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Orange laboratory and transferred elsewhere. Special equipment that was designed and built
at the central lab needed testing situ.
The relationship between central laboratory West
Orange and the satellites was more than one master and
servants. The
. The studio not
only recorded but also tested records and equipment. Many projects required the coordination effort
between the two. This was especially
the case George Plimpton the Bronx studio. Movie
making had also been taken from West Orange and placed closer
to the artists Manhattan. Perfecting the technology
required close cooperation. some cases, techniques and
processes that had been developed the satellite laboratories
were transfered the central lab West Orange.
O ft
(Illus. Plimpton
fought keep artistic autonomy over the production of
negatives the Bronx. The Bronx studio, like all the
other film making and recording facilities, was theoretically
under the control the main laboratory West Orange. 10-4, 0454) Yet the management the studios
often tried assert their independence. The
final approval all Edison records and movies lay the
committee lab personnel who sat judgement West Orange. Recording had
always been function the lab, but the need place the
studio close the artistic community resulted studio
established 5th Avenue New York 1906. This had done
in the manufacturing plant and was normally carried out the
staff the satellite laboratory
