1956 - Colour, Manufacturing, USA: Documentary, Sound And The Story, The

NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk 1956 - Colour, Manufacturing, USA: Documentary, Record Recording & Manufacturing CU Hands of young women in living room opens gift wrapped 33 1/3 rpm LP RCA recording of Romeo & Juliet; MS crosses room to console opens lid, removes disc from sleeve & CU puts record on turntable. 08:50:50 Titles over disc playing. 08:51:09 CU cabinet; MCU woman in chair reading record album notes & listening to music. CU album; turntable. dissolve to exterior Boston Symphony Hall, dissolve to interior lighted sign “Quiet, RCA Victor Recording”. 08:51:58 LS Symphony orchestra playing on stage, organ pipes behind. 08:52:25 CU Open reel audio tape recorder / recording machine operating. 08:52:35 Sound engineers in room w/ equipment. CU speaker, w/ curtain behind. CU & MS engineers. 08:53:19 MS Charles Munch conducting orchestra. CU console VU meters fluctuating. MS Mixing console. CU conductor intercut shots orchestra performing, sound engineers concentrating at console; recording deck reels turning, Zeiss microphone, percussionists & strings. Stereo speakers; Munch & music director listening to concert playback. Dissolves to turntable, dissolves to... 08:57:05 New York studio w/ sound engineer making tape transfer to lacquer master disc. MS threading tape, checks notes, inspects lacquer master blanks. Master disc on turntable, setting up cutting machine. 08:58:28 Diagram of disc w/ groove variations for volume. Engineer w/ microscope checking groove width during cutting. CU cut lacquer master, dissolve to... 09:00:04 Woman files original audio tape in vault / library. Brief shots orchestra & turntable dissolve to... 09:00:30 Master disc packed into can addressed to RCA Victor, Indianapolis, dissolve to... 09:00:38 Women check arrived master discs, assign catalog tracking card. Man checks master disc grooves; disc silvered. Disc electroplated w/ nickel & copper in electromagnetic baths; separated to original lacquer & silver-faced metal master. Diagram of process & repeating w/ negative metal master & separated into metal master (negative) & new mold (positive). Mold cleaned for sound test. Woman technician listening in sound booth for surface defects. Diagram of lacquer to accepted mold to nickel stamper (negative) used in production. 09:05:10 Stamper ground, punched, trimmed & coined. Large record press w/ stampers, vinyl granules of vinyl into vinyl lump by pressure & placed on press w/ record labels; then heated, stamped & cooled. First pressing inspected & playback tested. 09:07:08 Manufacturing, woman operating 33 1/3 rpm LP / Long Play record press. 09:07:20 Automatic machine producing 45 rpm EPs / Extended Play. 09:07:51 Open reel tape copies being produced. Packaging line. Montage of various kinds of 1950s record sleeves / albums. 09:10:10 Production line packers dusting, final inspection & packing recordings in sleeves. 09:10:59 Women using punch card processing machines record for shipping records of recordings. 09:11:39 Warehouse, cartons onto automatic distribution racks which assemble shipments according to punch card instructions. Automated addressing machine. Warehousemen bundling cartons for shipping. 09:13:04 Summary shots: album, Munch conducting, record player / turntable, listening at home. 09:13:45 The End. Automation; Punch Card Computing; Symphonic Music; Manufacturing; Industry; Sound Artist; Promotional Film; Sponsored Film; Industrial Film; NOTE: Any continuous 12 minutes sold at per reel rate. NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk