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One of a kind Wax Cylinder breaks on camera

jessieawebb · 701.8K views · 2008-10-10 · 0:34

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Overview

A roughly one-minute TV clip in which a guest accidentally breaks a rare, one-of-a-kind wax cylinder recording on camera.

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Shared as a darkly funny moment of televised schadenfreude in threads about early audio formats and cylinder archives.

Discussed on HN; no positive recommendation is recorded in this export · HN mentions 2016–2021

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Vaslo · 2021-08 · Joke / meme

Everytime I see articles of these wax cylinders I always think of this video on Chris Pirillo’s old show: [VIDEO] 30 second video but kind of entertaining depending on your taste in humor.

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jszymborski · 2018-08 · Joke / meme

I can't help but think of one of my favourite moments of televised schadenfreude when audio cylinders get mentioned. [VIDEO]

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todd8 · 2016-05 · Joke / meme

I was watching G4TV back in 2002 when this happened: [VIDEO] A museum curator (I believe) is a guest on the TV program and showing a rare one of a kind wax cylinder Edison phonograph recording when tragedy happens...

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