Unusual types of gramophone records - Wikipedia Inside-to-outside recording and hill-and-dale recording. In the late 1920s and early 1930s the Vitaphone sound system used large sixteen-inch 33 + 1 ⁄ 3 rpm records to provide the soundtrack for motion pictures. The record rotated in the usual clockwise direction but the groove was cut and played starting at the inside of the recorded area ...