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I guess I need to buy the DVD which I've never had just to get the musical interludes in stereo. It is baffling to me in this day and age how they would be released in mono when no theater which would have shown the film in stereo in '67 would have had the solely musical sequences in mono. It is...

Shouldn't kino allow us to trade it in because they blundered?

Brousseau thinks they exist even though Universal says they don't? I'm not surprised if Universal was being lazy but I'm surprised they existed in mono at all considering that they were meant for roadshow engagements which would definitely have been in stereo. Will Kino give refunds?

I see now. He wrote 'thing.'

I don't know which rendition TJPC is referring to. The original Broadway cast?

Are you talking about Eilleen Brennan's rendition?

Night Music could have used Andrews rather than Taylor but then it probably never would have gotten the funding to be made into a film.

But Charity was released roadshow in 70mm blow up with six track stereo so it could be released in 5.1. That's what I've learned from the responses. Though there seems to be some confusion as to if Millie were in certain roadshow markets released in 70mm and 6 track stereo. It is not in the NY...

The DVD says Dolby surround. Does that mean anything or is it a kind of fake surround stereo? I only have a two channel system.

Shouldn't this film be 5.1? Can a foreign release be better? I certainly found it to be the case with the Eureka The Gang's All Here over the Twilight Time. I do find it peculiar that a foreign company can come up with a better bluray of an American film. Maybe I'll wait for the French. Millie...

Really the tour over the Gower Champion original? As a boy I wrote to Champion asking about some of his staging and he wrote me a very nice letter in response. I left it in my parents' house when I moved then they moved and sadly I no longer have it. Little Miss Marker had a preview at the...

And I get senior discounts without even asking for them and I hate it! Don't they think I'm 45?

Clearly none of you were going to the movies in the late 60s or have any idea of the cultural revolution that was going on at the time. Read up on it. NOBODY regrets Channing did not make Blondes. And Channing was not going to bring in a dime on the Dolly movie. Channing like Martin and Merman...

Let's face it Channing didn't get Gentlemen Prefer Blondes either. And nobody missed her. She was not going to bring anyone into the Dolly film except for a few Broadway fanatics. Betty Grable would have been a better choice having a movie star face and musical chops but nobody but a few...

“I really wanted to use Carol Channing in the picture,” Lehman admitted. “I mean, who else would you use? But then I saw a rough cut of Thoroughly Modern Millie.” This is from the Barbara Archives a fan site where I just found it. But I remember reading it somewhere else a long time ago. Also...

Thank you for clarifying Fantasound and Joe Capps for explaining that music soundtracks were recorded in 3 track stereo but stereo prints were not released to theaters. It is interesting that Fantasia premiered at the Broadway theater in NY as did This is Cinerama. As did Steamboat Wille.

Boy am I confused. So if Fantasound was 3 track how did the sound come from the back of the theater race along the walls and then climax on screen when the waves hit? I'll have to read the article.

Ok but Scaramouche followed Singin in the Rain either immediately or shortly thereafter at the Music Hall and I found this: 'Scaramouche was one of those prestige pictures which required a notable score. ... Not only that, but the original three-track stereo was transferred to a mono tape in...

Well that's interesting because when reading about Fantasound on line it said that the multitrack recording was reduced to 4 tracks. Also Singing in the Rain was a three track(so I was told by the projectionist at Radio City when it was presented there in '75 when I mentioned the sound was so...

So Fantasound was 4 track though there were speakers throughout the theater. And Millie would have been 4 track. I was told the Times Square theaters used Wester Electric horns so they were in actuality Altec.

So unless Millie was presented in 70mm it couldn't have had 6 track stereo? Or could it have had? As discussed some Disney 1.85 films in the 60s were released in stereo. How many tracks? 4?

I think 6 track was warmer and had a more visceral impact played through those Western Electric horn speakers than contemporary sound. I don't know if they even exist anymore. They were probably destroyed when those roadshow houses were torn down.

I thought it might have roadshowed outside the US. England showed a lot of films roadshow which weren't presented as such in the US. You always see in ads 'All Seats Bookable.'

In post 73 it says Millie was in 6 track stereo.

This sounds like the original film Hill made and then Universal's fancy schmancy Ross Hunter comes in and turns the whole thing into a large brightly colored candy box and charges high prices with limited performances all tricked for the carriage trade.

Well if a film is released in 6 track stereo in theaters what should the audio in a home theater be?

This is the movie that cost Channing the role of Dolly in the film. I guess they figured 1.85 was bad enough. In 2.20:1 you would have had a tsunami.

Ah the Pantages. I saw it at Radio City where my mother took my sisters and me(I?).

Millionaire had a limited roadshow release. It was such a bomb it was then cut and had its NY opening at Radio City along with the Christmas show. I know it opened at the Philadelphia Boyd as a roadshow but I don't know where else.

Where did Mary Poppins play roadshow? It was a continuous run film.