Rca Victor records manufacturing process 1942 part 2

1942 "Command Performance" video about records manufacturing process.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• rca
• victor
• record
• cutting
• manufacturing
• pressing
• process
• 1942
• disco
• fabricacion
• grabacion

[SweetJaneofGoth]

My grandma worked for RCA. When she got tired of her job she started having sex with the manager. She got moved to an easy job. Then she started getting her enemies fired.

I guess grandma was a slut.

[yopascualin]

@SweetJaneofGoth

No dear. Your grandmother was easy living in a society monopolized by men. It would have been frowned upon if it were a man? Prejudice ....

[kovalmoog]

I worked in the recording studios of RCA Victor in Buenos Aires, Argentina, between 1985 and 1987 and my grandfather worked on the record manufacturing plant (same location) between 1950 and 1967. RCA is the biggest symbol of the recorded sound of earth. Nipper, we will never forget you !

[yopascualin]

Vaya! Trabajaste tambien en la planta de prensado o ..acaso con el torno de corte?? Me hubiera gustado ser tecnico de sonido solo por manejar el torno.

[BernardFeltzer]

Before my time, so I have a question. Are those records the old brittle ones that break easily ? What is the difference between these and records I bought in the 1960's vinyl ?

[yopascualin]

Yes, those these are the famous 78rpm fragile records. The difference is the pressing material. The vinyl is flexible so the shellack records are rigid and brittle.

[kurisux]

Notice at the end, the young girl flips thru a series of disks to find the song she wants to listen to.

That is where we get the term "Album" from: since 78's pretty much always had one song per side, music collections (lets say, an opera, for instance) were put disk after disk into photo-album like books. Thus, they were called record albums, or just album. The concept grew into including ALL the songs on one disk on the 33, and then into the cassette and CD.

One of those crazy things, eh?

[mahoot81]

WOW!! As a 27 year old audiofile it makes me apreciate my 78's more.

[ElvisRocksVinyl]

I always wondered why really old records that were made in the 40s 50's and 60s sound so fine, I mean records 50s and 60s 70s sound so much better than pressing made in recent years, more time was taken in them days and it was a more hands on job, I watched how a vinyl record is made now and its done in half the time, there made in chunks now and I can hardly see people of today checking them to make sure they work alright before it it's the high street, it's it kind of "oh that will do"

[boodang062451]

Damn! This video series on mak RCA making 78's is awesome! And probably toxic as Hell! How did RCA dispose of all those spent chemicals in all those baths? Straight into the river for the citizens to drink straight down in glasses of water?

[PanekPL]

@SweetJaneofGoth yeah. fucking whore.

[RICKROLLBLENDER]

notice how heavy the needle is?

the days of heavy as all F**K needles are over! :D

[victorbrunswick]

Building 17 can be seen in Part I, twenty-three seconds into the film.

[victorbrunswick]

@briancraig81

Of the vast RCA Victor complex only Buildings 15 and 17 remain. Building 15 was the administration building and also where some of the recording studios were located. Building 17, with the stained glass windows of Nipper on top, was one of the production buildings. It has since been converted into luxury condos and is now called The Victor.

[d4seasons]

@briancraig81 i would love to work for a great co. like RCA. you can find out by going into google.

[d4seasons]

@BernardFeltzer the earlier records were thicker & more delicate. the later pressings were made of plastic & cheaper in quality. the past was much better.

[d4seasons]

@kovalmoog i love RCA products. i try to keep all my electronic equipment made by RCA. if not avaiable i use GE, PIONEER, or any great brands. RCA has toned down.

[LastTree]

Simply amazing that someone thought of this!