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It depends greatly on the film and how surround is used.

Posted by Audiophilander (A) on January 2, 2007 at 21:25:58

In Reply to: Modernizing film sound posted by rico on January 2, 2007 at 14:09:18:

For instance, most classic silent films are being reissued with orchestral 5.1 surround soundtracks; the bigger issues are whether a silent film should be released with music that isn't contemporaneous to the film and whether the music sounds appropriate to what is on the screen.

>>> "But I got to wondering. What if they were to "suroundize" older classics like "The Day the Earth Stood Still" or (getting to the heart of the matter) "It happened One Night" or "Casablanca" or (dare he say it?) "Citizen Kane"?" <<<

30's, 40's & 50's sound films with soundtracks are an "iffy" proposition. Music and certain rechanneled effects 'might' be okay for surround enhancement under a few unusual circumstances and dependent upon the film (it is reasonable, for instance, to speculate that SF films such as Day the Earth Stood Still, This Island Earth, War of The Worlds, Forbidden Planet, etc., 'might' benefit from a surround sountrack, especially if the original mono or stereo soundtrack recorded with the original is included as an alternative, for comparisons sake).

The bottom line: It boils down to whether the implimentation draws too much attention to itself; I'm refering to music and effects as opposed to dailogue (which shouldn't be tampered with). Note: I can even imagine rare circumstances where colorization might be deemed okay for ALTERNATIVE versions of B films, serials and action pictures, but the jury is still out on that one because few folks, if any, want to see phony color finding it's way into single-inventory re-releases of classic films.

AuPh

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