Peter wrote, "I think it would be a devil of a job to edit classical music using a sprocketed medium".
Having worked as a 35mm film editor, I many times created an edited a "temp" music mag. track on my editing bench. I didn't find it "difficult", since editing a 35mm magnetic dialog or music sound track was normal part of the process of "double system" (separate picture and track). Regarding editing "classical music" using 35mm mag., when I was an editor on the TV series "Combat", our music editor, Dick Lapham created custom edited music cues from a library recorded in Italy by the composer,
Leonard Rosenman who did as matter of fact write a number of classical compositions. So, maybe you Peter, are referring to classical recordings that may have been recorded on 35mm 3-stripe and that editing process. I'm sure our resident Mercury authority, Tom Fine can chime in on how difficult/easy was that label's editing process.
--- On Wed, 4/25/12, Mew, Peter <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
From: Mew, Peter <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] EMI, opera and 35mm?
To: [log in to unmask]
Date: Wednesday, April 25, 2012, 11:36 AM
Hi
35mm in this context looks the same as film, with sprockets etc, but is coated with oxide rather than photographic emulsion.
It is also known as "Mag Film" and is a universal standard.
A 35mm magnetic film recorder looks nothing like an audio Tape Machine, but serves the same function.
It looks more like a Film projector
Up until the 90s most film scores were recorded on mag film, the sprockets keeping the audio in sync with the projected film. There would be 1 reel of Mag film to 1 reel of Film.
This allowed the film editor to edit the sound and picture at the same time.
The audio might eventually end up as optical track on the film reels
I think it would be a devil of a job to edit classical music using a sprocketed medium
HTH
-pm
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Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] EMI, opera and 35mm?
Ironically, 35 & 16mm films are the few exceptions to the rule of international differences in standards. It was established in 1909 according to this: http://www.ehow.com/about_6635136_16mm-vs_-35mm-film.html
--- On Tue, 4/24/12, Shai Drori <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
From: Shai Drori <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] EMI, opera and 35mm?
To: [log in to unmask]
Date: Tuesday, April 24, 2012, 1:36 PM
I thought 35mm was a US thing, like the command and mercury.
Shai
בתאריך 24/04/12 4:35 PM, ציטוט Tom Fine:
> Hi Ted:
>
> But 35 millimeters = 1.37795276 inches.
>
> So either the reporter completely confused what he was seeing (or hearing) or there was 35mm film in use.
>
> Are there any Abbey Road veterans from that time on the list?
>
> -- Tom Fine
>
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> Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2012 10:12 AM
> Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] EMI, opera and 35mm?
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>
>> On 24/04/2012 14:47, Tom Fine wrote:
>>> So they don't mean sprocketed magnetic film?
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ted Kendall"
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>>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>>> Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2012 9:40 AM
>>> Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] EMI, opera and 35mm?
>>>
>>>
>>>> On 24/04/2012 13:27, Tom Fine wrote:
>>>>> I came across this blurb in May 1968 High Fidelity:
>>>>> http://www.yousendit.com/download/M3Brc2ZPK3g3bUJEZU1UQw?cid=tx-02
>>>>> 002207340200000000&s=19102 (paste full link into browser if it's
>>>>> split by e-mail)
>>>>>
>>>>> The part from London, about Klemperer recording Wagner for EMI, starts at the bottom of the first page.
>>>>>
>>>>> At the top of the second page, the piece reports that "35-mm tape (is used) when separate systems were being used for voices and instruments."
>>>>>
>>>>> Are there any EMI veterans on this list who can tell me more about this technique? How long was it used? Aside from the Klemperer Wagner opera recording, what other records were made using this technique? Was it ever detailed or used as a marketing hook in EMI advertising or album-notes?
>>>>>
>>>>> Finally, do any EMI veterans have photos of the setup, showing the 35mm equipment?
>>>>>
>>>>> -- Tom Fine
>>>> I'm pretty certain this would be one inch tape on Studer J37s, of which Abbey Road had several at the time, although there was a similar Telefunken machine as well. Four tracks gave one pair for voices and one for orchestra.
>>>>
>>>
>> Not as far as I know - I have not come across any other suggestion that this was used there, and the technical climate was quite conservative at the time.
>>
>
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