Vitaphone disc, for synchronised playing with film, 'Broadway Melody', reel no. 2, shellac composite, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, United States of America, copyright 1929. 

Marks on record indicate that it has been played 14 out of 40 instances.

Phonograph company operating early 20th century. Operated out of Camden, New Jersey. Eventually bought by RCA.

From Graces Guide:
1900 After William Barry Owen acquired the manufacturing rights for talking machines from the Lambert Typewriter Co, Eldridge R. Johnson, who had been making talking machines for the Gramophone Co, was left with a large factory, thousands of talking machines and no records to play on them. He filed suit in 1900 to be permitted to make records himself.

1901 Johnson used his victory to name the new record company he founded in 1901 as the Victor Talking Machine Company. Contrary to some sources, the Victor Talking Machine Company was never a branch or subsidiary of Gramophone, as Johnson's manufactory, which had been making talking machines for Berliner, was his own company with many mechanical patents that he owned, which patents were valuable in the patent pool agreement with Columbia. Thus, Victor and Columbia began making flat records in America, with UK Gramophone and others continuing to do so outside America, leaving Edison as the only major player in the making of cylinders, and Emile Berliner, the inventor of flat records, out of the business. All he was left with were the master recordings of his earlier records, which he took to Canada and reformed his Berliner label in Montreal, Nipper logo and all. Edison would soon join the flat record market with his diamond discs and their players.

1902 Eldridge Johnson of Victor Talking Machine Company acquired US rights to use the dog and gramophone as the Victor trademark, which began appearing on Victor records that year. UK rights to the logo were reserved by Gramophone. Nipper lived from 1884 to 1895 and is buried in England with a celebrated grave marker.
Sourced at https://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Victor_Talking_Machine_Co, access 15/02/2022

Victor Talking Machine Co

Camden, New Jersey, United States, North and Central America

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

United States, North and Central America

H7919-3 Vitaphone disc, audio components of 'The Broadway Melody' film, Reel No. 2, shellac composite / paper, recorded by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures, United States of America, pressed by Victor Talking Machine Company, Camden, New Jersey, United States of America, copyright 1929

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'Broadway Melody' Vitaphone disc

Object No. H7919-3

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