The process of sound recordings had been perfected by the 1920's yet movie films were still silent! Thanks for posting this good quality video of the sound recording process from the 1920's!
@kfl6112 жыл бұрын
They did have vitaphone, since the teens..
@clarkhum8 жыл бұрын
The only brand in recorded music to have survived from cylinder records to downloads.
@ChristopherSobieniak10 ай бұрын
Even though Columbia passed through other hands including CBS and now Sony.
@captainmanic19594 жыл бұрын
Interesting how they made a master back then! Recording tape didn't come into use in the U.S. until 1948, and the first company to use it here was Capitol Records...which label was started because Johnny Mercer and Glen Wallichs and Buddy DeSylva didn't have the capital to take over a company like Columbia or RCA. Columbia belonged to EMI until the U.S. Government made them sell it off. EMI maintained release arrangements with Columbia until 1951, and with RCA until 1957. EMI acquired Capitol Records in 1956. You may or may not know that Capitol originally rejected releasing Beatles recordings twice in 1962.
@Lucius19584 жыл бұрын
That last bit... *"Francesca, darling! I've just got the latest hit from the Savoy Orpheans: do let's put it on and Charleston ourselves into oblivion!"*🤣
@robfriedrich28226 жыл бұрын
It was the same principle as done till the 1990's. Only differences were, that they record the performance on tape first (this began in the 1940's in Germany) that they changed the material of the cutted disc to lacquer coated steel platters and later to copper discs (DMM process), that they enhanced the way to coat the recorded disc with a silver layer, the use of smaller grooves and the pressing in vinyl, what was possible, when customers stopped to want discs, that can be played without any electricity.
@ilovecops62554 жыл бұрын
They were usign digital tapes since 1890s. This video they used a Studer 8 track recorder with DCA converters. Not muc han chanes in 140 yeas is naytbng the sound recoridign has gotten worses.
@danpetitpas17 күн бұрын
@@ilovecops6255 I think you're being sarcastic here.
@ZachMcCordProg5 жыл бұрын
Wow! The way that a song is released is totally different from how it's done now. Then, It was Labor intensive, and took a lot of time and effort. Now, anyone could record a song on their phone, and release it to Spotify. Man, I'd love to live in the 20's and work at Columbia!
@vinylcity15994 жыл бұрын
People weren't lazy fucks like they are now! They perfected it in the late 50s with microgroove stereo hi-fi! Then they ruined it with digital in the late 70's early 80s! Now thankfully they made digital with much higher resolution than CD, but people don't want it, they want mp3! People rather have the horrible quality of mp3 (which isn't even redbook "CD" quality) , to have lazy convenience!
@marklimbrick2 жыл бұрын
?ten cents an hour and silicosis or worse. Wouldn't have lasted too long as a career move since the depression and radio closed these big plants down.
@kfl6112 жыл бұрын
And some hits, still sold millions of records..imagine all that labor !
@MusicByDamienA2 ай бұрын
@@marklimbrickright, at least now we can pretend it was all fine and dandy then 😂
@01chippe2 жыл бұрын
I like that little dance at the end! 👍👍
@6dBperOctave8 жыл бұрын
How staggeringly labour-intensive it all was - and working with that fine powder with no breathing protection! No wonder they sold at a significant fraction of the average worker's weekly pay. The recording studios are at 73/75 Petty France, a narrow street near St James' Park underground station. The site is now Clive House one of the buildings of the (Orwellian-sounding) Ministry of Justice. Columbia left there for HMV's Abbey Road studios in 1932, having merged with HMV in 1931 to create EMI. It's a wonderful film. The dance band conductor has a look akin to Debroy Somers; and he's wearing sunglasses because of the glare of the film (arc) lights. Though, I doubt that the conductor really stood in the way of the Westrex carbon-button microphone atop its amplifier and power supply!
@rjtwigg12 жыл бұрын
At least the first part is silent. The sound track was recorded separately. It's just piano playing. It would be helpful if it were made in color.
@vinylcity15994 жыл бұрын
14:05 I wish they had use fireproof vaults in the universal fire in 2008 that destroyed hundreds of thousands of Master tapes! 24:55 , Take note modern record pressers , they use GLOVES to handle the record's!
@TTM9691 Жыл бұрын
THANK YOU for posting this!
@ownerfate Жыл бұрын
23:40 this man has probably broken the record for most records broken in a single day...
@digitalmetadata15 жыл бұрын
This looks like the English Columbia. If so, the studio was on Petty France in Westminster, London W1. The film seems crude for 1928. And there is evidence of the acoustical recording. However Stravinsky's first recording were Petrushka and Firebird at Petty France in 1928 which authenticates this.
@michelsavoie69713 жыл бұрын
I love those old 78s.
@alexmckenna11719 жыл бұрын
Fantastic! I wonder if that was Percival Mackey's Band? Looks to be about 1925-27.. The old Columbia factory in Wandsworth I suppose. I wonder how many of these people got jobs at the Hayes plant after Wandsworth closed?
@Madness8323 жыл бұрын
A silent film about making records. There's gotta be some irony in that!
@AlanD967 жыл бұрын
I downloaded an mp3 this morning. I understand it was manufactured in exactly the same way!
@wblynch4 жыл бұрын
Lol... of course!
@thefinalthefirst56384 жыл бұрын
It's in cylinders and DVDs have the same RPM
@MyDegeneration19653 жыл бұрын
As I hold a mint copy of a Columbia 12" 78 titled; ROBERT BURNS--A Man Amongst Men. By the Prime Minister The Rt. Hon. J. RAMSAY MacDONALD, M.P. (Burns Anniversary, January 25th) The year not mentioned but guess about 1928. These Columbia records were of extremely high quality totally smooth surface without surface noise perfected. This film should have been a education to E.M.I. Considering the emphasis placed to quality involved here Columbia laminated all their 78rpm records until the 1931 E.M.I. takeover. Thereafter surface quality dipped a bit due to E.M.I. & also Decca not laminating their new releases.
@yapyap6611 ай бұрын
Incredible the amount of man hours that go into making a record Without mentioning the sourcing of ingredients and building such factories
@kfmiller19472 жыл бұрын
Wonderful!
@01chippe2 жыл бұрын
It’s amazing how they handled all those chemicals with bare hands, and breathing in all the fumes. They must have died horrible deaths.
@artshifrin30532 жыл бұрын
THE TRITE ADDED MUSIC IS AN UTTER DISTRACTION
@kriseckhardt5148 Жыл бұрын
I have made my own recording lathe and now I am perfecting wax and acetate substrates to record on.
@dondrewecki19094 жыл бұрын
Too bad this video doesn't attempt to sync Stravinsky's actual electrical recording to this footage instead of the solo piano.
@thefinalthefirst56384 жыл бұрын
It would match up the clips are too brief
@Road389104 жыл бұрын
The girl at 2:50 has a very grrrroovy little haircut. This has come back into style hasn't it?
@DCBfanboy4 ай бұрын
Not the meme opening music 😭 XDDD
@amfrance6 жыл бұрын
If I may ask, where is the source for this film?
@rjtwigg12 жыл бұрын
I wish this video were made a year later.
@CPorter5 жыл бұрын
why did you put that KZfaq creator music over the video?
@michaeldeloatch74612 жыл бұрын
@ 5:40 - Based on his compositions, I always figured they had men in white coats standing by whenever Igor Stravinksky was let out of the asylum for a concert or session... and here is documentary evidence of same!!!! ;-)
@koolpfanski Жыл бұрын
Who plays hat piano ? It sounds so good. .. I hope you tell me I would love to know.
@pwepersonal20242 жыл бұрын
Now they can run an acoustic or electric recording through a digital process and make it like the record was just recorded yesterday!
@garymattscheck90664 жыл бұрын
This is the English Columbia company,not the American Columbia company.
@barrethansen21583 жыл бұрын
American Columbia used a similar three-layer manufacturing process for most of its discs from the 1900s to the 1950s.
@ralflang55242 жыл бұрын
@@barrethansen2158 Do you know where one can find more information about that process? thx
@mikeg49724 жыл бұрын
Ehhh....Back in my day sonny, we made records like......
@davidclarke10 Жыл бұрын
How was shellac records like from vinyl?
@danpetitpas17 күн бұрын
If you dropped a shellac record on the floor, they would shatter. They were very brittle. The grooves were wider and a record usually only had 3 minutes of sound on a 10" platter.
@Road389104 жыл бұрын
Just a guess but I think one third of the workers you see have been through Ellis Island, one third are children of parents who have been through Ellis Island and one third have pre Civil War ancestors. Discuss and comment.
@gigteevee61184 жыл бұрын
This was filmed at their South London plant, in Earlsfield, so no one's from via Elllis Island.... Bit of a long commute to the UK otherwise.
@Road389104 жыл бұрын
Columbia Records have a Cricket Club......! What?
@RJDA.Dakota4 жыл бұрын
Probably only in England.
@jmj4879 Жыл бұрын
😊
@avisiktachakraborty34382 жыл бұрын
Preserve old time....culture record store this way....gorgeous time then...
@danpetitpas17 күн бұрын
Silent movies were often accompanied by such music, usually a piano player next to the screen.
@robfriedrich28226 жыл бұрын
The most surviving shellacs have massive shellac, no layers.
@ralflang55242 жыл бұрын
What are the layers made from and why did they make it like that, where can one find some technical information about that?
@robertprochko6331 Жыл бұрын
@@ralflang5524 Columbia used laminated pressings from the time of the introduction of "Double-Disc" records in 1908 up to the end of the 78 era. The core of the record was made of fairly coarse, strong material, and the playing surfaces of very fine composition. The "New Process" Columbia discs of the 1920s and 1930s tend to have exceptionally quiet surfaces. They also stand up well to wear. Far superior to the general run of pressings offered by Victor or the Gramophone Company. Unfortunately, lamination cracks can be a problem on Columbia discs, but they are a minor inconvenience compared to a crack in a solid Victor pressing.
@HarborGuy Жыл бұрын
A long drawn-out process it's a wonder they ever made a recording lol
@jerrywatt68135 ай бұрын
Ever wonder why all those guys in old pictures has eye patches ? 😊
@guitarmad64712 жыл бұрын
very medievil mmmm and shellac lungs too mmmm
@paulhelman23767 ай бұрын
Petty much like Santa's work shop andOSHA approved no doubt.
@marklimbrick2 жыл бұрын
108 million sold in US per year when this film was made. Providing lots of employment! Ten years later, radio had taken over with better sound and free to listen. Only 5 million 78's sold. Source wikipedia. Disaster for employment in the depression and a reminder that the public and progress are fickle -iPhones and Tesla's beware. The 78 rpm limped on until 1960's, now people are cutting apocalypse busting vinyl using old CD's. It seems that the process shown here is to make lots of mould copies. So only copper is being used to electroplate. And it looks way thicker than is used on vinyl process now. In the other 78 rpm factory videos on youtube from a later period maybe 1940's, a nickel plating is added to the mould for hardness.
@wywot Жыл бұрын
Piano music is so irritating. Had to mute it.
@vinylcity15994 жыл бұрын
People these days would drop dead from complaining if they had to do that level of work! Society has gotten so nauseatingly lazy! Technology makes you weak!
@RJDA.Dakota4 жыл бұрын
No, technology is just a tool, it doesn’t make you lazy, you make yourself lazy. People nowadays don’t seem to get that you can’t get unless you put something out!! So get up off your lazy butt and do something-anything.
@rweerakkody45653 жыл бұрын
Do something with your life instead of projecting your laziness and insecurities on a KZfaq comments section.
@Tadfafty2 жыл бұрын
Have you ever been on a farm? Or to a construction site?
@gaetanperry Жыл бұрын
Je suis d'accord avec vinyl City les gens de notre époque ne seraient pas faire ce que l'on voit dans la vidéo et ils jugeraient les conditions de travail trop horrible, insalubre et j'en passe et des meilleurs.