[78-L] Famous Labels and other record anomalies in movies

[Sammy Jones]

The Navigator with Buster Keaton?

Sammy Jones

> The Batwing style seems to have been generic among film studios, but 
> there's
> one movie that takes place in the US where a Canadian pressing is clearly
> shown. Actually there are two that come to mind..one is a mock label and 
> the
> other is meant to represent the actual record being played (or it might be 
> the
> same record).
>
> Anyone know either or both of these?
>
> dl
>
>> On 9/16/2012 4:54 PM, DAVID BURNHAM wrote:
>>> I suspect that my memory may be less than perfect but when I was a 
>>> child, I saw a movie called "Blue Gardenia" and the only thing I 
>>> remember about this movie was a close up of - what I remember as - a 
>>> Victor record with, (I think), a Canadian style batwing label.  It has 
>>> been 60 years since I saw this movie, I haven't been able to find it on 
>>> a video or anything since, but that's my recollection.
>>>
>>> In the movie 32 films about Glenn Gould or whatever it was called, there 
>>> is a scene where Glenn is urging a chamber maid to listen to his latest 
>>> record.  What he puts on the turntable is a red labeled record.  I don't 
>>> think Glenn Gould ever made a red labeled record.
>>>
>>> You often see records playing at the wrong speed - LPs on an old 
>>> acoustic player playing at a 78 ish speed or 78s being played at a 
>>> slower speed, 45 or 33; and many examples of an acoustic player emitting 
>>> high fidelity sound.
>>>
>>> db
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