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From: rfg@hound.UUCP (R.GRANTGES)
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Subject: Re: Early Stereo Soundtracks
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Date: Mon, 2-Sep-85 23:19:22 EDT
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Posted: Mon Sep  2 23:19:22 1985
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Well, if there were any earlier ones they didn't get wide distribution.
Because where was the reproduction technology?  In the case of
Fantasia, they closed down the biggest theater in my little home town
of Minneapolis for a month so they could install the new system.  In
addition to speakers on the sides and the rear, they also installed
a giant screen - the same aspect ratio as others (it was a SMPE (not
SMPTE, T hadn't been invented yet) standard) only much larger.  I don't
recall any other major conversion job on the sound until after WWII.
For the benefit of the unitiated, SMPTE is the Society of Motion Picture
and Television Engineers.  THey used to standardize everything in da
movies so da films would play in Peoria as well as Hollywood.

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