{"id":587,"date":"2010-08-23T15:16:57","date_gmt":"2010-08-23T15:16:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/?p=587"},"modified":"2010-08-23T15:18:37","modified_gmt":"2010-08-23T15:18:37","slug":"stereo-sound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/2010\/08\/23\/stereo-sound\/","title":{"rendered":"Stereo Sound"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<div>And you thought &#8220;big sound&#8221; was a modern innovation.<\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/stereosoundspeakers.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-589\" style=\"border: black 2px solid;\" title=\"Bell's  Stereo Sound Speakers\" src=\"http:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/stereosoundspeakers-260x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"260\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/stereosoundspeakers-260x300.jpg 260w, https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/stereosoundspeakers-130x150.jpg 130w, https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/stereosoundspeakers.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 260px) 100vw, 260px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/div>\n<div>Pictured above are two Bell Laboratories technicians, showing off one of the sixteen horned speakers that was utilized during a series stereophonic sound demonstrations held in the late 1930&#8217;s. Initially used to showcase musical performances, the technology was adapted to motion pictures for the 1937 Universal film &#8220;One Hundred Men and A Girl&#8221; and commercially introduced with Disney&#8217;s &#8220;Fantasia&#8221; (via Fantasound)\u00a0in 1940. While stereo sound was quickly adopted by studios,\u00a0especially for big budget musicals, theatres\u00a0were somewhat\u00a0slower to pick up on the technology as a standard amenity, with many chains and locations holding out until\u00a0the mid 1970&#8217;s; the arrival of blockbuster films\u00a0finally forcing the issue.\u00a0Interestingly enough, multiplexes,\u00a0despite being billed as the &#8220;modernization&#8221; of film exhibition, were\u00a0often the last to convert.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 And you thought &#8220;big sound&#8221; was a modern innovation. . \u00a0 . Pictured above are two Bell Laboratories technicians, showing off one of the sixteen horned speakers that was utilized during a series stereophonic sound demonstrations held in the late 1930&#8217;s. Initially used to showcase musical performances, the technology was adapted to motion pictures [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-industry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=587"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":591,"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587\/revisions\/591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}