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15-567: Reeves was originally "Hudson American…just a little bit before the end of D-Day " and in 1946 Reeves Sound Laboratory , a division of Reeves-Ely Laboratories (R.E.L.), was researching "advance gunfire control systems and computers; radar and tracking systems; guided missile controls; aircraft control instruments… (Research initiated 1942.)" RICO was awarded the Department of the Navy contract No. N60ori-128 on June 10, 1946, for "development of

30-597: A camera that could take a 360-degree still photo. As the special projects director for the 1939 New York World's Fair , he collaborated on the fair centerpiece attraction called the Perisphere , the Eastman Kodak Hall of Color, and he developed the Time and Space Building to showcase his creation, Vitarama an 11-projector system projecting onto a half-dome sphere and precursor to Cinerama. During World War II,

45-635: A degree in engineering. Reeves moved to New York, where his first job was for the Columbia Phonograph Company . After being appointed as a special consultant to the Harvard University Film Foundation, his interests shifted from phonograph recordings to motion picture audio. By 1933, Reeves had set up his own sound recording studio in New York. The studio soon became the largest on the east coast of

60-485: A guided missile simulator and the operation of a simulation laboratory [for] research and development on guided missile simulation" and "development and construction of a rapid and precise automatic analog computer suitable for detailed simulation of guided missiles". The contract's Task Order III on June 12, 1947, required Reeves provide "a simulation laboratory, the Project Cyclone Laboratory, which

75-505: A heart attack in Tuxedo Park, New York . One year after he died, Unitel Video bought the assets of his firm. Reeves was married to Adeline Johnstone Fowles. Their granddaughter is actress Perrey Reeves . Fred Waller Frederic Waller (1886 – May 18, 1954) was an American inventor and film pioneer. Waller is most known for his contributions to film special effects while working at Paramount Pictures , for his creation of

90-578: A wholly owned subsidiary of … Claude Neon , Inc." on April 15, 1955, when the former merged into Dynamics Corporation of America ; and on January 20, 1956, the other Reeves division of Neon—Reeves-Ely Laboratories, Inc.--also merged into Dynamics. In 1958, RICO moved production to its Roosevelt Field plant on East Gate Blvd in Garden City, New York . In the early 1960s, the Reeves AN/MSQ-35 Bomb Scoring Central

105-570: Is Cinerama . Reeves' sound system was the first, discrete stereophonic sound system used in post-war commercial application. (Walt Disney had originally released Fantasia (1940) in three-track optical sound, but the Disney "Fantasound" system was not used for any other film afterwards.) Reeves Soundcraft Corporation won an Academy Award in 1953 for their development of a process of applying stripes of magnetic oxide to motion picture film for sound recording and reproduction. Reeves died at age 80 of

120-607: The Cold War , Reeves developed and tested the AN/USQ-24 ;[ sic ] [AN/MSQ-2A] Bomb Scoring Central, a variant of the MSQ-2 Close Support Control Set developed by Rome Air Development Center . Bomb Scoring Centrals by RICO were used for Radar Bomb Scoring (RBS), as well as Korean War ground-directed bombing (GDB) controlled by TADPOLE sites. "Reeves Instrument Corporation [was]

135-452: The US. In 1939, Reeves met Fred Waller during the construction of the 1939 New York World's Fair on an exhibit for Eastman Kodak . Waller showed Reeves his idea for a multiple-camera photography system that would fill the peripheral vision , initially dubbed "Vitarama". Waller asked Reeves if he could invent a multi-channel system of sound. Reeves agreed, and ultimately invested money into

150-691: The Waller Flexible Gunnery Trainer, and for inventing Cinerama , the immersive experience of a curved film screen that extends to the viewer's peripheral vision, for which he received an Academy Award . Waller, a snow-skiing and boating enthusiast, is also credited with obtaining the first patent for a water ski in 1925. He produced and directed 200 one-reel shorts for Paramount, including Cab Calloway's Hi-De-Ho (1934) and Duke Ellington's Symphony in Black (1935). He patented several pieces of photographic equipment, including

165-664: The company. During World War II , Reeves ran the Reeves-Ely Laboratories, Inc. (R.E.L.), manufacturing electronic products for the war effort. His company won the Army-Navy "E" Award for merit four times, fulfilling contracts totaling millions of dollars. Originally also known as Reeves Sound Laboratory , following the war, in 1946, Reeves founded the Reeves Soundcraft Corporation (later known as Reeves Sound Services ) and directed

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180-472: The operation of a number of companies manufacturing a variety of products including recording tape and film, record discs, wire cable, television tubes and cameras and precision recording equipment. Reeves introduced magnetic recording to the film industry in 1948. Utilizing separate magnetic film , Reeves created a seven-channel sound system for Cinerama, the company of which he was president by 1952. That same year, Cinerama released its first picture, This

195-538: Was being used for GDB. Reeves Sound Laboratory Hazard Earle Reeves, Jr. (July 6, 1906 – December 23, 1986) was an American pioneer in sound and sound electronics, and introduced magnetic stereophonic sound to motion pictures. He was also the president of over 60 companies, including Cinerama Inc. Reeves was born in Baltimore , Maryland , the son of Susan (Perreyclear) and Hazard Earle Reeves. He graduated from Georgia School of Technology in 1928 with

210-697: Was produced for Strategic Air Command RBS and in 1965, the Reeves AN/MSQ-77 Bomb Directing Central was built for Vietnam War GDB. Reeves also produced a 1967 transportable variant of the vacuum tube AN/MSQ-77, and one of the AN/TSQ-81 variants was destroyed after the Battle of Lima Site 85 in Laos. By the end of the war the vacuum-tube Reeves AN/TSQ-96 Bomb Directing Central with a solid state Univac 1219 B ballistic computer

225-562: Was to be operated by the Reeves Analysis and Computer Group." Reeves built the lab's original Reeves Electronic Analog Computers in 1947, and a new computing lab of REACs was contracted under Task Order III in 1949. "The guided missile simulator of Task Order II was completed in early 1949 [with a] satisfactory demonstration in February 1949 of the guided missile simulator solving a three-dimensional guided missile problem". Early in

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