Can somebody explain to me V disc 78 records?

[Swing Band Heaven]

I've seen 12" vinyl V disks but as stated above vinyl in its earlier forms was used for professional purposes much earlier. The earliest "vinyl" disk I have is from April 1936. I'm saying "vinyl", it definately isn't shellac but I am not quite sure what it is. The disk is 16" and quite thin and light and the surface is very quiet and pratically silent. V disks are great and contain recordings of songs different to the commercial releases and also many songs never recorded commercially by the band in question - a real treasure trove.

S-B-H

[hillndalefan]

The Marconi Velvet-Tone records were of a substance I've never figured out, but they were produced from standard Columbia masters and were flexible.
The Military model portable that was made for the V-discs has a turntable
that I recognize as being made by General Industries Corporation, which also
made the variable-speed "flyer" turntable [electric] which used that same
pressing in the same color flocking. General Industries was the successor
to the General Phonograph Company, which had formerly been the Otto Heineman
Phonograph Company, the creator of the OkeH, later OKeh records.

[larryh]

I recently ran across a few of these that I passed along on ebay. Of the six records five were vinyl and one shellac.

Larry