“COMMAND PERFORMANCE” 1949 RCA VICTOR 78 RPM & 45 RPM RECORD MANUFACTURING PART 2 XD39044a

Want to support this channel and help us preserve old films? Visit Visit our website PART 1: This 1949 color addendum to an otherwise black and white 1942 film (Part 2 of 2, see Periscope Film #XD39044 for Part 1) concludes a detailed look at the process by which a 10” shellac 78 rpm commercial audio recording is produced, mastered, and pressed, featuring footage from an RCA Victor plant of the World War II era. This final portion of the film introduces and promotes the then-new 7” 45 rpm format for “singles,” showing off the concept of colored vinyl with a unique color-coded genre classification system (TRT: 2:35). A family at home in a living room. A mother and father read, while a girl produces a record from a cabinet-style entertainment console. Mother helps place the record onto an automatic record player, which clears another record from the turntable to make room for the new “Blue Danube Waltz” recording (0:06).