[78-L] STEREO<<<<>>>>PHONIC SOUNDDDDDDD ^

[David Lennick]

About 15 years ago, a cable channel ran "How to Marry a Millionaire", which 
begins with Alfred Newman conducting a big wide-screen version of "Street 
Scene". Unfortunately, the print they got was not only mono, but the mushiest 
mono imaginable.

dl

Jeff Sultanof wrote:
> Re. Silk Stockings
> 
> There was a soundtrack CD from Rhino some years ago (I don't have it in
> front of me, but I believe it is still in print) and it is in full stereo,
> derived from MGM's multitrack masters. There was a fake stereo version on
> MGM as a two-fer back in the seventies. There may have been a CD issue in
> stereo taken from the released film track itself, but I'm not sure.
> 
> The Hays code came into being in 1934. I am a big fan of pre-code films, as
> some of them are pretty raunchy even today. Some years ago when I began
> writing about them, many were not easy to see. Thank goodness for the Film
> Forum, TCM and DVD; now many of these films can be seen in their full glory.
> Some couldn't even be shown on television without cutting, or not at all.
> 
> Many of the Fox early Cinemascopes had directional sound, in that the voices
> would move when the speaker moved. In a big theatre like the Roxy, this
> could be tremendously effective. MGM did Fox one better. A film like Silk
> Stockings was recorded in four track, and one of the tracks had the
> dialogue. That track was encoded with Perspecta Sound, a pseudo-stereo
> process developed by Robert Fine, whereby the sound moved from left to right
> via encoding. Paramount used it with their VistaVision process (there was a
> VHS version of The Ten Commmandments where the Perspecta track was decoded
> and used for the stereo tracks), and MGM used it for re-issues of Tom and
> Jerry cartoons.
> 
> Jeff Sultanof
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