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Where can I find audio of that program? Any BBC people on-list here? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ted Kendall" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2012 12:28 PM Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] early stereophony > On 26/09/2012 16:51, Tom Fine wrote: >> 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 >> >> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ted Kendall" >> <[log in to unmask]> >> To: <[log in to unmask]> >> 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. >>>> >>>> >>>> >From 1957 - 1959, Columbia often had both two- and three-track >>>> running at orchestral sessions. >>>> >>>> >>>> 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? >>> >> > Two heads, one film, from what I can gather - the BBC mono machines were > adjusted cut a second track onto used film during wartime shortages, so > the medium had space enough for two tracks. I think the narration of the > programme confirms this. >