It's fascinating to think that sound recording was so new it had to be explained. People needed examples of what someone would record or play back and why.
Every new technology goes through a period like this.
A "humans have always done it" advertisement for modern Internet "education":
"As you might have imagined, there are a lot of parallels between this and the internet in the education wave. Just like RCA, MOOCs (Coursera, Khan Academy, MIT OCW, and Stanford Online) let a kid anywhere access lectures from the best professors in real-time, no longer limited by what's available locally. Both waves bundled hardware and infrastructure, like Chromebooks and Raspberry Pi kits, with a promise of modernization. And finally, both seemed to arrive against the backdrop of a broader consumer technology boom."
It's fascinating to think that sound recording was so new it had to be explained. People needed examples of what someone would record or play back and why.
Every new technology goes through a period like this.
The Bell System did this when dial telephone service was first introduced.
They held town meetings with a giant rotary dial onstage where someone explained it and demonstrated how to dial your calls.
And they made an instructional film about it!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p45T7U5oi9Q
The advertisement is too small for me to read, but in 1939 radio and recorded music had been around for decades.
A "humans have always done it" advertisement for modern Internet "education":
"As you might have imagined, there are a lot of parallels between this and the internet in the education wave. Just like RCA, MOOCs (Coursera, Khan Academy, MIT OCW, and Stanford Online) let a kid anywhere access lectures from the best professors in real-time, no longer limited by what's available locally. Both waves bundled hardware and infrastructure, like Chromebooks and Raspberry Pi kits, with a promise of modernization. And finally, both seemed to arrive against the backdrop of a broader consumer technology boom."
The original edutainment?