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3. Re: Stereo

Subject: 3. Re: Stereo
From: "Bernie Krause" bigchirp1
Date: Sun Jan 3, 2010 11:01 am ((PST))
Right you are, Dan. I stand corrected. Although, most theatres
eliminated the third channel and ultimately opted for only two, which
was the way I first heard it when I was four years old just after the
start of WWII in a NY theatre.

On Jan 3, 2010, at 9:54 AM, Dan Dugan wrote:

>> Historically, the first "stereo" recording was the Disney film,
>> "Fantasia." The 1940 soundtrack version was recorded in 1939 using
>> multiple tracks recording (transmitted over special phone lines, no
>> less) various classical pieces with Leopold Stokowski's Philadelphia
>> Orchestra and then mixed down (mostly) to two, since that's what only
>> a few theatres were technically able to handle at the time. Folks
>> were
>> mesmerized by the sense of space.
>
> Actually, the "Fantasound" version, that only played in half a dozen
> big cities, was three tracks plus a control track of audio tones
> that live-mixed the three tracks to the theater speaker channels.
> See the fascinating story:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fantasound
>
> -Dan Dugan
>
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> Krause
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