Fantasound

Fantasound was an early stereophonic sound process developed by sound engineer William E. Garity and sound mixer John N.A. Hawkins for the Walt Disney studio in 1938- 1940 for the motion picture Fantasia, making Fantasia the first commercial film with multichannel sound. It led to the development of what is today known as surround sound. The idea for Fantasound came from Walt Disney himself, who was displeased with the quality of conventional optical motion picture sound recording and playback systems, and from conductor Leopold Stokowski, who had participated in experimental stereophonic recordings in 1932 and a live, long-distance demonstration of multichannel sound in 1933. Stokowski had already recorded onto a nine-track sound system at the Academy of Music in Philadelphia during the making of the movie One Hundred Men and a Girl for Universal Pictures in 1937, although that film had been released only in conventional mono, and no stereo version of it is known to exist.

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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Fantasound was an early stereophonic sound process developed by sound engineer William E. Garity and sound mixer John N.A. Hawkins for the Walt Disney studio in 1938- 1940 for the motion picture Fantasia, making Fantasia the first commercial film with multichannel sound. It led to the development of what is today known as surround sound. The idea for Fantasound came from Walt Disney himself, who was displeased with the quality of conventional optical motion picture sound recording and playback systems, and from conductor Leopold Stokowski, who had participated in experimental stereophonic recordings in 1932 and a live, long-distance demonstration of multichannel sound in 1933. Stokowski had already recorded onto a nine-track sound system at the Academy of Music in Philadelphia during the making of the movie One Hundred Men and a Girl for Universal Pictures in 1937, although that film had been released only in conventional mono, and no stereo version of it is known to exist.