# “COMMAND PERFORMANCE” 1949 RCA VICTOR 78 RPM & 45 RPM RECORD MANUFACTURING PART 2 XD39044a

This 1949 color addendum to an otherwise black and white 1942 film (Part 2 of 2, see Periscope Film #XD39044 for Part 1) concludes a detailed look at the process by which a 10” shellac 78 rpm commercial audio recording is produced, mastered, and pressed, featuring footage from an RCA Victor plant of the World War II era. This final portion of the film introduces and promotes the then-new 7” 45 rpm format for “singles,” showing off the concept of colored vinyl with a unique color-coded genre classification system (TRT: 2:35). A family at home in a living room. A mother and father read, while a girl produces a record from a cabinet-style entertainment console. Mother helps place the record onto an automatic record player, which clears another record from the turntable to make room for the new “Blue Danube Waltz” recording (0:06). A small, portable record player (a bakelite RCA Victor 9-EY-3) loaded with two 45rpm singles pressed on red-colored vinyl. The narrator mentions “the world’s most colorful music…the new 45 rpm recordings,” and “non-breakable vinylite.” A woman listens to a 45 playing the Blue Danube (0:39). As the record spins, he notes, “150 records, 24 hours of listening pleasure, fit into a 1 foot bookshelf” (1:12). A promotional display with a “His Master’s Voice” dog statue and a “standard” 78 rpm album of recordings by Arthur Fielder’s Boston “Pops” Orchestra. Another display of 7” 45s shows music by Freddy Martin, Al Goodman, and others in yellow, green, red,…

- Kind: Film
- By: PeriscopeFilm
- Genres: Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/xd-39044a-rca-command-performance-ending-vwr)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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