A 1956 RCA Victor promotional documentary, The Sound And The Story, shows a detailed account of how vinyl records are fabricated. A recording of Tchaikovsky’s ‘Romeo and Juliet’ may only run at 19 minutes in length but the process of recording and making the vinyl record involves around 375 people and about 3,000 man-hours of work. The film takes you on a long journey through all steps of the process from recording the initial performance at the concert hall to listening to the recording in your home.
Despite the fact that the number of pressing plants has decreased and the video is over 50 years old, very little has changed about the basic process of making records.