More about record making than the Duke himself, this 1937 promotional film uses Ellington to focus on the wonders of record making in the shellac-based 78 rpm era: download mpeg video, 12 megs or youtube it.
From youtube user WhenSwingWasKing's description:
This promotional short for Irving Mills' short-lived Master and Variety labels not only gives us a glimpse of Ellington and his band in the actual Master/Variety studios (as opposed to a soundstage set), but is one of the very few film accounts of how records were recorded, plated and pressed in the long-ago age of analog, shellac and 78 rpm. Narration is provided by pioneer radio announcer Alois Havrilla.
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