[CW] Tapping Out SOS

[Richard Knoppow]

    Supposedly the reason M-G-M pushed to get a standardized 
theater loudspeaker system was that the older systems would not 
reproduce Eleanore Powell's taps properly. I can believe it 
because there were a variety of systems, all different and often 
with bad time delay effects. I think there were other reasons for 
the development but M-G-M liked to have some romance attached. 
The standard system as developed was named after Douglas Shearer, 
the head of the M-G-M sound department and mainly developed by 
Jim Lansing.  I had a pair of the RCA version but had to sell it. 
The system was probably inspired by a very large dual horn built 
by Bell Labs for its stereo experiments in the early 1930s. A 
couple of these reportedly still exist. They are sometimes called 
Fletcher Horns after Harvey Fletcher, the head researcher in 
acoustics at the Labs.
    The Shearer system was cheaper to build and until the late 
1940s was what you heard in most theaters. I miss mine and wish I 
had not had to sell them despite being very deaf these days.

On 2/21/2021 6:50 PM, Michael via CW wrote:
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>> On Feb 21, 2021, at 6:45 PM, D.J.J. Ring, Jr. <n1ea at arrl.net> 
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>> Wadda you mean, she used both feet.
>> 73
>> DR
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>>     From: D.J.J. Ring, Jr. <n1ea at arrl.net <mailto:n1ea at arrl.net>>
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>>     Sent: Fri, Feb 19, 2021 10:20 pm
>>     Subject: [CW] Tapping Out SOS
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>>     The amazing Eleanor Powell taps out an actual morse code
>>     in the movie Ship Ahoy (1942) while dancing to the music
>>     of Tommy Dorsey's orchestra.
>>     https://youtu.be/jHHj09tVi9Q?t=66
>>     <https://youtu.be/jHHj09tVi9Q?t=66>
>>     73
>>     DR
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