According to my new best friend Artie Israel (AI):

Thanks, Artie. Now go away and rewrite somebody else’s script.

Anyway, the LP was instantly recognized as a vast improvement over previous music delivery systems and if you want more in-depth info on the history of the LP (or ‘Vinyl’ as it’s now generically and boringly referred to), read this admirably brisk and informative Wikipedia article. In 1956 RCA made the above film, demonstrating how LP’s were recorded, pressed, delivered. Like all industrial films of the era, it has its own weirdly wooden, wonderfully stiff manner which manages to successfully drain most of the fun out of the learning process out of it.  I love it for exactly that reason. We are in no-frills, mid-century industrial filmmaking-land and the announcers voice is of a timbre that no longer seems to exist, at least not in humans living on this planet. The process of the record-making is really quite remarkable and you could do worse than spend twenty minutes taking this little tour through the miracles of mid-century audio delivery systems. One day, seventy years from now, I suspect someone will be posting equally strange period explanations of AI. Till then, Artie and I wish you a good start to your week. He’s not a bad fellow, really. Just don’t ask him any questions that you want entirely trustworthy answers to.