<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>On Nov 7, 2012, at 6:52 PM, David Crosthwait wrote:</div><div><br></div><div>> Very interesting note Dennis on the Reeves modifications. That's what engineers did when there was a task: Invent!</div></div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>I add:</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Yes, Reeves had a well-equipped machine shop on the first floor at 304 East 44th Street where two German craftsmen made all kinds of special equipment and parts. Reeves' world-renowned Sound Shop audio facility in the same building was full of these special do-dads. The facility, opened in 1947 as Reeves Sound Studios, was where the audio for all Cinerama movies were mixed. When I worked at Reeves in the 1980's, the Sound Shop was where literally hundreds of movies and TV shows were mixed. Our video maintenance shop was located directly behind the largest mix room, Studio C, where most of the big stuff was done.</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Hazard Reeves was the inventor of mag-sound sprocketed film for movie post-production. Beginning in 1948, mag-film effectively made optical post-production obsolete. Reeves' double-system sprocketed magnetic film became the standard for film audio post-production, lasting until the current era of digital sound mixing.</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><<a href="http://www.in70mm.com/cinerama/archive/sound/index.htm">http://www.in70mm.com/cinerama/archive/sound/index.htm</a>></div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><<a href="http://www.cineramaadventure.com/reeves.htm">http://www.cineramaadventure.com/reeves.htm</a>><div><br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Dennis Degan, Video Editor-Consultant-Knowledge Bank</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span> NBC Today Show, New York</div><br></div></div></span></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> </div><br></div></body></html>