List of Movies with a cutting lathe

A spot for keeping track of especially cool (informative, fun) videos, photos, scans and other links about record cutting. (You can post them in other sections. Eventually they may end up here.) NOTE: Please put *Circuits, Schematics and Manuals* in the section with that name.

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blacknwhite
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Post: # 7240Unread post blacknwhite
Fri Jan 08, 2010 11:57 pm

Jordiphon wrote:Hi.
This is a RCA 73-B I think

Minute 1:57

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQBcbLk5qLg&feature=email
Yes. Nice, never seen one of these in motion. This is the cutterhead I use.

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Post: # 28492Unread post Angus McCarthy
Sat Jan 11, 2014 10:03 pm

Here's a clip from the Jimmy Durante film "Two Sisters From Boston", depicting Lauritz Melchior making an acoustic recording. The lathe makes a quick appearance at 1:43:
The vignette at the end is priceless.

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Sun Jan 12, 2014 7:16 pm

Nightmare Alley - Psychiatrist uses a Meissner to record sessions.
Funny Lady - Fanny Brice in recording studio - I think it's a 6n used when she records "More Than You know".
Dance with Me Henry - Abbott & Costello. Presto K used to secretly record criminal's conversation
A Song is Born - Danny Kaye - I think another 6N used by music professors.
Unfaithfully Yours - Rex Harison - Don't know make or model - uses disc cutter as part of involved murder scheme (Did someone mention this one already?)

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Sun Jan 12, 2014 7:29 pm

Songcatcher - Edison cylnders used to capture field recordings in Apalachia

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Sat Jul 17, 2021 10:21 am

Lots of lathe action throughout this one. The Unsuspected. Character is a radio host in the 40s and lathe is featured a bunch of times. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0039941/. Pretty good movie too. Even a lacquer thrown into the fireplace (a little disappointing.) Here's a clip I found...

https://www.tcm.com/video/206271/unsuspected-the-1947-movie-clip-i-rather-enjoy-playing-god

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Tue Jan 11, 2022 5:02 pm

François Truffaut, Das geheimnis der falschen Braut mit Catherine Deneuve und Jean-Paul Belmondo

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Wed Jan 12, 2022 10:15 am

https://www.tcm.com/video/206271/unsuspected-the-1947-movie-clip-i-rather-enjoy-playing-god

Hmmmm... the room must have been cooled with liquid nitrogen if a metal lacquer shattered when smacked over the guy's knee. 8)

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Sun Feb 19, 2023 1:33 pm

Youtube clip of George Formby doing 'Leaning on a Lamp Post' in a studio.

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Post: # 63411Unread post SONARC
Sun Sep 24, 2023 10:17 pm

I was just reminded of this older thread while watching a remake of an Agatha Christie story, re-titled for the BBC in 2015 as, "And Then There Were None".
In Episode 1, a record is shown being cut, which contains allegations against the ten characters who are ultimately picked off one at a time, for various offenses.

As of the time I'm posting this, the story is on Apple TV; someone has also posted it on youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsOSpBKIgZI

At approximately 4:18 in the first episode, there is a pretty good view of the lathe, although I'm not familiar with the model being used.
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Post: # 63525Unread post boryo
Thu Oct 12, 2023 1:33 am

O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)

Very shiny Presto 6N in here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDDEqgmGIVg

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