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Tom, You should investigate the work of André Charlin. He worked on a system parallel to the tryptich sequences in Abel Gance's "Napoléon" for a 1932 or '33 reissue of the film, achieving sterephonic sound of a kind. I have asked Kevin Brownlow if any of these sound elements survived, and he didn't think so. However, Charlin also worked with early stereo systems from at least 1955 and maybe earlier. Some of his work -- operettas with René Leibowitz, a J. C. Bach "Dies Irae," some 1950s recordings of Darius Milhaud conducting that later came out on Nonesuch -- is really pretty spectacular. http://www.svalander.se/charlin/index.html Not really a record company project, but naturally there is Disney's "Fantasia" and it appears 20th Century Fox began to use stereo elements for everything starting in 1941. Some "true stereo" recordings of Glenn Miller have gotten around, though curiously not through 20th Century Fox, who only issued mono and fake stereo mixes of them. From the late 1940s there were stereo recordings circulated on open reel tape of railroad sounds. Emory Cook, I believe, made some of these train recordings, but he was not the only one and may not have been the earliest. I have been on the lookout for LP equivalents of these recordings for a long time, as I suspect some may have resurfaced in the early stereo era. But investigating stereo recordings circulated primarily on tape, I feel, is the final frontier of stereophony, and possibly a very fruitful one. And I do have something to share from that end shortly. There are stereo recordings of Thor Johnson and the Cincinnati Symphony made in 1952 for Remington, initially issued in mono on LP but on stereo tapes. Varèse Sarabande later issued some of these on stereo LPs. Also, maybe too late for your study, Pierre Monteux made some stereo recordings in Rome in 1958 of Lully that are fascinating from a stereo standpoint. I don't know what system was used, but the record I had was on RCA Victor. David Neal Lewis Lebanon, OH On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 10:43 AM, Steve Smolian <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Emory Cook. Binaural headphone demos at audio shows. Real early 50s. > > Steve Smolian > > -----Original Message----- From: Tom Fine > Sent: Friday, September 21, 2012 9:20 AM > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: [ARSCLIST] early stereophony > > > If I were to compile a group of examples of early stereophony experiments, > let's limit this to > record-company recordings and 2-channel, what's missing from this list: > > -- Blumlein EMI > -- Bell Labs/Stokowski > -- German 2-channel magnetic tape experiments on the AES CD > -- Bert Whyte Magnecorder experiments 1952-53 > -- RCA Reiner/CSO 1954 > -- Mercury late 1955 > -- Decca Ansermet > -- other mid-50's American and European stereo commercial firsts > > The main thing I want to know is, am I missing any other pre-tape > 2-channel experiments? I think > only EMI and Bell Labs experimented with 2-channel disk recording in the > 30's, to the point of > actually making recordings. > > Thanks in advance for any corrections/additions. > > -- Tom Fine >