[Dixielandjazz] Question re Tommy Dorsey Stereo Film Clip

[Stan Brager]

Larry;

I don't think that it was Edison who invented stereo. What you're describing
sounds like stereo but was invented in 1931. Here's more information:

"The first 'binaural' recordings were made '33 by EMI, using separate tracks
on the record, a two-headed tone-arm playing both at once; but methods of
cutting stereo grooves had been patented in England in 1931, invented by
EMI's Alan Blumlein. Stereo records were made '32 but the process was not
then commercially viable because of the noisy materials of which records
were made."

The source for this information is the following website:

http://www.musicweb-international.com/encyclopaedia/r/R37.HTM

Additional information can be found in the book "From Tin Foil To Stereo" by
Oliver Reed & Walter L. Welch on page 426.

Stan
Stan Brager
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "LARRY'S Signs and Large Format Printing" <sign.guy at charter.net>
To: "Stan Brager" <sbrager at socal.rr.com>; "Fr M J (Mike) Logsdon"
<mjl at ix.netcom.com>; "m - DJML" <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
Sent: Saturday, July 23, 2005 7:32 PM
Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] Question re Tommy Dorsey Stereo Film Clip


> Edison developed the first stereo recorder/player but didn't develop it
> because it was impractical meaning he couldn't make any money from it.  I
> believe it had a dual stylus that made two separate tracks in the wax.
> Larry Walton
> St. Louis
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Stan Brager" <sbrager at socal.rr.com>
> To: "Fr M J (Mike) Logsdon" <mjl at ix.netcom.com>; "m - DJML"
> <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
> Sent: Saturday, July 23, 2005 3:09 PM
> Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] Question re Tommy Dorsey Stereo Film Clip
>
>
> > Mike;
> >
> > There are 2 ways that this could have happened:
> >
> > 1) Some have suggested that the sound could have been caught by two mics
> > going into 2 recorders. This would enable the movie's actors to move
while
> > the sound would approximate what he would be hearing. I discount this
> > theory. All that the sound engineer would have to do is to lower the
> volume
> > as the camera moves away from the bandstand. A stereo signal would be of
> > little use to movie houses of that day - 1943 to 1946 or so.
> >
> > 2) It would be easy to create a "stereo effect" for today's market using
> > techniques developed by DJML member Richard Broadie,  Robert Parker
and/or
> > others.
> >
> > Either theory or others could be what has really happened.
> >
> > Stan
> > Stan Brager
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: "Fr M J (Mike) Logsdon" <mjl at ix.netcom.com>
> > To: "m - DJML" <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
> > Sent: Friday, July 22, 2005 10:07 PM
> > Subject: [Dixielandjazz] Question re Tommy Dorsey Stereo Film Clip
> >
> >
> > > Please forgive my ignorance, but I'm uncertain about something.  The
> > > 1943 film was, of course, in mono.  But when was the stereo track
> > > recorded?  1943?  If not, how was a stereo track so many years later
so
> > > perfectly matched to a 1943 film (solos, tempo, etc)?,
> > > -- 
> > > Etc,
> > >
> > > Fr M J "Mike" Logsdon
> > > Special Assistant to the Presiding Archbishop
> > > North American Old Roman Catholic Church (Utrecht Succession)
> > > www.naorc.org
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > Dixielandjazz mailing list
> > Dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com
> > http://ml.islandnet.com/mailman/listinfo/dixielandjazz
>