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Story: Recording companies and studios

Record manufacture, 1958

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The local market for sound recordings was so healthy around 1958 that music recorded overseas was reproduced for sale by small factories in this country. This 1958 newsreel describes the process of small-scale record manufacture.

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Reference: Pictorial Parade 77. National Film Unit, 1958

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Mark Derby, Recording companies and studios – Homegrown hits, 1950s to 1960s, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/video/45101/record-manufacture-1958 (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Mark Derby, published 2 October 2014.