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Jan 8 09 1:09 AM
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Godziwolf wrote: So there are two slightly different versions of the movie, then? Interesting.
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Mar 30 09 10:14 AM
Sound Questions? This is a great film! I've seen this one about a dozen times on TV and video, but last night was the first time I played it in our home theater on the big screen and listened to it through our sound system.
One thing I never really noticed before (I guess because of watching it on TV) is the great stereoscopic sound the film employs. I came away with a few questions for the members of this board after watching it yesterday:
I was surprised at how much It Came from Outer Space utilized the front left and right speakers to isolate directional dialog from the characters speaking off screen or the explosions for the rock slide in the rear surround speakers. At first I thought this was a remix, but then I noticed it was the original recording.
Even more impressive when you consider this is 1953!
Mar 30 09 3:30 PM
Was this the first 1950's Sci-Fi Film to utilize stereo?
Why other Sci-Fi Films of the 1950's didn't's follow in the footsteps of this film and also record in stereo.
Was it too expensive to record in stereo for low budget Sci-Fi movies?
Were most movie palaces/theaters not equipped to play a movie recorded in stereo?
Did the film going public not even notice or just not care about this added feature?
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Mar 31 09 2:47 PM
I did not pay attention to the sound on DVD of War of the Worlds. Is the original stereo mix on the current "special edition" from the original multi-track stereo mix source material or is only availble on the 35 mm print in the magnetic prints as the multi-track stereophonic mix?
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Apr 1 09 1:01 AM
A friend of mine ran JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH (1959) through his sub-woofer and during Bernard Herrmann's "Main Title" music it nearly shook the pictures off the wall. (Sorry for the box. I'm not quoting another post.) On another note, any chance that some of the '50s 3-D films might be reissued in the new digital format? Everything I've seen in digital 3-D projection has worked perfectly. Maybe HOUSE OF WAX could do some business again.
Apr 1 09 8:28 AM
TServo4 wrote: Was it too expensive to record in stereo for low budget Sci-Fi movies? It DID raise the budget to the point where not just any film could offer it. I've got Universal's breakdown sheet of how much a film would cost extra in stereo. When I find it, I'll post it.
Apr 1 09 9:47 AM
But would it add any expense to record the sound? Since the late 1930s, Hollywood had been recording its music scores on multiple optical tracks, and mixing them down to a mono track. Fantasia may have been the first feature released in multi-channel sound, but multi-channel recording began several years before that - MGM began mixing with a four-track rig in 1938. And studios had been keeping separate dialog/music/sound effects tracks since at least 1939, for, among other reasons, aiding in dubbing into foreign languages.
What it be correct to guess that most of the added expense of releasing a movie with stereo sound would come in making the prints?
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