78online.com] on behalf of Mike Daley [mikedaley at gmail.com]
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Subject: [78-L] Lubin Victor film

I came across this reference in the memoirs of early Victor recording
engineer Raymond Sooy
http://www.davidsarnoff.org/soo-maintext.html

"Summer, 1914: During the summer of 1914, the Talking Machine Jobbers
Convention was held in Atlantic City, N.J.

The Victor Company naturally felt that it was up to them to entertain
the dealers during their stay in Atlantic City, so they conceived the
idea of having a motion picture made of the entire Plant and its
workings, in order that they might show on the screen, to the dealers,
the exact procedure of manufacturing Victor machines and records.

After many days of photographing throughout the Plant, we were
notified that the photographer would do the Laboratory on June 19,
1914, and that we should be prepared to have a picture made showing
the artists making a record of the "Sextette" from Lucia.

June 19, 1914: We had the recording apparatus all in readiness on the
morning of this day, and met the artists at the Ferry, bringing them
to the Laboratory in autos. They were photographed upon their arrival
at the Laboratory. We then proceeded to the Recording Studio on the
seventh floor of Building #15, where pictures were made of the artists
rendering the "Sextette" from Lucia for this record.

The artists were-Olive Kline, Marguerite Dunlap, Harry Macdonough,
Lambert Murphy, Reinald Werrenrath and Wilfred Glenn.

After making a picture of the artists singing the "Sextette" the
photographer then went into the operating room and made a picture of
what he and many others thought was the actual procedure of recording
a record, but this mechanical work was arranged specially for the
motion picture. After this the employees of the entire Plant were
photographed marching up Cooper Street, about 10,500 in number.

This motion picture proved quite a surprise as well as educational. It
was indeed interesting to the dealers.
The pictures were made by Lubin and Company, Philadelphia, Pa."

Has this film ever been found?

Mike
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