Are you guys saying that the Philips-Miller system that etched optically-read soundtracks onto 
coated film stock was used to make stereophonic recordings? History, please! Was it two machines 
locked together or did they use two inscribing heads for the same piece of film?

-- Tom Fine

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From: "Ted Kendall" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2012 11:41 AM
Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] early stereophony


> On 26/09/2012 16:06, Gray, Mike wrote:
>> Further on Columbia stereo ...
>>
>>
>> The IS Agon was recorded at Goldwyn Stage 7 in Hollywood, June 17, 1957.
>>
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>> >From 1957 - 1959, Columbia often had both two- and three-track running at orchestral sessions.
>>
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>> If we really want to be complete ref. stereo, we ought to credit the Dutch / Philips-Miller 
>> experiments recorded onto film in 1939 - 1940. To my knowledge, these recordings have never been 
>> published.
>>
>>
>> On RRG - From the summary of Heinz H.K. Thiele's presentation on RRG stereo at AES in Berlin in 
>> 1993:
>>
>>
>> 'Approximately 200 recordings, mainly of classical music, were made at the RRG. Only five of 
>> these recordings remain in existence today -- the others could not be found after World War II.'
>>
>>
>> The missing reels undoubtedly went to Moscow where they were degaussed and reused by the Russians 
>> on captured Magnetophone machines.
>>
>>
>> Mike Gray
>>
> A brief clip of some stereo street sounds from a 194something stereo Philips- Miller was included 
> in "The Hearing Aid" - a BBC programme on the history of stereophony, made in 1964. Philips may 
> still have them?
>