eli5 Non electric record players

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I was watching the movie “against the ice” and they had a record player in 1909 deep in Greenland with 0 electricity, but the record player still played. I understand that it’s a movie, but I can’t see them just having a place with no electricity playing a record player. Do these actually exist? And if so, how?

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That is the original gramophone/phonograph. LPs and vinyl are mechanically encoded (not magnetic or electronic). The grooves on the record replicate the vibrations needed to make the recorded sound. A needle moving in this groove vibrates and that vibration is sent through a horn (all mechanical) which amplifies the vibration to make a sound. The sound won’t be very loud (so definitely not like any movie reconstruction) so the listener would have to be fairly close to the horn.

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