The
final approval all Edison records and movies lay the
committee lab personnel who sat judgement West Orange. Perfecting the technology
required close cooperation. This had done
in the manufacturing plant and was normally carried out the
staff the satellite laboratory. The studio not
only recorded but also tested records and equipment. Plimpton
fought keep artistic autonomy over the production of
negatives the Bronx. Special equipment that was designed and built
at the central lab needed testing situ. Movie
making had also been taken from West Orange and placed closer
to the artists Manhattan.X-23
Orange laboratory and transferred elsewhere.
The relationship between central laboratory West
Orange and the satellites was more than one master and
servants.
O ft
(Illus. This was especially
the case George Plimpton the Bronx studio. 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
. Many projects required the coordination effort
between the two. some cases, techniques and
processes that had been developed the satellite laboratories
were transfered the central lab 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
