In repsonse to our recent coverage of 3D movies, one TG Daily reader wrote in about seeing a movie in SenSurround way back when.
SenSurround, in some ways, may have been the precursor to THX – right as theater sound technology was going through radical changes. Remember, we didn’t even have Dolby Stereo in theaters until the late ’70′s, but all that changed thanks to Star Wars.
SenSurround was the innovation of the late Jennings Lang, a Hollywood producer who knew the power of showmanship.
He was the first to call a film an “event” back in 1974 for Earthquake, which like many disaster films of the day featured an all star cast including Charlton Heston, Walter Matthau, Ava Gardner, George Kennedy, and more.
“My dad was one of the last true showmen,” says his son, Rocky Lang. “He rea
Leica has introduced a new digital camera which could be described as the twin of the Leica M9 that was introduced sometime back. The Leica M9-P comes equipped with an 18-megapixel CCD image sensor, it comes with a 2.5-inch LCD display which is used to preview captured images, the LCD display comes with an anti-reflective coating and it is also scratch resistant. The Leica M9-P comes with a vulcanite leatherette body finish which allows a much better grip plus it also comes in the classical Leica silver chrome finish or in black.