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Record Making With Duke Ellington (video)
More about record making than the Duke himself, this 1937 promotional film uses Ellington to focus on the wonders of record making in the shellac-based 78 rpm era: download MPEG Video, 12 megs or YouTube it.
This promotional short for Irving Mills' short-lived Master and Variety labels not only gives us a glimpse of Ellington and his band in the actual Master/Variety studios (as opposed to a soundstage set), but is one of the very few film accounts of how records were recorded, plated and pressed in the long-ago age of analog, shellac and 78 rpm. Narration is provided by pioneer radio announcer Alois Havrilla.
Record Making With Duke Ellington (video)
More about record making than the Duke himself, this 1937 promotional film uses Ellington to focus on the wonders of record making in the shellac-based 78 rpm era: download MPEG Video, 12 megs or YouTube it.
This promotional short for Irving Mills' short-lived Master and Variety labels not only gives us a glimpse of Ellington and his band in the actual Master/Variety studios (as opposed to a soundstage set), but is one of the very few film accounts of how records were recorded, plated and pressed in the long-ago age of analog, shellac and 78 rpm. Narration is provided by pioneer radio announcer Alois Havrilla.
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