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

[David Weiner]

Hey David,

Thanks for the tip - it's still there in FOUR parts, much better quality &
no subtitles!

Dave

On 2/7/13 9:21 AM, "David Lennick" <dlennick at sympatico.ca> wrote:

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