January Meeting Notice

 

Jaunary 2000 Meeting Notice












 Subject:




 Sixty Five Years of Stereo Optical












 Speaker:




 Ioan Allen, Dolby Labs












 Place:




 Dolby Labs, San Francisco, CA












 Time
      and Date:




 Jan 18th, 7:30 PM (refreshments at 7:00 PM)











 
Sixty Five Years of Stereo Optical provides an overview of stereo motion picture soundtracks which are printed directly on the film along with the picture.   Starting with Alan Blumlein in the 1930s, and moving through various stereo optical techniques including Perspecta Sound and Walt Disney's Fantasound, up to today's digital technology.  Most of the landmark stereo optical soundtrack formats are discussed and several are demonstrated with film clips.  The program has been presented internationally to film festivals, university film classes, and technical societies of the motion picture and professional audio industries. The program will be given in Dolby Laboratories' Presentation Studio which is a theatre, projection room and recording studio complex within the old brick south-of-Market warehouse building which is Dolby's headquarters.  It was built to provide a nearly-perfect listening and viewing environment for film, recorded sound, and live presentations, while being acoustically isolated from the workspaces adjacent to it.  In a discussion of theatre design criteria, you will hear and see the many differences between a normal commercial cinema and the Presentation Studio. Ioan Allen, Vice President of Dolby Laboratories will present the program. He joined Dolby Laboratories in 1969.  He is a Fellow of the SMPTE, AES and BKSTS and is active in U.S. and world standards organizations.  He received Scientific and Engineering Awards from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 1979 and 1987, and an Oscar in 1989.  He was the 1985 recipient of the Samuel L. Warner Award for contributions to motion picture sound.  Mr. Allen is also an Adjunct Professor at The University of Southern California School of Cinema-Television. Directions click here for a map From the South Bay - take 101 north to the Vermont St. exit, make an immediate left onto Vermont. Go 5 blocks and turn left on Alameda, go 3 blocks to #100 Potrero. From the Bay Bridge - take 9th street exit, turn south onto Harrison St., follow Harrison to 10th St. Turn left on 10th St. and proceed under the freeway overpass onto Potrero Ave., to #100 Potrero.