Vintage Film making, SOUND production, recording, editing, 1950's technology for movies, Aaron Stell

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Computer History Archives Project ("CHAP")

Жыл бұрын

Vintage Tech Film 1950: “The SOUNDMAN” skillfully combines presentation of mechanical details with a history of sound and clips from earlier films. It demonstrates mechanical techniques, electronic equipment, film capture and examples of behind the scenes filming. Great vintage film creation technology, good narration. Categories include early film making, sound recording on film, film editing, movie making, film and sound synchronization, film history, vintage cinema and vintage filming techniques. Seen in the film are recording devices, microphones, film reels, film cameras, audio recording on film, and projectors. Run time 10 minutes.
The film “The Soundman” is Directed by Aaron Stell, who was an editor and director with a record of work on over 100 films and television works. Aaron Stell is also known for his editing work on ”To Kill a Mockingbird” (1962), “Touch of Evil” (1958), directing and producing “The Gallant One (1964), editing of “Native Son” (1986) and editing work on “Silent Running” (1972). He died on January 7, 1996 in Los Angeles.
Writers for “The Soundman” included Grant Leenhouts and Jack Roberts.
Many thanks to Speakeasy Archives.com for digital scanning and restoration of “The Soundman,” film.
www.speakeasyarchives.com
Uploaded by Computer History Archives Project (CHAP) as part of our vintage technology series.

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@TheUglyGnome Жыл бұрын

You just have to admire the sound engineers of that time, No multitrack recorders; no automated mixing consoles ... or digital audio workstations. These guys really were professionals.

@jourwalis-8875 9 күн бұрын

Very interesting. But imagine, they recorded every sound on film!

@HawkinaBox 3 ай бұрын

Wow, the time and effort that went into making movies is INSANE. Nowadays, you just have a program to do everything for you.

@JurassicJenkins Жыл бұрын

I never knew how complex it was to make a movie back in the day. Fascinating, I’ll never curse today’s technology again, no matter how inefficient is seems to me. Clearly I’m the deficient one here. 🎈

@captainkeyboard1007 2 ай бұрын

Condemn not yourself. We all live and learn. These things are learning processes as the whole world is a stage.

@heavenplus1 Жыл бұрын

Very informative and interesting documentary. Thanks for the upload.

@6vibe150 Жыл бұрын

Awesome

@ComputerHistoryArchivesProject Жыл бұрын

Glad you liked it. It was a rare find...

@frankowalker4662 Жыл бұрын

Brilliant. I love the old mixing desks.

@busted_keys Жыл бұрын

Me too. Early portable consoles like this often had mic pres, a mixer and a limiting amplifier all built into one. Looks like portable one he's using has a built in speaker for monitoring as well. The big console in the re recording room was by RCA, I don't think the little one is though unless it was a custom job by them. Whatever it is I bet it weighs a good 50 pounds!

@frankowalker4662 Жыл бұрын

@@busted_keys Yeah, they say 'portable', but sometimes it took two people to carry them. :)

@karmakaruna Жыл бұрын

@@frankowalker4662 back then "portable" literally meant not bolted to the floor lmao

@frankowalker4662 Жыл бұрын

@@karmakaruna And it had to have at least one handle. LOL.

@jourwalis-8875 9 күн бұрын

It could have been most informative if they also had mentioned the years when the different steps were taken, for instance when the first full length talkie was recorded, and so forth.

@renakunisaki Жыл бұрын

Hiding a microphone in the telephone... Genius!

@EarthtoneEmar 9 ай бұрын

Amazing

@captainkeyboard1007 2 ай бұрын

Computer History Archives Project gets the job done!🌟

@ComputerHistoryArchivesProject 2 ай бұрын

Thanks very much!

@captainkeyboard1007 2 ай бұрын

@@ComputerHistoryArchivesProject You are welcome. I hope your shows will carry the torch in this life. I have been an audiophile in1978. Thank you for typing to me.

@captainkeyboard1007 2 ай бұрын

@@ComputerHistoryArchivesProject You are welcome and thank you for typing to me.⭐

@dalecomer5951 Жыл бұрын

Fairly sophisticated considering that "talkies" had only been in production for 20+ years at the time the film was made.

@retrogamestudios7649 Жыл бұрын

I love how today u can go on wish and buy a 16 channel mixer for 9.99 and it beats the technology of what to get soundman went thru......wow just wow......now I know it why those Oscar categories exist

@pauldorobialski8871 Жыл бұрын

I have this film in the 16mm format.

@ArulPalanisamy 9 ай бұрын

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@JGabrielDiz 5 ай бұрын

What movie is this last scene from?

@IwBpetthe Жыл бұрын

is just me does it sound like William Shatner?

@ComputerHistoryArchivesProject Жыл бұрын

Hi IwBpetthe, well, William Shatner would have been 19 years old in 1950, so... it is possible.

@D0S81 Жыл бұрын

but how does it work? i came here cuz i just watch an adam savage vid on fleischer restorations, and it showed these lines on the side for the sound, and my first thought was that if they could record sound like that, then why was the tech never bought to the consumer market until the 60's with 8track? they literally had a way to put audio on a form of tape, ie film, that could be played on any movie projector or even a device made just for listening to audio. im also really curious how the projector actually reads and converts those lines into sound. its really interesting. i just imagine a parralel world where people had tape players in their homes back in the 20's after seeing this.

@ComputerHistoryArchivesProject Жыл бұрын

D0S81, excellent question. It certainly is a fascinating look at early technology. My thoughts on why this was not used more widely years back is perhaps the equipment and media involved were expensive in themselves, when it came to potentially releasing the tech commercially. Just a thought. Interesting that many different people were looking at various technical solutions and some solutions just did not pan out until years later. Thanks again for your question and feedback! ~ VK

@martinhughes2549 11 ай бұрын

Optical sound tracks are converted to sound by a light projected through the optical track onto a photoelectric cell, then that's connected to an amplifier and then to a speaker. Optical sound is quite poor compared to magnetic sound. To achieve adequate noise to sound ratios on often poor cinema setups, they used something called academy curve, which cut out high frequency sounds. In the early 1950s audio began to be recorded in primary cinema recording onto film with magnetic coatings. Then transferred after mixing to a mono optical soundtrack. Some cinemascope films had 4 track magnetic audio strips, 70mm films only had magnetic soundstrips. In 1975 Dolby developed backcompatible 4 track optical stereo tracks with high quality noise reduction, which meant academy curve for optical soundtracks could be abandoned.

@MrCarGuy Жыл бұрын

You say in the description that you omitted content to "comply with YT's content guidelines", but that other videos of Jolson are uploaded. Yeah, there are dozens of uploads of him. KZfaq doesn't remove historical content like that. Censoring historical content is a massive slippery slope...

@ComputerHistoryArchivesProject Жыл бұрын

It sometimes appears that new uploads are scanned differently by the "YT algorithm" than older existing videos. YT can "tighten up" what the algorithm flags, and content up loaders can get flagged for something already loaded in the past. Sounds odd, but it happens.

@BlaBla-pf8mf Жыл бұрын

KZfaq is going down so fast on the slope that they look like skiers. And lots of historical content already gets removed or demonetized.

@Shermanbay Жыл бұрын

@@ComputerHistoryArchivesProject I can attest to this. Also, times change, and the YT algorithm changes, too. I uploaded a 1969 movie with the word "bitch" that YT censored around 2010. A few years later, I was able to upload the same clip without censorship, but the originally censored clip was not restored.

@ComputerHistoryArchivesProject Жыл бұрын

Hi Shermanbay, Undertsood. I have heard other YT creators say the same thing. The algorithm does act as if it is periodically and perhaps frequently "tweaked" to achieve different levels of control. I have no inside info on any of this, so it is just an observation. Thank you very much for your feedback on this! ~