A Revolutionary New Triumph In Tape! (1958)
1958 · Ephemeral film · 15 min
- Documentary
Synopsis
Introducing the giant four-track tape cartridge, an obsolete consumer recording format that survived for eight years.
Synopsis from TMDb
Details
- Studio
- Jam Handy Organization (JHO), RCA
- Released
- 1958-01-01
- Running time
- 15 minutes
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★★★ · Recording tape history · op712 · 2004-08-08
RCA does it again .. in 1958! Invents a product that the mass media could easily use. Also RCA did it again as well..introduced 4trk recordings with this cartridge in this same time frame, which blended over to the reel as the 4-track recorded tape. Can you imagine, in comparison of our world of today with mini-cassettes, DV cameras, celphones, laptops, PDA's-any electronic device that we have our bodies and brains attached to so we can survive and think better, in seeing an inexperienced individual trying to thread a reel machine of some complexity and do it correctly in one pass? RCA was…
★★★★★ · I bought one on a flee market · left wing films · 2005-12-05
the other reviews say it all I only this is a must see on the Archive!
★★★★★ · WOW · KB2ZGN · 2008-03-21
My father had 2 of these recorders. I remember him using them to tape off of TV, the flight of the first American in space - Alan Shepard, and later John Glenn. He got them used from someone, and he was always working on them to keep at least one of them working. At some point he gave up and removed the tape from the carts and loaded them onto reels so they could be played on a stereo reel to reel deck. Favorite of these was the sound track to "Victory at Sea" Problems aside, they were still really cool, and way ahead of their time. He might even still have them in some forgotten corner.