Thanks, Tom,

I was pretty dubious about the 1968 date, given what I knew about the 
Budapest Quartet and what they would have looked like and what they 
would have been up to at that point (most likely not playing anything at 
LoC) - according the ever-reliable wikipedia and other sources (possibly 
based on the same as w-pedia), they pretty much ceased activities in 1967.

Peter Hirsch

On 2/8/2011 4:45 PM, Tom Fine wrote:
> http://www.archive.org/details/gov.archives.arc.47097
>
> A friend at the LOC confirmed that the date listed on the website is 
> wrong. This film is from 1945, showing actual LOC recording practices 
> from that time period.
>
> About 12 minutes in you will see a Scully lathe at the Recording Lab 
> and then a portable disk recorder in use in the field. Then the movie 
> shows a segment of the Budapest String Quartet in Coolidge Auditorium.
>
> -- Tom Fine