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Sound 360 was the name of a motion picture sound system used by 20th Century-Fox to enhance the premiere engagements of their 1977 feature Damnation Alley. [ 1 ] The format employed the standard 35mm magnetic stereo soundtracks (left, center , right and surround ) in a unique configuration.
The result was, first, the advent of Movietone Sound, then soon combined with the 70 mm "Grandeur" wide screen camera, with the Grandeur film process becoming the first theatrically successful wide screen film process when Fox Film Studio's released their epic made-for-Grandeur film, The Big Trail, in October 1930.
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The first feature film released using the Fox Movietone system was Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927), directed by F. W. Murnau. This film was the first professionally produced feature film with an optical soundtrack. The sound in the film included music and sound effects but only a few unsynchronized spoken words.
Sound Ideas is a Canadian audio company and the archive of one of the largest commercially available sound effects libraries in the world. [2] [3] It has accumulated the sound effects, which it releases in collections by download or on CD and hard drive, through acquisition, exclusive arrangement with movie studios, [4] and in-house production.
The success of Sensurround as an effect led rival studios to develop their own audio enhancements. 20th Century Fox released Damnation Alley (1977) in Sound 360 (and mixed Alien in Sensurround following Sound 360's failure), and Warner Brothers employed their Megasound process for Altered States (1980), Outland (1981), Wolfen (1981) and ...
Synchronized music score and sound effects. Silent version also released. 14 October: Me, Gangster # Synchronized music score and sound effects. 21 October: Mother Machree # reels 3,4, & 6 are missing; Synchronized music score and sound effects 28 October: The Farmer's Daughter: Mother Knows Best # Part-talkie. 11 November: Romance of the ...
Carmen Miranda as Dorita in The Gang's All Here.In 1946, she was the highest-paid actress in the United States. [15] Alice Faye as Baroness Cecilia Duarte, Don Ameche as Larry Martin and Baron Manuel Duarte, and Carmen Miranda as Carmen in That Night in Rio, produced by Fox in 1941 The 20th Century-Fox logo depicted in a 1939 advertisement in Boxoffice From the 1952 film Viva Zapata!