[ARSCLIST] Red glass disc, was National Recorded Sound Preservation Study

[George Brock-Nannestad <pattac@xxxxxxxx>]

From: Patent Tactics, George Brock-Nannestad

David Lennick commented:

> George Brock-Nannestad wrote:
> > From: Patent Tactics, George Brock-Nannestad
> >
> > Mike Csontos wrote:
> >   
> >> http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=220052969829
> >>
> >> Any information on the "The Music Shop" operation or the reason this type
> of
> >> record would have been made?
> >>     
> > .............................

. I don't know enough about US history, but it seems that there
> > must be a printed collection of Franklin Roosevelt's broadcast speeches,
> from 
> > which the yellow parts have been recorded.
> > .............................
> >
> > Kind regards,
> >
> >
> > George
> >
> >   
> I'll gladly stand corrected, but as far as I know glass discs weren't 
> put into use in the US until after Pearl Harbor.
> So this will probably be a dub made well after the original broadcast. 
> It would be interesting to know if there is dialog missing during the 
> flip..if there is, then it's an original recorded off the air. 

----- there is very much monologue missing, and it is apparently with a 
purpose, i.e. editing. I concluded this, because on the e-Bay presentation, 
the whole broadcast was quoted, with the disc parts given in yellow.

"The 
> Music Shop" looks like a store brand of blank discs. I've never seen a 
> glass base disc with translucent lacquer like this, although I've seen 
> clear ones! ("Clear-O".)

----- I have only ever seen red ones, never water clear. The color and 
transparency was so confusing to a recent graduate from one of our 
institutions of higher learning (and to the external reviewers!) that it went 
completely un-noticed when he claimed that heavy, red, transparent records 
were made of solid shellac (which is always only present as a binder, 
amounting about 20% of a shellac disc). Some students and purported 
specialists are without any sense of history.

Kind regards,


George