My name is David Merrick and my name is in the alphabetical block of credits. But I did not work on the film and I am not in the film. Although I was not exactly in the shipping department of Dolby Laboratories in 1982, in addition to a supervisor, Bob, one might say I WAS THE SHIPPING DEPARTMENT in 1982 [Dolby North America]! . For the music box on the billiard table scene the director had brought a personal antique from home. I carried the music box over to the filming location from the labs, where the director, Marketing Vice President Ioan Allen remembered he had left it on his desk. The woman who sets the music box on the billiard table is Penny. The billiard table scene was filmed in an abandoned antique store show room next to The Labs [at 731 Sansome, in San Francisco.] As the technicians were aligning the Panavision camera to get the closest view that would appear straight down onto the billiard table, the camera's film magazine struck a crystal chandelier crashing it to the floor. Iaon, Welsh, and very sensitive to the nobility of status was horrified to ask me to do "the janitorial job" of sweeping up the broken glass from the floor and to in disposing of it. That's all I did. But for cleaning up a pile of shattered glass I got my name in that alphabetical block of credits! P.S. All of the people on the airplane worked at the labs. When I commented to their Technical Writer I wish I had been in the film he said: "Actually, David, you were." WHAT? On the airplane the employees of the labs were asked to talk to each other. The T.W. Joe sitting next to the MArketing VP's secretary didn't know each other. BUT THEY BOTH KNEW ME!!!! So Joe said: "In a way you WERE in the film, David. For lack of any other common subject, as we sat next to each other, DEBBIE AND I TALKED ABOUT YOU!!! The staff working on and appearing in the film were a virtual "who's who" of Lucasfilm's "Sprocket Systems" [sound department] and Dolby Labs employees.

Beautiful demonstration reel, loved hearing Wendy Carlos on the synth at the end. This film reminds me of what I miss most about going to the movies as a kid, seeing movies actually projected from film. A 35mm or 70mm print has this wonderful look to it that you just don’t get from digital. It’s the film grain, the subtle jitter of the frame from imperfections in the sprocket holes on the film, the little specks of dust that you’d occasionally see flash on the screen, it felt like the image was alive in a way. Digital is great for its simplicity but the image looks too clean, too clinical, it doesn’t have quite the same life to it in my honest opinion.

An amazing display of sound quality in one little demo reel!

Great to see this again. My favorite demo reel. Love the Wendy Carlos at the end. One of two pieces she composed for Dolby. The other WC composition (Bee Dee Bei Mir) was composed for the ending of the "Jiffy" test reel.

OMG YES WENDY FRIGGIN' CARLOS

Sweet! Another hidden treasure of a #skywalkersound project featuring Ben Burtt & Randy Thom! #soundmatters

This is fantastic. Pre-SR days too. Good old Dolby Stereo encoded 4.0 Surround aka LCRS. Channels were full bandwidth so LFE was simply LPF'd from the screen channels, paired with 2 subs for a full 4.2 array this is simply incredible. Those 35mm prints were lossless with big dynamic range, the better the Cat.150 2:4 decoder (Original Pro Logic) and fidelity of the A/D chipset the better the quality. What's fantastic about the format is it scales up the better the decoding equipment and speakers are and the better the fidelity of the original recording feeding the MP Matrix 4:2 encoder the better the surround effect. More channels doesn't automatically mean better. Dolby Stereo/Dolby Surround technology is still very much relevant on any 2 channel carrier limited platform like KZfaq. Yet you can still deliver great 4 channel surround. I never liked what Pro Logic II did to these recordings since the 6-Axis logic is more of a generic non encoded Stereo to 5.1 enhancer where as Original PL was designed specifically to faithfully decode these 35mm 4:2 SVA tracks back to the LCRS stems that fed to the 4:2 encoder for optical printing. PLII has this very awkward phase effect since it's trying so hard to create stereo surrounds that don't exist. As a result it totally messes up the screen channel stereo imaging and makes it sound like there is a hole in the center right/center left positions and you can hear how it trys steering screen channel far left and far right effects to the back simultaneously playing in the front in an effort to create stereo surrounds. It just doesn't work IMHO. Original PL isn't perfect of course but NONE of these flaws are present thus it is a far better sounding system. Late model OG PL decoders that had better and faster chips that could do much faster steering and create a very discrete like presentation. The mono surround would be played over an array around the auditorium for a nice ambient diffuse effect and on big SFX like fly overs it's quick enough to steer it to the back and keep the screen channels upfront without any noticeable shifting. Speaker calibration for measurements and delays are crucial to achieve the desired effect. The best sounding consumer OG PL decoder is probably in the Meridian 565/568 line of Pre-Pros. The quality of the chips used result in no noticable signal degradation like on cheap mass market decoders. Yamaha and Bryston included an emulated OG PL mode for years too. Accuphase also included Original PL on their VX-700 Pre-Pro as well. Amazing upload and thanks for sharing!

Dolby was hissed less stereo.it used the optical soundtrack instead of tape. It made it more compatible with mono sound optical tracks, but it was also applied to audio tape as well to reduced that hissing sound.

Digital 4K Cinema is OK, nice and sharpy etc... but 35mm Film is Organic in a Fantastic way. Quite curious to watch a Stereo 35mm recording, nice sound actually, thanks for posting. -i’d really love to shoot in 35mm but every equipment seems so expensive...-

Is this what movies sounded like in cinema's in the 1970's and 80's?

This is awesome! I was looking for something exactly like this!

Wow! This is truly a fantastic find! I've never even heard of this Listen trailer until now, and I cannot wait until KZfaq finishes processing this in HD (or 4K)!

If someone put a music box down in the middle of my Billiards game, I'd probably club them over their head with the cue.

2:40 Carl Sagan impersonator has entered the chat LMAO

The BEST EVER RENDERING

Given the year this came out, 1982, those horses in the movie may all have died since.

Amazing - thanks for finding and uploading this! The credits indicate this was made in 1982 - was it screened theatrically for paying audiences, or was it more aimed at studios/exhibitors?

Sounds great on my Dolby CP200.

My friend Clyde is in the airplane scene.

The opening tune for the "The warriors" movie is great late 1970's sound. Have a listen. You ca find it on KZfaq.

Very interesting film & a good but not great stereo sound stage image demo -across my correctly placed and phased stereo speakers.. A lot of the Dolby stereo films I have seen (& I am talking film -not video) were poorly set-up in the cinemas (that were suppose to be playing stereo programs) and you never really experienced the proper stereo./surround sound. In fact 1 large luxury cinema I challanged over it's lack of proper stereo presentation, had in fact a faulty set-up which was confirmed when they got Dolby to check out their system. Obvioulsy it had sailed past their projectionst who was slightly perturbed over all the testing commotion (pun intended) I was present at the testing session, and the cinema wrote back to me (letter to hand) thanking me for bringing it to their attention...doh...

Thanks for this rare trailer. Is it possible to obtain a 5.1 (or 4.1) version?

This was released on May 20th 1982.

@Jonathan Froes WHERE did you find this film.BEAUTIFUL 35mm remastered.

What movie theater did you saw?

dolby stereo.SR surround fantastique please

Where did you get this?

This would have been a great short film to show with many Dolby movies. Sure it is a little bizarre but it really shows how high quality Dolby Stereo (yes just good old Dolby Stereo; not Dolby SR, not Dolby Stereo Digital aka Dolby Digital; just the original Dolby soundtrack introduced in the 1970s) really was. BTW who plays the Physics teacher? He looks very familiar...

was this split surround or the 4.2 surround sound?

From 1982

When was this?

Wait, was that a young Hugh Fraser on the plane with a pornostache?

I can tell that the children were dressed in the early 1980's, and the airplane was designed differently

Can Anyone Tell me How to Take a KZfaq video & Turn it Into a 35mm Video Similar to This Video?

My R and L seem inverted.