A young woman opens ribbon and unwraps a gift package containing a vinyl RCA long playing record album disc of Romeo and Juliet. View she places the vinyl record on her phonograph turntable and starts playback. A film titled ' The sound and the story' shows the sound recording procedure at the Symphony Hall in Boston, Massachusetts. View of woman studying cover jacket of her new record album. Exterior view of Symphony Hall building in Boston Massachusetts in the mid 1950s. Interior view of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, circa 1956, in rehearsal under the baton of Music Director Charles Munch. The orchestra plays as a sound engineer of RCA (Radio Corporation of America) sits at a control panel. Close up view of meters on the recording console. Music being played is recorded on magnetic tapes. Close up view of reel to reel recording tape running on recording machine. Views of Maestro Munch, and various sections of the orchestra while they play under conductor Munch. Stereophonic or stereo recording equipment configuration is shown. View of two early home stereo speakers. After the recording, Maestro Munch, smoking a cigarette, sits with the recording engineer and listens to the recording. Close up view of a manufactured RCA vinyl record spinning on a phonograph turntable.
Post production process steps in the creation and manufacture of a phonograph record. Creation of lacquer master in New York, and handling at processing plant for lacquer master disc in Indianapolis, Indiana. View of magnetic tape reel to reel tape machines running after recording a performance. Overview of steps as the sound recording is transferred to record by a recording engineer. An engineer determines groove width according to pitch of the music. Close up view of meters and dials on recording playback equipment in studio. Shows creation of a lacquer master and its positioning on spindle of turntable. Also shows steps in creating mold and finally the stamper format. A woman is shown placing the original recording tape in shelves of a library -like vault area for safe keeping. Shows inspection of record grooves through a microscope, and silvering of lacquer master for creation of metal copies of the master, with layers of silver, nickel, and copper. Record tester listens to a record in audio testing. Nickel stamper is created from mold. Scenes show each step in the record creation process.
Phonograph music records, in long play and 45rpm form, being produced, manufactured, inspected, verified, packaged, and shipped at a RCA Corporation production facility in the United States. Engineer works to create first pressing a long play record album. Shows granular vinyl used, creation of liquid vinyl ready for molding, and pressing of vinyl to create phonograph record pressing on pressing machine. Engineer delivers the first pressing to other employees in charge of quality inspections, including visual inspections and audio playback. After approval, mass production pressing begins for the record. View of factory and processes for pressing records. Packaging process underway. Shows large punch card machines being used for managing shipment information and shipment quantities. Staff in shipping area involved in final packaging, boxing, and shipment of vinyl phonograph records. Also scenes of reel-to-reel tape duplication machines operating in mass production of tape recordings. Montage of scenes showing many vinyl records of the 1950s under the RCA label. View of Maestro Charles Munch, conductor, directing orchestra. View of a phonograph record player turntable turning, and playing a RCA vinyl record.
A film titled "The world's telephone workshop". Opening scene shows ceremony on March 10, 1916, with Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone, unveiling a plaque at the invention site of the telephone in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. The plaque, at 109 Court Street, states "Here the Telephone was Born, June 2, 1875" and it notes that it was placed by The Bostonian Society and the New England Telephone and Telegraph Company. Alexander Graham Bell tips his hat to the crowd as they celebrate the unveiling. View of Western Electric Company plant in Chicago as smoke emerges from chimneys. Turbines in coal power plant. Massive group of thousands of American workers gathered together, from all walks of life, who are employed in the telephone industry.
Workers work on various machines at Western Electric Company to manufacture telephone in Chicago,Illinois. Presses,planes,drills and mining machines in operation at the plant. Wires being stranded.
Workers assemble telephone parts at Western Electric Company in Chicago,Illinois. Manufactured telephones being inspected by workers at the plant.
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