WUSTL Film and Media Archive

Title Work

Title No: 19534

Title: Talking machine: from tinfoil to the lp

Medium: Moving Image

Original Medium: Film

Date: 1977 (Release)

Original Summary:

"Illustrates and traces the growth of the record industry into a multibillion dollar business. This picture essay also pays tribute to Thomas Alva Edison, whose genius gave the world the phonograph, the motion picture camera and the first practical incandescent electric light bulb." - Summary from Worldcat. 

Part of the "Screen News Digest" series - Vol. 20, Iss. 4.

Countries of Origin: U.S.A.

Duration: 12 min

Genres: Educational

Subjects: Sound recording industry

Name As Subjects: Edison, Thomas

Credits:

	Role	Name
	Director	Aarseth, Cloyd
	Writer	Aarseth, Cloyd
	Producer	Aarseth, Cloyd
	Music	Feneck, John
	Production Company	Hearst Metrotone News, Inc.
	Editor	Keith, Charles
	Cameraman	Reek, Edmund Jr.
	Narrator	Weist, Dwight
	Cameraman	Willat, Thor

Items ^x1

	Item	Description
	19534-1	Safety Film : Viewing print

Contained By ^x1

	Title No	Title
	4819	St. Louis Public Schools educational film library