From One to Many: A Short History of 20th Century Multichannel Cinema Sound

Tom Scott

This paper traces many of the steps in the development of multi-channel cinema sound from the single channel mono optical cinema sound of the 1930’s to the dawn of the Digital Cinema of the 21st century.

Print ISSN
Electronic ISSN
2160-2492
Published
2016-08
Content type
Original Research
Keywords
CDS, Cinema Digital Sound, CinemaScope, Cinema sound, Cinerama, DC-28, Dolby Stereo, Dolby Digital, DTS, Fantasia, Fantasound, IMAX, Quintaphonic, Sony SDDS, SVA, Todd-AO, 70mm magnetic, 5.1, 7.1
DOI
10.5594/JMI.2016.2579959