An RCA Educational Moment...
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An RCA Educational Moment...
"The phonograph is not of any commercial value."
Thomas Alva Edison - Comment to his assistant, Samuel Insull.
"No one needs a Victrola XX, a Perfected Graphophone Type G, or whatever you call those noisy things."
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Thomas Alva Edison - Comment to his assistant, Samuel Insull.
"No one needs a Victrola XX, a Perfected Graphophone Type G, or whatever you call those noisy things."
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Re: An RCA Educational Moment...
Fascinating!
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Re: An RCA Educational Moment...
Thank you for sharing this video. I hope others take the time to look at it.
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Re: An RCA Educational Moment...
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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Re: An RCA Educational Moment...
Very entertaining, thanks for posting it!
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Re: An RCA Educational Moment...
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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Re: An RCA Educational Moment...
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?
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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Re: An RCA Educational Moment...
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.
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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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Re: An RCA Educational Moment...
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