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Gorgeous black and white photos from 1954 and 1962 of vinyl records being made, including scans of an album jacket with a description of the process. "How records are made" (Voices of East Anglia, via @chris_carter_)

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How It’s Made did a really great video on cutting vinyl: http://youtu.be/H342sImBY1s
http://www.geekforce.com Hugh Johnson

How records “were” made.

Although, the process probably hasn’t changed much.
Ratdog

The Dead Weather had a pretty cool music video for Will There Be Enough Water that all had to do with vinyl production.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YtNu_T5cEs
Orion Salvaje

archive.org has this http://archive.org/details/CommandP1942 short movie about record manufacturing in 1942. Compared with the How It’s Made linked above I can say that announcer styles have changed more than vinyl manufacturing.
http://www.kmoser.com kmoser

What’s a record?
- http://disqus.com/Kimmoth/ Kimmo
  
  Any transcription whatsoever. This, for instance.
http://doran.pacifist.net/ Doran

I don’t miss the pops and scratches. I don’t miss having to get up every 20 minutes to change the record. I don’t miss discs melting in the car on the way home from the record store.

But oh how I miss the artwork on those big LP jackets.
- http://disqus.com/Kimmoth/ Kimmo
  
  How big is your monitor? I use a 40″ telly.
  
  My dusty old 21″ CRT is about the size of an LP sleeve…
  - http://doran.pacifist.net/ Doran
    
    It’s not the same viewing it on the monitor as it is holding it in one’s hands, just like books.
    - http://disqus.com/Kimmoth/ Kimmo
      
      http://i4.quinbyhardware.com/6910152.jpg
      
      http://www.webstaurantstore.com/libbey-5120-1-5-oz-whiskey-shot-glass-12-cs/libbey-5120-1-5-oz-whiskey-shot-glass-12-cs.jpg
http://storyspieler.net Roy Trumbull

Self publishing was always a problem. The least number you could have pressed was 500. Buying 1000 was better but in both cases you had to store them somewhere until sold.
acerplatanoides

Permanent records are made by skipping class and smoking cigarettes.
- noah django
  
  Oh yeah? Well don’t get so distressed.
  Did I happen to mention that I’m impressed?
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gproa6vzgws
http://disqus.com/Kimmoth/ Kimmo

This picture looks like it’s begging for one of those witty captions some folks excel at…

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/158/384148808_6891c389a3_z.jpg

Help me out here.
http://disqus.com/Kimmoth/ Kimmo

Ye gods, that site is a bottomless pit!

http://farm1.staticflickr.com/80/236458990_4e15e2ceaa_z.jpg

http://farm1.staticflickr.com/108/265518271_b89878f150_z.jpg

http://farm1.staticflickr.com/91/265521254_060c0671a4_z.jpg?zz=1
noah django

best record-making demo is best
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_vvGlLkaaU&feature=relmfu
at 5:40