Word: stereos
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Stokowski is making his debut in Phase4 Stereo, a recording technique involving, among other abracadabra, 20 mikes and a 20-channel mixer. The effects are sensuous, sonically exhilarating and unnatural. The listener feels as if he were floating almost as close to the solo violin as the bow itself, while Phase 5, the last stage of the mixing, goes on between his ears...
...white men in this picture seem like stereotypes, and Duff's father-in-law like Uncle Tom himself, it's clearly because playing a stereo-type means playing it safe in the South. But this film isn't meant to be an argument or a case history. It is particular; it asks us to be Duff Anderson for 92 minutes. Where D. W. Griffith, for instance, appealed to the fears of a group, this movie appeals to the aspirations of individuals...
...Solo. Off the screen, he is a swinging bachelor who drives around in a Lincoln Continental convertible, which he insists is not maroon in color but "black cherry." The car has a telephone and a monaural tape machine; it will soon have two telephones, a TV set, a stereo tape recorder, an icemaking midget refrigerator and a walnut-paneled bar. He is a wine lover and a gourmet...
...what may be an ultimate even in Hollywood home projection facilities, Wasserman's movie-screening room is actually a separate building-with a sliding aluminum roof and enough couch-side buttons to thrill General Sarnoff-one for controlling stereo, others for tape machines, radio, and the movie sound-track volume. As he sits in this room and judges all he has done in the past few years, he has a great deal more in mind than the simple Hollywood formula: "If it makes money, it's good...
PHILLY JOE JONES & ELVIN JONES TOGETHER (Atlantic), Two top drummers (no kin) trade solos in triumphant tattoos and combine in layered rhythms to launch some short flights by Trumpeter Blue Mitchell, Pianist Wynton Kelly and other swingers. Philly Joe rattles the right stereo, Elvin the left...