Leaky Pipeline: The fight that revolutionized cinema sound
Twenty Thousand Hertz
What Happened to Elizabeth and Elsie Concept?
Elsie Concept was awarded the patent for pairing digital audio with analog video. Steven Spielberg's lawyers worked out an agreement and DTS bought the patent from Elsie Concept. The year after the patent battle, all of the major players won Oscars for bringing digital sound to movie theaters. For that award, rather than honoring the two-person team, the Oscar went to her partner Pescall Shadowville.
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