Beatles - 10 inch USSR 78 rpm flexi picture disc (1970)
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Description
Extremely rare original roentgenizdat record from the former USSR (1970) 10 inch flexi record with Beatles image Record plays on 78 rpm!!!
Track on the record: Christie - Put your money down (1970) (NO Beatles music on this record!!)
This record can been seen in the documentary: How the Beatles rocked the Kremlin (youtube) - starts at 11.10
Bone records, or roentgenizdat, were music recordings on an unlikely medium: discarded x-ray plates. During the Second World War in Eastern Europe, vinyl became an extremely expensive way of producing records. Therefore, during the 1930s and 40s, the lack of available materials caused both labels and individual music enthusiasts to search for new ways of production. Music became available on all types of wax and film, but most notably photographic film and x-ray plates. The plates were favored because of their thicker density.
Demand only grew in the USSR in the 1950s when records and tape recorders were in increasingly short supply and music was growing as a necessary escape from political tension. Young people in Eastern Europe realized that they could duplicate records using a converted phonograph and create an imprint of a record on discarded x-ray plates. Used x-ray plates could be purchased for next to nothing from hospitals and medical facilities once they were no longer needed. Then they could easily be cut into discs with scissors. Altered phonograph machines using wax disc cutters and machines like the voice-o-graph could produce grooves in the film that were nearly undetectable. Soviet society promoted science and technology and search of knowledge. It was often students who were studying engineering who would be the ones creating these records. Source: Dead Media Archive
Tags: Picture disc - Flexi disc
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