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The Spatial Race

Twenty Thousand Hertz

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The Importance of Surround Sound in Movie Theaters

One of the first directors to use surround sound was Francis Ford Coppola with Apocalypse Now. He wanted his epic war story to have an equally epic soundtrack. When he started the project in 1974, movie theaters didn't have surround sound yet. Here's the film's sound designer Walter March in a 2006 documentary.

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