Radio age research, manufacturing, communications, broadcasting, television (1941)

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A TWtl-PIANO TEAM IN THE MAIN STUDIO AT 111 FIFTH AVENUE PROVIDES THE SOUND TRACK FOR A MUSICAL FILM. Film Recording at "411" Motion Picture Companies Make Growing Use of Modern Facilities in RCA's Fifth Arenuc Studios; Work Done There Includes Music Scoring, Recording of Newsreel Commentaries and Dialogue By H D Bradbury Manager RCA Film Recording Studio Xew York City WHEN RCA entered the film recorditiK field in 1928, offices and studios were established at 411 Fifth Avenue, New York. At that time, the studio combined photog- raphy with recordinK. niakinp full- lengrth feature pictures. Later, as the recording industry grew, motion picture production was eliminated at "-lir' and sound facilities were expanded and im- proved. Today, two decades later, this section of the RCA Engineer- ing Products Department, still at the same address, is rated one of the finest, most completely equipped film recording studios in the coun- try. The RCA Film Recording Studio, originally called RCA Photophone, Inc., has a staff of skilled techni- cians and facilities for recording commentary, dialogue, orchestral scores, and complex film track blend- ing jobs, known as mixing. In addition, it has kept its license to produce full-length motion i)ictures. Two modern studios at 411 Fifth Avenue provide adequate facilities for the increasing number of film organizations that avail themselves of this special service. These com- panies, some of them licensees, use the large Studio A principally for music scoring, for rerecording the work of large orchestras, and for mixing jobs too complex for their own facilities. The smaller Studio R is now used exclusively for voice recording. In a Control Room at the rear of Studio A. technicians operate a mixer console or control board, and disc playback. Through the use of the mixer the engineer is able to combine as many as eight separate sound tracks, maintaining the de- sired volume with the aid of an oscilloscope. [16 RADIO AGE]