24 Apr
2013
24 Apr
'13
9:33 a.m.
Super-8 8mm film could have a magnetic soundtrack
(I have never heard of
opticla sound on such films). I have also never heard of any soundtrack
on standard 8 ('double run 8(') or single-8 film.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_8_film#Sound has the following:
"Super 8mm was also specified with an optical sound track. This occupied
the same location as the magnetic track. Picture to sound separation in
this format was just 16 frames. Projectors and cameras obviously could
not record sound in this system, but optical sound package movies became
briefly popular, particularly in Europe (mainly because they were cheaper
to produce - though the projectors cost more). Although the optical sound
should have been inferior in quality to magnetic sound (running at 3.6
inches per second for 24 frames per second), in practice it was often much
better, largely because packaged movie magnetic sound was often poorly
recorded."
No mention of audio tracks in any form in the Regular-8 article however.
Arno