[78-L] 1928 Film: How A Columbia Record Is Made

[Kristjan Saag]

This is Stravinsky conducting the "Firebird" with the Straram Orchestra
at the Columbia studios in the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées on November 
8-10, 1928.
The other orchestra could be the Columbia studio orchestra; Edmond 
Mahieux, for instance, made recordings with Josephine Baker, at the 
time, for Columbia; Maurice Chevalier recorded with Pierre Chagnon, 
Lucienne Boyer with B Codolban, Costica Bagiac, Iza Volpin etc.
But try to find a picture of those guys!
Kristjan

On 2013-02-07 07:22, Michael Biel wrote:
> I've been trying to re-find this film for several years.  It reveals
> that laminated discs were pressed in the opposite way than we had all
> thought.  The top surface shellac material is first fused to the paper
> layer. This starts around 17:00 in.   Then these are placed with the
> labels under and on top of the lump of core material.  This part comes
> around 20:00 in. All of us thought that the paper layers were pressed
> flat with the core and THEN the top shellac lumps would placed on and
> under the powder blank like Edison did, and put into the press.
>
> http://archive.org/details/ColumbiaRecordingPlant1928
>
>
> There are other interesting things of course, like Stravinsky conducting
> a recording session, and then come a pop band recording session -- who
> is this???
>
>
>
> Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com
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