[BC] Old Cannon Mic Connector

[Mark Durenberger]

You know...I was right, Peter.  You really DO know everything!

:-))

Mark Durenberger


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Sent: Saturday, November 05, 2005 10:36 AM
Subject: Re: Re: [BC] Old Cannon Mic Connector


>
>>The Hubbell Twist-Lock was the WE standard for pre-war and late 1940's
>>equipment.
>>Hardly surprising that you would find it around the film industry
>>considering WE's
>>share of that business in those days. I remember all the war movies I saw
>>as a
>>kid with the "Western Electric Sound" logo in the center of the bottom of 
>>the
>>credits (Mostly in black and white. <g> )
>
> RCA licensees ("RCA Sound System"/"RCA Sound Recording"/"RCA Photophone",
> et. al.) included ...
>
> Walt Disney (alive and well)
>
> Warners (alive and well)
>
> Republic (bankrupt/abandoned)
>
> RKO (closed/abandoned ... was formerly partly RCA owned, which is why
> they call it "A Radio Picture" on the logo)
>
> Screen Gems (TV arm of Columbia, now merged with Columbia as Sony)
>
> Twentieth Century-Fox Television (TV arm of Fox, now merged with Fox)
>
> Revue Productions (TV arm of Universal, now merged with Universal)
>
>
> Western Electric licensees ("Western Electric Sound System"/"Western
> Electric Recording System"/"Western Electric Recording", "Westrex",
> "Litton Westrex", et. al.) included ...
>
> Twentieth Century-Fox (alive and well)
>
> MGM (now merged with United Artists, which did not have its own
> production facilities)
>
> Paramount (alive and well)
>
> Columbia (theatrical, now Sony)
>
> Ryder Sound Services (probably merged with someone)
>
> Technicolor Corporation (alive and well)
>
> Universal (alive and well)
>
>
> AT&T abandoned the Western Electric trademark. It had previously sold its
> Westrex Corporation subsidiary to Litton, and the Western Electric logo
> was changed first to Westrex and later to Litton Westrex.
>
> After Litton closed Westrex, it sold the Westrex name to an investor
> group which makes former Western Electric vacuum tubes.
>
>
> But ...
>
> All Dolby Stereo sound tracks are shot on a Western Electric RA-1231
> stereo variable area sound recorder, which Litton Westrex commissioned
> Nuoptix to resurrect from a combination of Western Electric's circa 1938
> stereo variable-area light valve and Western Electric's circa 1947
> optical sound recorder, after the success of "Star Wars" and its
> RCA-based prototype stereo sound recorder, which prototype proved to be
> technically infeasible on account of difficulty of manufacture (only
> three were made).
>
> There now exist at least one-hundred RA-1231s, and even Walt Disney has a
> pair of these, as does Warners.
>
> The RA-1231 is even in "new production" today, almost SIXTY years after
> it was first released to its (Western Electric's) licensees.
>
> An RA-1231-shot analog stereo sound track is the backup track for every
> digital sound system save DTS, but the DTS "time code" itself is optical,
> and it is indeed shot on an RA-1231.
>
>
> Oh, since the Westrex name was sold by Litton, Nuoptix cannot use that
> name for its (and Western Electric/Westrex's former) RA-1231 product.
>
> So, it took the Photophone trademark instead, which RCA had abandoned
> after its takeover by General Electric.
>
>
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