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Believe it or not, the "Quick Fantasia Fact Sheet" from the 1990 Re-Release provided to the Daily Texan (student newspaper of the University of Texas). It was included with the full press kit, and said the original optical tracks were recorded down to a single mono track via a telephone line.
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I made the same mistake when I used that reference for an article I wrote for
Animato! many years ago. Later, when I re-read that press kit, I found that it doesn't expressly state that the phone line transfer was a single mono mixdown. The wording of the press kit (which is NOT right in front of me at the moment) could be interpreted to mean that EACH Fantasound track was so dubbed individually. The point of that sentence was to identify the source of a hum that was present in the audio of every subsequent reissue (until 1990), so if they weren't too precise about the number of phone line transfers I can forgive them.
Granted, it STILL could be interpreted as a mono mixdown, but given the above, the 1990 press kit can't be relied upon to definitively nix the potential survival of discrete Fantasound tracks in some form.