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Coming up soon...Here's a link to the trailer on YouTube. The shots of the weight-driven disc recording apparatus in operation looks fascinating!

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcbATyomETw[/youtube]

Louis

This explains a little better what in tarnation this is supposed to be :

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/ ... ings/?_r=1

If you want to see a weight driven lathe you can see one working here :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcfZlub3meg

Although - unlike the clip I linked to - these American Epic things would probably be electrical (microphone) recordings rather than acoustic.

Weight driven lathes were found in some recording studios for many years, even into the 1950's.

This series looks fascinating. Thanks for posting!

Weight driven lathes were found in some recording studios for many years, even into the 1950's.

And here I first learned about 'em just last week! Embarrassed to admit it, I am, but there's always room for info! Nobody tells me anything...

Looks great! I saw St Louis' own Pokey Lafarge recording in the montage.