# The 78 Project: Documenting Historic Sound in the Contemporary World

Since August 2011, Alex Steyermark and Lavinia Jones Wright have been traveling across the United States, recording contemporary musicians on a 1930s Presto disc recorder, and filming their journey for an ongoing web series and a recently completed feature film. During this event they screened the film, "The 78 Project Movie," answered questions about the project and their experiences, and demonstrated their process as they cut a record and film the recording live with special guest musicians from the Library of Congress.

- Kind: Talk
- Year: 2014
- By: American Folklife Center
- Archive: [Library of Congress](https://www.loc.gov/item/2021689504/)
- Licence or status: Rights statement at the Library of Congress (as the archive states it)
- Credit: Library of Congress
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

[Watch now](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/watch/archive/loc/2021689504?play=1)