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Date: Sun Jan 3, 2010 12:09 pm ((PST))
http://www.abbeyroad.co.uk/news/story/?newsid=3D22
Bernie Krause wrote:
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> 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:
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> >> 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
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fantasound>
> >
> > -Dan Dugan
> >
> > ------------------------------------
> >
> > "While a picture is worth a thousand words, a
> > sound is worth a thousand pictures." R. Murray Schafer via Bernie
> > Krause
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