“COMMAND PERFORMANCE” 1949 RCA VICTOR 78 RPM & 45 RPM RECORD MANUFACTURING PART 1 XD39044

Want to support this channel and help us preserve old films? Visit Visit our website PART 2: This 1942 black and white film (Part 1 of 2, with a 1949 color finale) offers a fully detailed and carefully narrated look at the process by which a 10” shellac 78 rpm commercial audio recording (or a 331⁄3 rpm electrical transcription disc) is produced, mastered, and pressed, featuring footage from an RCA Victor phonograph record plant of the World War II era. This film concludes in color as Periscope Film #XD39044a, which introduces 7” vinyl 45 rpm recordings (TRT: 16:50). Distributor leader. Title card: “Movie Wonderland, 6116 Glen Tower, Hollywood, California” (0:07). “Radio Corporation of America, RCA Victor Presents Command Performance, A William J. Ganz Production” (0:14). “Narrated by Milton Gross” (0:16). Aerial photography. A splice and jump cut. A man surveys the master recording vaults of RCA Victor (likely in Camde