Comments on: Magnetic Film Recording (1953) https://www.preservationsound.com/magnetic-film-recording-1953/ information and ideas about audio history Mon, 01 Apr 2013 02:19:25 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Nick Arden https://www.preservationsound.com/magnetic-film-recording-1953/#comment-140871 Mon, 01 Apr 2013 02:19:25 +0000 http://www.preservationsound.com/?p=5114#comment-140871 Mag film was superior for use when sound was synchronized to film. It could be edited on film equipment by film editors with minimal differences. It wasn’t intrinsically better than tape, but it was built for the film industry which is where the money was and so worked very well. The sel-sync era ended it for the most part.

]]> By: Bafflegab https://www.preservationsound.com/magnetic-film-recording-1953/#comment-25380 Fri, 20 Jul 2012 03:17:58 +0000 http://www.preservationsound.com/?p=5114#comment-25380 The Audio Cyclopedia has a good section with many details on this.

I recently acquired an Amega film recorder/reproducer that some nimrod had butchered for some incomprehensible purpose. There doesn’t seem to be any demand for them in pro use and there is no other market interested in them that I can find…the motors might be good for some kind of project.

It’s worth noting (as a price and labor costs comparison) the 1953 Corvette (any color you wanted as long as it was white, with a Blue Flame Six and Powerglide transmission that made it the laughingstock of sports cars) was $3,000 new and my late former old-maid spinster neighbor bought one brand new on her salary as an airline ticket agent-cash.

Those were better days for many reasons.

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