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- From: rhogan@phakt.usc.edu (Ron Hogan)
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- Subject: Re: THX1138? Film, Trailer or what?
- Date: 25 Jan 1993 03:12:53 -0800
- Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
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- Johannes Heyer <C0031018@DBSTU1.RZ.TU-BS.DE> writes:
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- >has anyone heard of something called 'THX1138' ? Is it just a THX-Trailer
- >or Demo or is it a real film ? A friend of mine asked me that. He is
- >interested in it cause he wants to test his new Surround-Sound-Super-Hyper-
- >Maximum-Fancy-Expensive-System ... :-)
-
- It is, of course, two real films, both of which were directed by
- George Lucas, whose company years later invented THX sound systems.
-
- They are late 60s early 70s films though, so I wouldn't use them to
- test a sound system. Try APOCALYPSE NOW or BLADE RUNNER...or NASHVILLE.
-
- Ron Hogan
- Cinema-Television, USC
- rhogan@usc.edu
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