Films about Music/Audio - The Thread

[matriachamplification]

We noticed Brian Roth had shared many videos about music and audio. My family and I are going through some of our very favourite videos starting with this educational film.

Vacuum Tube Diode (1981)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zoACB6D2J4A

Please share any videos you find here.

 

[scott2000]

Some of the old Navy videos are pretty good..

not the tv commercials...

 

[Brian Roth]

The vids linked below are nerd/geek stuff!  lol  Not exactly audio or music topics.

Ma Bell (AT&T, Bell System, Bell Labs, Western Electric) produced many educational (and promotional!) films.  Here is one from 1953 discussing the transistor:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9xUQWo4vN0

Anyone who ever had to move a recording studio can relate to this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saRir95iIWk

Bri

 

[jacomart]

Sound City directed by Dave Grohl

Cheers
JM

 

[Brian Roth]

"Tom Dowd and the Language of Music" is a must-see!

"It Might Get Loud" was pretty decent.

Bri

 

[PermO]

The vids linked below are nerd/geek stuff!  lol  Not exactly audio or music topics.

Ma Bell (AT&T, Bell System, Bell Labs, Western Electric) produced many educational (and promotional!) films.  Here is one from 1953 discussing the transistor:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9xUQWo4vN0

Anyone who ever had to move a recording studio can relate to this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saRir95iIWk

Bri

That cutover video  ;D
When they all stand ready with the big cutters waiting for the signal...
Use Beasty Boys song Sabotage as a backing track  ;D

I've done some broadcast cutovers, in the middle of the night, when the clock strikes 04:00 .... You got 1 hour !!!

Yup stressfull situations, but I would not want to have missed it  8)

 

[Brian Roth]

That cutover video  ;D
When they all stand ready with the big cutters waiting for the signal...
Use Beasty Boys song Sabotage as a backing track  ;D

I've done some broadcast cutovers, in the middle of the night, when the clock strikes 04:00 .... You got 1 hour !!!

Yup stressfull situations, but I would not want to have missed it  8)

The Bell stuff is always interesting to me these days.  I didn't know SQUAT about telephony in the early 1980's but was tapped to select a new PBX system by my ad agency employer that owned the studio where I worked.  I was studio chief engineer at the time and The Powers That Be  decided I could make a correct choice to replace an very old, leased Ma Bell crossbar (mechanical) PBX for around 75 internal extension phones.  CRASH COURSE!  PANIC!  lol

It went very well and I witnessed the contractor I selected do a cutover from the old switch to the new Mitel PBX.  After that I did the same thing for the company's other offices as they moved, grew, whatever.  Cutovers/moves always in the dead of night on a weekend.

PermO, I recall you are in the broadcast end of this biz.  Early 1990's I was in charge of a move of the studios of an FM radio station from one office building to another.  We had a STL link to the TX site, so I had to find a second STL system for the new building, including the required STL antennas.  We did that cutover in a matter of minutes by cutting from STL1 to STL2.  Hardly any off-air.

Bri

 

[PermO]

Yup broadcast cable guy, installation jobs, live sound, spend 3 years in a studio as assistant engineer and lots of AV corporate roadshows.

One night we had to move a big old industrial sattelite receiver to another rack in the 4am 5am timeslot.
So in afternoon during a smokebreak I was joking that if we would power it down it would not power back up again as it was running 24/7 for 20 years on end and the electrolitics could no longer handle the inrushcurrent.

So we moved the damn thing, hooked it up, powered it up and... POP!!! dead  ;D

The chief engineer looked at me and sayd "Permo, this is all your fault !"  ;D

 

[user 37518]

You should take a look at Bell Labs small interview of Harold Black, explaining how he came up with the idea of Negative Feedback, it is a joy to watch good old Harold humbly speaking about his extremely important invention.

 

[matriachamplification]

You should take a look at Bell Labs small interview of Harold Black, explaining how he came up with the idea of Negative Feedback, it is a joy to watch good old Harold humbly speaking about his extremely important invention.

All amazing! Given I am presently learning about Negative Feedback and had never heard the name Harold Black this is a great connection.

Here is the video I found.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FC2KnzkUzJk

 

[scott2000]

Pretty good .....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjZ0iLBXPIQ

 

[PermO]

AT&T on vacuum tubes;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-JzxX75oYc

 

[PermO]

Mullard;