Entertainment Recording Industry

INVENTION Automatic Needle Changer for Phonograph

Open Reel Tape Recorder

LP RECORD COVERS Hip Record Shop

Reel-to-Reel Player

BIRTH OF A RECORD Ruby Murray and Ronnie Harris go to a "hit publishers" to find

Miscellaneous Footage

MAKING A RECORD Making Phonograph Record

A PAGE FROM THE PAST Francis Jehl, who worked with Edison, shows us the original phonograph machine!

Recording Studio

Brenda Lee Makes International

PRINCE PHILIP VISITS DECCA FACTORIES Duke of Edinburgh visits factories owned by Decca - one makes records.

LP Closeups

OPERATIC SINGER WITH SYNCHRONISED SOUND Early method of producing sound film is demonstrated.

15 Year Old Brenda Lee Singing Star

News in Brief: Prince Tours Industry.

HARLOW NON-STOP TWIST

Radio Announcer

VOICES OF THE FORCES Soldiers record messages onto gramophone records to send to

THE MASTER OF THE KING'S MUSICK Sir Edward Elgar with London Symphony Orchestra play 'Land of Hope & Glory' (Pomp & Circumstance.)

LES COMPAGNONS DE LA CHANSON Footage of the Les Comp Agnons De La Chanson choir singing the 'Jimmy Brown Song'.

VOICE GRAFTING HMV studios

MACHINE MADE VOICES Lucille Ball demonstrates a method of making sounds from records into words.

GRACIE FIELDS The singer Miss Gracie Fields at the HMV factory

THE SOUND RIBBON An early tape recording machine is demonstrated by recording a comic routine by Nino Ferrini and Tommy Fields.

THE GATHERING OF THE BANDS Excellent footage of the 'Rhythm', Dance and Band Championship in London.

BENIAMINO GIGLI Operatic Tenor Beniamino Gigli sings 'Largo' by Handel for an HMV recording.

ERIC COATES Composer Eric Coates conducts an orchestra playing his famous composition 'London Bridge'.

LES SWINGLES French singing group Les Swingles record their latest number in recording studios in London.

ALICE MAKES A RECORD Ann Stephens visits children at Great Ormond St and records

STATELY STROLLERS (aka STATELY SINGERS [DANNY STORM]) Danny Storm and the Strollers go through some training at Clifton Hall before singing us 'Honest I Do'.

POP SINGER / HIGH DIVER An item about diving champion turned pop singer Peter Elliott who is combining his talents in a show.

OLD GRAMOPHONE EXHIBITION All manner of old record players are on display in an exhibition in Brussels.

BLIND HAVE BOOKS TAPED New service for Britain's blind provides library of well known works on tape recordings.

TRIBUTE TO DISC STARS Variety Club thanks music industry stars for their contribution to Variety's charity work.

ECHO CHAMBER sound recordists demonstrating how sound recordings are played back

THE INWARD LIGHT Making gramophone recordings of novels for Talking Book Library

FALL OF A FEATHER A giant amplifier exaggerates the sound of a falling feather millions of times over.

POLICE CHOIR Stoke Newington Metropolitan Police Choir sing 'Elizabeth of England'.

LES COMPAGNONS DE LA CHANSON Footage of the Les Comp Agnons De La Chanson choir singing the 'Jimmy Brown Song'.

THE MAGIC BOX (aka JACK HYLTON & HMV) Jack Hylton and his band perform 'Choo-Choo' as we see radio-gramophones being made at the HMV factory.

THE MAGIC BOX (aka JACK HYLTON & HMV) Jack Hylton and his band perform 'Choo-Choo' as we see radio-gramophones being made at the HMV factory.

FAMOUS LONDON CABARETS - PLAYTIME AT THE PICCADILLY HOTEL Good footage of cabaret entertainment at the Piccadilly Hotel in London.

FAMOUS LONDON CABARETS - PLAYTIME AT THE PICCADILLY HOTEL Good footage of cabaret entertainment at the Piccadilly Hotel in London.

IMMORTAL VOICES A look at the history of the gramophone.

WOULD YOU BELIEVE IT? NO. 6 Queer things the world over. Dictaphone invention

WINDING WOOL A novel way to wind wool - put the bobbin onto a spinning record player and let it wind the wool from your hands.

WINDING WOOL A novel way to wind wool - put the bobbin onto a spinning record player and let it wind the wool from your hands.

HIKERS GRAMOPHONE Two hikers have music while they walk after they rig up a gramophone suspended from poles and carry it between them.

PIRATE RADIO AFLOAT Commercial radio station - Radio Caroline - broadcasts from a boat off Harwich

THE MAGIC BOX (aka JACK HYLTON & HMV) Jack Hylton and his band perform 'Choo-Choo' as we see radio-gramophones being made at the HMV factory.

THE MAGIC BOX (aka JACK HYLTON & HMV) Jack Hylton and his band perform 'Choo-Choo' as we see radio-gramophones being made at the HMV factory.

THE MASTER OF THE KING'S MUSICK Sir Edward Elgar with London Symphony Orchestra play 'Land of Hope & Glory' (Pomp & Circumstance.)

Man Seated on Couch

CHELSEA FOOTBALL TEAM RECORD Chelsea Football Team Recording Song

CHELSEA FOOTBALL TEAM RECORD Chelsea Football Team Recording Song

CHELSEA FOOTBALL TEAM RECORD Chelsea Football Team Recording Song

Reel-to-Reel Player

PRINCE PHILIP VISITS DECCA FACTORIES Duke of Edinburgh visits factories owned by Decca - one makes records.

LP RECORD COVERS Hip Record Shop

LP RECORD COVERS Hip Record Shop

NEW TEENAGE SINGER MICHELE TORR New French teenage pop singer Michele Torr at work.

Capitol Records - Recording Chun King Commercial

Library of Congress Recording Lab

Music Historian/Librarian Interview - Vinyl Records

Capitol Records - Recording Chun King Commercial

Music Historian/Librarian Interview - Vinyl Records

PRINCE PHILIP VISITS DECCA FACTORIES Duke of Edinburgh visits factories owned by Decca - one makes records.

Capital Records Building

LP RECORD COVERS Hip Record Shop

Capitol Records - Recording Chun King Commercial

Capitol Records Building

NEW TREATMENT FOR THE YOUNG Revolutionary treatment for ill children

INTERVIEW WITH KHRUSCHEV'S SON IN LAW Newspaper tycoon interviewed in Germany.

HARLOW NON-STOP TWIST Teenagers take part in dance competition - winner does the Twist for over 32 hours!

Capitol Records - Recording Chun King Commercial

MUSICAL QUIZ An entertaining music quiz gives clues to help the audience identify three songs.

ROCK TWICE ROUND CLOCK Two couples win 24 hour rock 'n' roll dance contest at youth club in Leamington Spa.

GUESSING THE MUSIC Four records are played and we have to guess what they are with the help of visual aids.

Capitol Records - Recording Chun King Commercial

PRINCE PHILIP VISITS DECCA FACTORIES Duke of Edinburgh visits factories owned by Decca - one makes records.

Music Historian/Librarian Interview - Vinyl Records

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