Idolator

Sure, the new-media music age has resulted in us all seeing enough "in the studio with..." clips and descriptions of digital-distribution technology to make anyone a budding mogul, but this 20-minute film from 1942 on the making of albums at the Victor Talking Machine Company in Camden, N.J., gives the record-making process a mystique that's been lost to the MP3 era, a time where the building that housed the alchemy that resulted in a long-playing record is now home to pricey lofts. (Shoot, the process even involves pure gold! And furiously bubbling cauldrons!) Unfortunately, though, the person who uploaded the clips to YouTube has disabled their embedding. Perhaps we're supposed to think of YouTube's interface as a nickelodeon for the new millennium? Sigh, the modern age. [Part I / Part II via Random Good Stuff]