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Stereo or Stereo Enhanced?

I'm a little confused about the release of this film score by Screen Archives.
This is a film from 1949, yet the release of the score appears to be in stereo.
When I questioned Screen Archives about this, they indicate they did not do a 'Stereo Enhancement' of the music.
I thought that 'The Robe' (1954) was the first film to use a true stereo recording for the film score.
HELP!

elbawild, December 29, 2006; 1:16 PM

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Years ago I picked up some unusual recordings which were designed to be played on a special two needle turntable. I've never seen one of these turntables although on the back jacket of the recordings are images of it. The tone arm looks like a two headed snake and played two tracks of the old LP at the same time. Right channel/Left channel combined resulted in steroephonic sound.

I'm sure it has nothing to do with your question. Just felt it to be an interesting example of early stereo technology.

victoravalentine, December 29, 2006; 5:21 PM


The way I understand it, is that some old recordings were done with 2 or more microphones from different angles but instead of those 2+ microphone inputs being combined into a mono recording, they were recorded on separate tracks and those 2 or more tracks could be used to create "stereo". Even though stereo wasn't even known back then, apparently some people had smarts when they recorded these. I believe even "The Wizard of Oz" (1939) can be presented in "stereo" because of the way it was recorded using multiple microphones from different angles.

piano632, December 29, 2006; 5:36 PM

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