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Topic: How bout some 'retro-style' Dolby Digital trailers?
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William Hooper
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From: Mobile, AL USA
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posted 12-12-2000 12:09 AM
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A really cool Dolby Digital trailer could be something late 60's/early 70's style with Moog synthesizer music
Isn't there an old Dolby test film with moog music by Walter (later Wendy) Carlos, & some piano stuff? Maybe this is a spurious memory, but I sure think I remember one, & it being generally blue in color with credits at the end.
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Aaron Sisemore
Flaming Ribs beat Reeses Peanut Butter Cups any day!
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From: Rockwall TX USA
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posted 12-13-2000 12:20 AM
>>Isn't there an old Dolby test film with moog music by Walter (later Wendy) Carlos, & some piano stuff? Maybe this is a spurious memory, but I sure think I remember one, & it being generally blue in color with credits at the end.<<Thats the Cat 251(?) Dolby "Jiffy" test film, and the synth stuff is very near the end with the picture alignment tests where Carlos plays some synth tune ending with a cool variation on the Looney Tunes "Thats All Folks" theme... The only 'piano' in that film is a single bass note that is struck and held as an analog wow and flutter test. Its about 7 minutes long, and contains a lot of 'technospeak'-not exactly the kind of thing to show for a 'logo' before a feature!
The DTS 'Buzz And Bill Show', on the other hand, is a much better thing that you could actually integrate into a feature program... (at least a PG13 or R rated one as the 'Born on the 4th of July' segment contains several utterances of "F**k")... The SDDS test film save for the 'Hook' music selection makes Jiffy look like Star Wars in comparison, The SDDS film even makes ME sleepy!  Aaron
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John Pytlak
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From: Rochester, NY 14650-1922
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posted 12-13-2000 10:49 AM
I had the pleasure of meeting Wendy Carlos at an SMPTE Technical Conference in New York City about eight years ago. A very technically astute artist, who is very interested in applying the latest in audio technology to her music. She did the soundtrack music for "A Clockwork Orange", "The Shining", "Tron", the Dolby "Jiffy Test" film, and other productions:
http://www.wendycarlos.com/ ------------------
John P. Pytlak, Senior Technical Specialist
Worldwide Technical Services, Entertainment Imaging
Eastman Kodak Company
Research Labs, Building 69, Room 7419
Rochester, New York, 14650-1922 USA
Tel: 716-477-5325 Fax: 716-722-7243
E-Mail: john.pytlak@kodak.com
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Florian Pausch
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From: Wien, Austria
Registered: Dec 2000
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posted 12-22-2000 03:39 PM
Dolby produced a really fine demonstration film in 1976, called "Listen...", duration ca. 8 min. After some demonstrations of the stage channels, starting a saturn rocket, hearing a string quartet and so on, Wendy Carlos plays "The Ride Of The Walkuries" on her synthesizer, accompanied by pictures of a woman riding through the landscape. At the end of the film there are some fine "technical" features, the displays of an oscilloscope, an RTA, vectorscope etc. mounted parallel on the big screen (of course in CinemaScope).
The film is in Dolby A (remember the year), but still a big eye- (and ear-)catcher for an interested auditorium. I own one print and use it regularly before special shows.
I was just wondering, that no one seems to know this little feature.best wishes from Vienna,
Flo
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