BRITISH FILM STUDIO'S POST PRODUCTION UNIT CHOOSES
BAG END 'ELF' EXTENDED LOW FREQUENCY SYSTEM

One of the oldest and most prestigious motion pictures studios in the British Isles has installed a BAG END ELF (extended low frequency) subwoofer system in its postproduction facilities.

And Twickenham Film Studios is so pleased with BAG END's initial performance that the studio has already ordered another BAG END system to convert the second of its two post facilities, and use BAG END exclusively for its post work.

"Like everyone else, we are astounded by the detail you can have in a bass speaker," said Twickenham rerecording/mix engineer Dean Humphreys. "They have so much warmth, yet they're punchy and tight."

One of the first projects Twickenham did on their new BAG END system was the Brad Pitt film "Seven Years in Tibet," on Sony's SDDS format. Twickenham also completed the feature "Event Horizon" on that system, on Dolby's SRD six-track format.

After completing only two projects on the BAG END system, Humphreys was sold, and placed the order for the second BE system.

"The BAG END system retains its integrity irrespective of level" he said. "It's very detailed at low levels, which is fantastic, and at high levels it doesn't overpower you, but retains it's shape."

"People might say, 'Isn't bass just - well bass?'" he said. "After hearing the BAG END subwoofers, obviously not. They're bloody marvelous."

Twickenham Film Studios, in existence since 1913, hit it big in 1964 with the Beatles' landmark epic "A Hard Day's Night." Some other hit films on Twickenham's list of credits include "A Fish Called Wanda," "Blade Runner," "American Werewolf in London," "Gandhi," "Alfie" and hundreds of television productions for the BBC.

Twickenham Film Studios was founded in 1913 in that Middlesex community just 15 minutes south of London. With the outbreak of WWI in 1914, the British film industry as a whole went into decline, but Twickenham emerged as its present company in 1929, taking over the old St. Margaret's studios, under the leadership of Julius Hagen, Leslie Hiscott and Henry Edwards.

The British film industry was forced into decline again during WWII when studios and sound stages were taken over by the government for use as warehouses. Twickenham reemerged in 1949, owned by Kenneth and Gerald Shipman and managed by Guido Coen. It's first major hit was a new-age film showing realistic, working class people, titled "Saturday Night and Sunday Morning."

Among other production and post-production facilities that have recently installed BAG END systems are Warner Brothers, Paramount Pictures, Todd-AO/Glen Glenn Sound, Todd-AO Studios West (formerly Skywalker Sound South) and Soundfirm of Australia.

Described as the first breakthrough in low frequency sound reproduction in the past 40 years, the BAG END ELF system is produced by BAG END for professional sound application under license agreement with Long/Wickersham Labs of Santa Rosa, CA.

BAG END Loudspeaker Systems of Barrington, IL. has been manufacturing professional quality loudspeaker systems and components for more than two decades, and has built an enviable reputation among professional musicians and sound reinforcement installation companies.