Re: [ARSCLIST] Strips of plastic play audio when you run your teeth over them

[George Brock-Nannestad <pattac@xxxxxxxx>]

From: Patent Tactics, George Brock-Nannestad

Will Prentice wrote:

> George Brock-Nannestad wrote:
> 
> ----- yes, the German Tefifon was a cartridge with an endless strip of 
> plastic ... <snip> It was a reproduction format only.
> 
> 
> 
> Tefi did produce a recordable medium similar to that which George
> describes. The linguist and musicologist Arnold Bake used a Tefifilm
> recorder during his travels in India. The following comes from the
> journal Ethnomusicology Vol 38 No 3 (Fall 1994) p566, in a review of a
> VHS video entitled "Bake Restudy 1984" by Nazir Jairazbhoy and Amy
> Catlin:
> 
> "On their third trip (1937-46) Bake added to his equipment the unique
> Teficord audio recorder that cuts grooves into the gelatine along the
> length of an endless loop of 35mm film. With the Tefi recorder it was
> possible to make continuous recordings of as long as one-hour duration
> using the longest films (20 meters) which were, however difficult to
> handle." 
> 

----- lovely, Will, thanks! I know a lot about the manufacture of the strips 
for distribution, but I was not aware of the input side. Unique indeed!. The 
format gets a notch in the right spot.

Kind regards,

George