[78-L] Where were the dubbed Caruso records made?

[David Lennick]

Note that when he starts the electrical changer, the record drops down and the 
pickup plays, but in the next shot the disc is still in the upper position. 
Continuity shmontinuity!

dl

On 2/28/2013 12:24 AM, neechevoneeznayou at gmail.com wrote:
> I love the CU of the early 1930s changer.
>
> Did you notice in the first CU where the arm is placed on the early
> record that the turntable has not come up to speed yet but the music
> sounds just fine....the magic of movies.
>
> joe salerno
>
> On 2/27/2013 7:46 PM, Jeff Sultanof wrote:
>> Yes, they did.
>>
>> Jeff Sultanof
>>
>> On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 8:04 PM, David Lennick<dlennick at sympatico.ca>wrote:
>>
>>> Some were definitely done by HMV, like O Paradiso/Flower Song (Victor
>>> 14234).
>>> Didn't Pearl once do a set of all the dubbed versions?
>>>
>>> dl
>>>
>>> On 2/27/2013 7:44 PM, Michael Shoshani wrote:
>>>> I was always under the impression that the Caruso re-recordings with the
>>>> orchestral overdubs were made by Victor, either in Camden or New York.
>>>>
>>>> British Pathe, however, has a small snippet of one of their newsreels
>>>> that shows the process being carried out in London, presumably at Abbey
>>>> Road since the film is from 1932.
>>>>
>>>> The unidentified "master of ceremonies" presents an original acoustic
>>>> version on an open-horn gramophone, then its electrically-overdubbed
>>>> version. Curiously, the acoustic version is a later pressing to which
>>>> the eccentric groove had been added.
>>>>
>>>> http://www.britishpathe.com/video/voice-grafting/query/hmv
>>>>
>>>> Michael Shoshani
>>>> Chicago