File:Advertising Record.ogg

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The Advertising Record, recorded by circa 1906.

The recording begins, “I am the Edison phonograph …”, and explains the novel benefits of the from the first person perspective of the machine. A very early landmark of advertising in modern media, this was played widely in shops to entice customers.

Converted to .ogg from PD .wav file provided by the University of California Santa Barbara Cylinder Preservation and Digitisation Project.

Note: The restored MP3 versions of the recordings from the University of California Santa Barbara Library are available only under an unacceptable non-commercial license.[1] Unedited raw (.wav) versions were formerly available from that site under a dedication into the public domain; while they are no longer available, those .wav files downloaded before the change in policy (dated June 2009) can still be used freely.

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