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Sound recording procedure at Symphony Hall in Boston, Massachusetts, for the creation of a phonograph record.

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.

Date: 1956
Duration: 6 min 53 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675038228
U.S. President Herbert Hoover and others attend funeral of former U.S. President Coolidge in Northampton, Massachusetts.

Funeral ceremonies of the former United States President Calvin Coolidge in Northampton, Massachusetts. President Herbert Hoover and his wife, Lou Henry Hoover, walking rapidly from a railroad train, accompanied by several officials and military officers who escort them to a waiting automobile. Police controlling the small crowd gathered on local residential sidewalks. The President's car is next seen wending its way through a huge crush of spectators in downtown Northampton, Massachusetts. Several views of the crowds. People massed at the front of the Victorian-era Edwards Congregational Church. The church entrance is adorned with black draping. Official visitors enter the church, with some difficulty due to the crowds. View shifts to inside the church, where the former President's bier sits flanked by a military honor guard of two soldiers. Garlands of flowers cover the casket. Scene shifts, again, to the huge crowds outside, and to pallbearers carrying the casket of former President Coolidge through the crowd, followed by President and Mrs. Hoover and their party. The President and First Lady enter their car. A sign on a pole near their car reads: "Elm St." and points toward Pittsfield. Another reads: "Main St." and points toward Greenfield. The President's car drives away through the crowd. Other officials also leave the church and proceed towards their cars. A stalled motorcade is seen in the center of the city.

Date: 1933, January 9
Duration: 1 min 27 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675042737
700 boys participate in a bike race in Boston, Massachusetts from Newton to Cambridge.

A bike race in Boston, Massachusetts. 700 boys ride through the city streets in a 12 mile bike race from Newton to Cambridge in Boston, Massachusetts. Boys ride down the streets as people flock to witness the race. Winners being greeted by a large number of people at the finish line. Winners with trophies.

Date: 1936, April 20
Duration: 1 min 1 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675042775
28th Infantry Division soldiers receive a warm welcome as they return to Boston, Massachusetts from the European Theater.

U.S. 28th Infantry Division returns to Boston, Massachusetts during World War II. A ship approaches a harbor. WACs (Women's Army corps) wave as the ship arrives. Soldiers and officers aboard the ship. A sign on the ship reads '28th Infantry Division'. Soldiers wave as they return from the European Theater of War. Governor Edward Martin of Pennsylvania and Governor Maurice J. Tobin of Massachusetts shakes hands with General Sota.

Date: 1945, August 7
Duration: 49 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675050688
A 100 ton differential analysis calculating machine in operation at MIT in Cambridge Massachusetts, United States

Vannevar Bush demonstrates his differential analyzer, a calculating machine at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge Massachusetts, United States. Views of the differential analyzer, which contains both vacuum tubes and mechanical components. A woman at a data entry machine while inventor Vannevar Bush points to a diagram that shows the machine's processing. Views of a rotating mechanical portion of the machine. A document containing the calculations being printed out by the early computer or so called "robot brain."

Date: 1945, November 19
Duration: 54 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675050700
Tourists watch an ongoing parade and Brockton school children dancing during their visit in Brockton, Massachusetts.

Tourists visit Brockton, Massachusetts. Entertainment planned by the Granges of Massachusetts. Brockton school children dance on an open ground. An ongoing Grange parade led by a band. Decorative floats typify the seven founders of the order and other great events. People in costumes on the floats. 2400 people gathered at a banquet.

Date: 1924
Duration: 3 min 16 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675064801