An RCA Educational Moment...

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"The phonograph† is not of any commercial value."
Thomas Alva Edison - Comment to his assistant, Samuel Insull.

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Fascinating!

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Thank you for sharing this video. I hope others take the time to look at it.

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Enjoyed that, thanks. Interesting look at automation working side by side with those clumsy humans it had yet to replace- bill

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Very entertaining, thanks for posting it!

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Great video, Curt. I have seen another video similar to this from the 1930's-40's showing the pressing and distribution of 78 RM records. For the life of me, I can't remember who produced the video.
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This one?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdhNNaQhgv8

Also, I wonder what happened to that room of metal masters of the Victor Talking Machine Co era?

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I think the metal masters may still exist in New York currently owned by Sony. But I do not know that for sure. I read something recently that led me to believe that the masters were still in existence, but I cannot find where I read that. So, I may just be crazy. :D

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I have it on no good authority that some masters have remained and some are gone. The old dynamiting-at-Camden-in-the-1960's story doesn't seem to be apocryphal. But some masters survived anyway, because they are still here, and that's how we know.

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I have an old Original Dixieland Jazz Band collection on long play. The liner notes mentioned that the metal masters had corroded in storage and the recordings used were pressings. -bill

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