Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83 based; site hound.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!hound!rfg From: rfg@hound.UUCP (R.GRANTGES) Newsgroups: net.music.classical Subject: Re: Ruined Music - actually ruined profits Message-ID: <1311@hound.UUCP> Date: Tue, 20-Aug-85 00:11:01 EDT Article-I.D.: hound.1311 Posted: Tue Aug 20 00:11:01 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 23-Aug-85 23:44:03 EDT References: <1547@trwrba.UUCP> <1920@amdahl.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel NJ Lines: 21 [] Walt Disney's Fantasia (I saw the original and spazed out) was initially a financial flop. It seems the people who disliked classical music disliked Fantasia because of the music. Those who supposedly liked classical music were exercised about his choice of cartoon images. How DARE he...etc. Going on half a century later, most people can accept it for what it was. Irony - the Disney peolple in their desparation for money appear to have ruined the film. First by blowing up and masking the pictures to some wild new format, then by rerecording the sound out of synch. I doubt very much if they even have an original print anymore. Each frame was exquisite, suitable for framing. The sound was like 7 track stereo with surround sound. Like three of the tracks were volume control tracks giving an effect like dbx noise reduction. I have some stereo discs somewhere that still sound quite respectable. If they could put it out today like it was in 1939, they wouldn't have to apologize to anyone for technical quality. -- "It's the thought, if any, that counts!" Dick Grantges hound!rfg