Sensurround still playing!

Some grand sound formats just won’t die quietly with (((Sensurround))) pounding you in the chest!

The in-70mm article below. Wicked, wicked JBL is on the scene now with Sensuuround makes, me won’t play Earthquake on my JBL sound system LOL!

We showed "Earthquake" a few years ago where we brought in 24 huge JBL subwoofers, each equipped with two 18" woofers.

http://www.in70mm.com/news/2010/sensurround/index.htm

http://www.in70mm.com/news/2008/sensurround/index.htm


I can still to this day feel the deep reverb of Earthquake (1974), three times at 79p.

 

Anybody seen that bunny with the pancake on his head?

 

Got any pictures?

 

You mean this bunny with the pancake on its head?




Dan

 

Exactly Dan.

 

Ok, I'm joking. I didn't read the article, but I did see Earthquake in Sensurround. There was a scroll before the feature that began with ATTENTION! and explained that the film was in Sensurround and was capable of rattling your teeth, etc.



Dan

 

Lorne Greene's finest screen performance.

 

Victoria Principal was hot!!!

 

Come back Logan5!

 

I remember Cerwin Vega speakers being a much bigger part of Sensurround than BGW amps. The speakers were F'in' enormous (and there were lots of 'em, too).

The worst part for the theaters showing Earthquake and the other Sensurround films is if you were showing, say, a quiet dramatic love story in the theater next door. Yikes!

Lotsa info on Sensurround over on Wikipedia.

 

When my wife and I went to go see a showing of "The American President" in late 1995, in the theater next door they were screening "Money Train" with Woody Harrelson and Wesley Snipes which, I guess, was an action/adventure flick. Well...about every 15 minutes you'd hear the equivalent of an earthquake next door and to this day, if we are watching something quiet, be it on TV or in the theater, and we hear a loud rumbling noise outside, we look at each other and say "Uh-oh, Money Train!".

 

It's amusing to read this on that Wikipedia page:

I have that CD and will have to give it a spin tomorrow.

 

And Ava Gardner's too! (she played his daughter!)

 

Yeah, I'd be willing to bet it wasn't the dearth of action-oriented, throbbing thumping movies that killed Sensurround...it was theater managers hearing from the patrons in the theaters next door over!




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I think there were two reasons:

1) audiences didn't care

2) notoriously-cheap theater owners didn't want to spend the money on more speakers and amps.

 

I saw Earthquake in Sensurround and it wasn't really a memorable experience. Kind of "eh..." I remember being excited to see what it was about beforehand, too. Yet, still, it didn't make any kind of impression on me. I do remember walking in and see all these big speaker cabinets and thinking: "this is going to be good...." But it wasn't anything special. I think Vidiot is right when he says audiences didn't care. Like other people here, it seemed more impressive when you were at a movie next door to a theater having a showing.

 

I've always wanted to experience Sensurround just to have done so, but would be more interested to hear other films presented with some of the same equipment, as many theaters supposedly left it intact long after the process died out.

 

I knew it was coming but it still freaked me out, mainly because as the sound was fading in I assumed that it was just another train that ran right by and next to this old theater. As things started to really shake for one split second I thought 'whoa!', but then seeing the quake/theater scene right in front of my onscreen (an obvious, old 50s horror flick cliche) and then I remembered this was the whole reason to be watching the movie, the new technology (not because it was a drama...more of a 70s soap opera) I enjoyed the thundering bass , it was new and it was all around me and the old building rattled and shook.

This IS earthquake country, you know. heh

 

I saw Earthquake in Sensurround when I was 10 at a theater in Syosset, Long Island. I thought it was pretty neat. I remember having to wait a long time on line in the freezing cold too.

 

I'm planning to make a movie about the Antarctic in SensaCold. We'll just drop the temp 100 degrees, 1 degree a minute, so the audience really feels the story.