Word: fantasound
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that Fantasound has left Boston forever, as they tell us, the Majestic is continuing to play host to the unusual in entertainment with "Citizen Kane," the much-publicized debut of Orson Welles which has been boycotted by the Hearst papers ever since Louella Parsons noted a likeness between the careers of her boss and the protagonist. And the ex-boy genius has done it again, producing a picture the like of which has ne'er been seen before hereabouts...
...masses. Music can be brought to the people only qua music. Diluting it, making it palatable with a sideshow, only takes attention away from it, and defeats its purpose. Certainly it cannot deepen the appreciation of music. Another point: If people get used to the glittery, theatrical quality of "Fantasound," the way it is projected from various wings in order to heighten effect, their ears are liable to be spoiled for natural musical sounds. But this is pure conjecture. At the present, the worst thing about Fantasia is not that people are seeing too much of it, but that...
...back in a specially equipped studio in Hollywood, brother engineers were astounded to hear Soundman Garity's sound follow characters across the screen, roar down from the ceiling, whisper behind their backs. RCA and Disney engineers, having built his equipment at a cost of $85,000, called it "Fantasound," and crowed that it would revolutionize cinema production like nothing since the invention of Technicolor...
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