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from the projectionist's port-hole
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WHAT IS FANTASOUND? Fantasound is the name given the special system of sound film recording and reproduction developed by RCA and Walt Disney engineers.
Its purpose is to provide even greater enjoyment for movie patrons by bringing them reproduction with startling new effects combined with new purity and realism of tone for both speech and music.
HOW DOES FANTASOUND WORK? Unlike usual movie sound, Fantasound "follows the action" on the screen. Behind the screen, offstage, overhead — all around — are a whole flock of loudspeakers connected to the special multichannel Fantasound amplifier system. The sound veers automatically from loudspeaker to loudspeaker, section to section, or is made to come from several or all of the loudspeakers as needed to create the effects and illusions Walt Disney's artistry conceived.
But this "extra dimensional" effect is not the only important benefit. The music reproduction sets a new standard for tonal realism and feeling. Both recording and reproducing innovations of the Fantasound system contribute to this achievement. The use of many loudspeakers spread all over the stage eliminates
the objectionable sharp or penetrating effects noticed when a standard high quality movie system is operated to reproduce music with realistic loudness. By recording the orchestrations by instrument sections on as many as eight separate sound tracks, Disney has been able to control and blend the reproductions through the multiple loudspeaker groups to secure music reproduction more realistic and enjoyable than ever before.
The reproducing soundheads are special film phonographs synchronized with the picture projectors. The film has three program tracks and one special multi-tone control track for loudspeaker switching and for securing added dynamic range with a total absence of film noise on quiet passages.
Except for the special film phonographs and control amplifiers, standard RCA Photophone apparatus units are used throughout the reproducing systems. Likewise, standard RCA Ultra -Violet Light Recording Systems were used to make the recordings. This is a remarkable tribute to the excellence of these units.
Better sound means better box office — RCA Tubes mean better sound.
VICTOR and BLUEBIRD RECORDS
NOVEMBER 1940