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

[David Lennick]

It was on YouTube (or something) a while back, cut up into 3 parts, but mitout 
Tcherman subtitles.

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On 2/7/2013 6:23 AM, Kristjan Saag wrote:
> 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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