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" FerrosoniC}'*KMagnetic Recording Equipment as used at Ealing and British Instructional Studios,
Objects of Use.
Our organisation is not very large, but last year over a million feet of sound track was used at a cost of £1 1,000. With that, 150 reels of finished film were produced, including a number of children's films, which are features in every respect except their distribution. Although the ratio of film stock expenditure is usually lower than in feature production, our company hoped that magnetic recording would enable them to reduce the £11,000 by at least half. Exact costs will not be available until the end of the present financial year, but figures to date are very favourable.
An example of saving is as follows : Two reel short, with commentary and background music : saving in raw stock for commentary, £15 ; transferred to photographic film without rush print, a saving of £10 10s. — total saving of £25 10s. If music recording and dubbing had been necessitated, the saving would of course have been appreciably greater.
The sound engineer uses the magnetic recorder for the following purposes : commentaries ; music ; post-synchronising voice and effects of every kind. Only those takes passed by the director and producer are transferred to film.
Dubbing can be carried out on the magnetic recorder. Several tracks may be pre-recorded on magnetic, and a final track obtained by mixing this prerecording with the remaining tracks to be embodied. In effect, it enables a larger number of tracks to be mixed without processing delay.
Methods of Operation.
The cost of transferring is regarded in some quarters as offsetting the saving otherwise 'gained. This is far from the case. Transferring is done easily and quickly behind the scenes. A staff of three is needed to do it, but it does not take very long. In transferring, much depends on an efficient lay-out of the two channels for easy and rapid working, also a good reference system. The magnetic and photographic channels and darkroom in our company are adjacent.
It has been previously mentioned that fewer staff are allowed in documentary firms. That precludes much time being spent in making tests and maintaining equipment. Therefore the equipment used needs to be robust and not too temperamental. The first magnetic heads we used caused some trouble ; they have now been modified to internal scanning, and have since been free of trouble.
The equipment used in our company is tested once a week, but apart from slight wear on the faces of the heads, the setting up has not had to be altered