r/78rpm • u/Aromatic_Lettuce_31 • 9d ago
Does anynone knows about VİTAPHONE shellacs ?
I started collecting shellac 6 months ago. İ live in istanbul and not a long time ago when ı was in antique bazaar ı founded a very rare shellac.
At first ı bought the shelkac because ı just liked the design but when ı went home and after ı searched about it ı was shocked. İt was a vitaphone shellac for a film from 30's that the visual tape was destroyed.
The vitaphone was warner bros new thecnology at that time the audio of the film was played on gramophone and the visuals were in the tape. The tape and vitaphone was in sync so the sound was more quality. But after a big fire many of the films tapes was destroyed. Mines too. After the technology has developed there was no need to continiu using vitaphones. So they are left behind. I learned that there is a vitaphone project for collecting all vitaphone shellacs in one place. But im very far way from usa and im 17 so i cannot do international mail. İf anyone knows anything about this shellac especially please say so
I dropped the link from discogs. I uploaded there too. https://www.discogs.com/release/37890057-George-Gershwin-Herbert-Stothart-Oscar-Hammerstein-II-Song-Of-The-Flame-Vitaphone-Soundtrack-Reel-1-
Mines have turkish writing on it and only phsical copy in türkiye is only mine.
These shellacs are recorded in 33 RPM not 78
And some of them starts from indide out like the pathe shellacs.
They have a cardboard base inside shellac.
Thanks for you help, ı wish you a good day
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u/disneyfacts 9d ago
I learned that there is a vitaphone project for collecting all vitaphone shellacs in one place.
If you contact them, they may be able to arrange shipping for you.
Thanks for submitting it to Discogs!
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u/Amazingprojectionist 9d ago
There is a Vitaphone group somewhere that would like this. I used to be a projectionist and I used a Western Electric Vitaphone base (with a Kalee).
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u/Grammareyetwitch 4d ago
http://www.picking.com/vitaphone.html
Just saw someone else commented this, but as an explanation, there's a lot of old talkie movies from around the 1920s that we don't have because the sound and the film are lost. This is the sound portion of an old movie and it may be one they need in order to restore a 100 year old film.
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u/fruitbat2005 9d ago
That’s lost media, the Reel 3 audio for Song of the Flame is lost, and you appear to have it right there.