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Frank Angel
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From: Brooklyn NY USA
Registered: Dec 1999
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posted 12-30-2010 04:54 PM
quote: Kenneth Wuepper that feature was lovingly referred to as the "SYA TRACK".
Damn, you learn something new every day! Thanks for that tidbit, Ken; I thought I knew all there was to know about 4trk mag being that it was a format that I loved to run and collect, but this is a new one for me. What exactly does it mean? I used to call it the "peek-a-boo track."
I worked a house in Texas that played THE SOUND OF MUSIC and THE AGONY AND ECSTASY -- different engagements. The theatre got 4trk mag prints on both occasions, but we had no stereo equipment. I had to play them using the "SYA track" and was horrified at how bad it sounded. The cell read the unevenness of the mag stripe as uneven, low frequency rumble. I was in pain every show knowing what an awful experience I was giving my audiences of those great films. I even experimented every night trying to see if I could cover part of the slit to block the mag edge, and while I was able to reduce the rumble, it also reduced the audio level; turning up the gain was equally disastrous, just adding more hiss and scratch noise.
When I finally got to my next gig where I had some control, the first thing I did was to make them install penthouses and a full system. I vowed I would never run a mag print again using the awful optical peek-a-boo track.
A question -- when aprox did the KING AND I finally get a 70mm re-release? Interestingly, the image there extends underneath the two inside mag tracks....possibly to prevent black bars on top and bottom?
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