4:00 I am a (decidedly amateur) keyboardist. I am SO glad that I learned piano in the 1970's when tape recorders were of course common. It's 100% true that when you are playing (especially lessons as a beginner) you are concentrating SO MUCH on what you a DOING that you don't REALLY hear how it REALLY sounds. Tape helped me in a HUGE way. Props to all who learned to play ANYTHING before we could record ourselves.
And little did they realise that I could watch that film on the other side of the world, on my telephone, as many times as I want, more than half a century later (thanks to Periscope Films archives and RUclips).
PeriscopeFilm In 1953 my aunt brought a portable reel-to-reel tape recorder from the UK to Australia for us to admire, and record details of her 6 week holiday. It had the glowing level-indicator similar to that shown in the film, and was easy for me as an 8 year-old to learn about and use.
The way the alligator clips were on the speaker and the other end plugged into the mic input, I think without the shielded cable plugging into the input, there will definitely be noise generated. I would have also thought that the output to the speaker may have a signal too hot for the line input. It probably turned out perfectly. I love watching these old movies. Thank you for sharing.
The "Line" input then probably was designed for a higher voltage than what is used now, since common radios generally didn't have a "line" out, a direct connection to the speaker line was about the only way to record a radio program, short of the tried and true craptastic method of putting the mic near the speaker. LOL
Whatever the line input I sure wouldn’t consider being so stupid as to connect a crocodile clip to the loudspeaker frame in this fashion - especially with the radio being a live chassis utilising an energised coil. Done like this it is quite possible to make the recorder totally live itself. A lethal killer combination which happened all to frequently back in the 1950’s and 60’s.
@@JohnPaul-qs2qf That's true enough in the vacuum tube era, But hell, the average adult then went through WW2, I don't think many were scared off by a little bit of voltage ("If the Nazis couldn't kill me, RCA sure can't!")😜
In my heyday I used to fix Califone recorders and phono equipment for my county school system. I never did experience the wire recorder. From what I gathered the wire recorder was used in airplane back box recorders
11:38 since when did recording go from right to left? Unless this is dual direction making all tape machines I have ever used either home or studio the tape traveled left to right...
Why are your videos in such low resolution? These were presumably shot on 16mm film and so 1080 should be reasonable. Google says 1400 x 2490 is the point of diminishing returns. This is a low bitrate (it's VERY soft even for 480i) 480I video. But it's worse than that because a good 1/4 of the screen is blank space.
Our films are pillarboxed to maintain their original aspect ratio. The versions that we post on RUclips are "viewers" which are ½ the resolution of the HD scans we make and a fraction of the 4k resolution of our master scans (the HD and 4k scans are made available to content creators, documentary filmmakers and producers).
@@PeriscopeFilm I wasn't complaining about the aspect ratio. Good 480, IMHO, doesn't look bad and would probably be reasonable for youtube free viewers. But they are especially soft indicating possibly a very low bitrate at 480. I have a bunch of SVCD disks which are 480c480 and the ones at a high bitrate are excellent quality (when authoring a SVCD, you can define how many minutes of video are on each CD by adjusting the bitrate. If you make them 30 minutes,they look great, but if you make them 60 or even 90 minutes, they look terrible, especially if there is a lot of motion). thanks.
This was made for school boards or principals to promote using tape. If it would have been geared towards consumers, I'm sure it would have been "livelier".
4:00 I am a (decidedly amateur) keyboardist. I am SO glad that I learned piano in the 1970's when tape recorders were of course common. It's 100% true that when you are playing (especially lessons as a beginner) you are concentrating SO MUCH on what you a DOING that you don't REALLY hear how it REALLY sounds. Tape helped me in a HUGE way. Props to all who learned to play ANYTHING before we could record ourselves.
Very nice
And little did they realise that I could watch that film on the other side of the world, on my telephone, as many times as I want, more than half a century later (thanks to Periscope Films archives and RUclips).
Yes it is awesome isn't it. Thanks for your post.
"I love tape recorders!" -- signed, President Richard Nixon.
PeriscopeFilm In 1953 my aunt brought a portable reel-to-reel tape recorder from the UK to Australia for us to admire, and record details of her 6 week holiday. It had the glowing level-indicator similar to that shown in the film, and was easy for me as an 8 year-old to learn about and use.
@@PeriscopeFilm Nixon actually used stylus-recorded vinyl Dictagraph 'belts' - which is why they sounded so crappy.
Funny that there's only a narrator and a mostly mute movie about using sound equipment...
The way the alligator clips were on the speaker and the other end plugged into the mic input, I think without the shielded cable plugging into the input, there will definitely be noise generated. I would have also thought that the output to the speaker may have a signal too hot for the line input. It probably turned out perfectly. I love watching these old movies. Thank you for sharing.
The "Line" input then probably was designed for a higher voltage than what is used now, since common radios generally didn't have a "line" out, a direct connection to the speaker line was about the only way to record a radio program, short of the tried and true craptastic method of putting the mic near the speaker. LOL
Whatever the line input I sure wouldn’t consider being so stupid as to connect a crocodile clip to the loudspeaker frame in this fashion - especially with the radio being a live chassis utilising an energised coil. Done like this it is quite possible to make the recorder totally live itself. A lethal killer combination which happened all to frequently back in the 1950’s and 60’s.
@@JohnPaul-qs2qf That's true enough in the vacuum tube era, But hell, the average adult then went through WW2, I don't think many were scared off by a little bit of voltage ("If the Nazis couldn't kill me, RCA sure can't!")😜
In my heyday I used
to fix Califone recorders and phono equipment for my county school system. I never did experience the wire recorder. From what I gathered the wire recorder was used in airplane back box recorders
Thank God for cassettes.
11:38 since when did recording go from right to left? Unless this is dual direction making all tape machines I have ever used either home or studio the tape traveled left to right...
In the early days of tape recorder manufacture, there was no standard 'way' the tape should travel.
5min in and don’t know what this is about. Perhaps I just wanted to hear sound.
Why are your videos in such low resolution? These were presumably shot on 16mm film and so 1080 should be reasonable. Google says 1400 x 2490 is the point of diminishing returns. This is a low bitrate (it's VERY soft even for 480i) 480I video. But it's worse than that because a good 1/4 of the screen is blank space.
Our films are pillarboxed to maintain their original aspect ratio. The versions that we post on RUclips are "viewers" which are ½ the resolution of the HD scans we make and a fraction of the 4k resolution of our master scans (the HD and 4k scans are made available to content creators, documentary filmmakers and producers).
@@PeriscopeFilm I wasn't complaining about the aspect ratio. Good 480, IMHO, doesn't look bad and would probably be reasonable for youtube free viewers. But they are especially soft indicating possibly a very low bitrate at 480. I have a bunch of SVCD disks which are 480c480 and the ones at a high bitrate are excellent quality (when authoring a SVCD, you can define how many minutes of video are on each CD by adjusting the bitrate. If you make them 30 minutes,they look great, but if you make them 60 or even 90 minutes, they look terrible, especially if there is a lot of motion).
thanks.
There are "Little Dirty Johnny" toys.
same voice of dr. stephen Hawkins?
A little too serious. They should have put some humor into it.
This was made for school boards or principals to promote using tape. If it would have been geared towards consumers, I'm sure it would have been "livelier".