Editing Stereophonic sound (section)

===Back to mono===
Beginning in 1957, films recorded in stereo (except for those shown in Cinerama or Todd-AO) carried an alternate mono track for theatres not ready or willing to re-equip for stereo.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.widescreenmuseum.com/widescreen/wingcs5.htm |title=The CinemaScope Wing 5 |publisher=Widescreen Museum |access-date=October 17, 2011}}</ref> From then until about 1975, when [[Dolby Stereo]] was used for the first time in films, most motion pictures{{snd}} even some from which stereophonic soundtrack albums were made, such as [[Zeffirelli]]'s ''[[Romeo and Juliet (1968 film)|Romeo and Juliet]]''{{snd}} were still released in monaural sound,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063518/|title=Romeo and Juliet|date=October 8, 1968|access-date=January 1, 2017|via=IMDb|archive-date=December 22, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161222211813/http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063518/|url-status=live}}</ref> stereo being reserved almost exclusively for expensive musicals such as ''[[West Side Story (1961 film)|West Side Story]]'',<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055614/|title=West Side Story|date=December 23, 1961|access-date=January 1, 2017|via=IMDb|archive-date=November 23, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161123125645/http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055614/?|url-status=live}}</ref> ''[[My Fair Lady (film)|My Fair Lady]]''<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058385/|title=My Fair Lady|date=December 25, 1964|access-date=January 1, 2017|via=IMDb|archive-date=November 25, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151125054610/http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058385/|url-status=live}}</ref> and ''[[Camelot (film)|Camelot]]'',<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061439/|title=Camelot|date=October 25, 1967|access-date=January 1, 2017|via=IMDb|archive-date=December 16, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161216150340/http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061439/|url-status=live}}</ref> or epics such as ''[[Ben-Hur (1959 film)|Ben-Hur]]''<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052618/|title=Ben-Hur|date=January 29, 1960|access-date=January 1, 2017|via=IMDb|archive-date=April 12, 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070412115233/http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052618/|url-status=live}}</ref> and ''[[Cleopatra (1963 film)|Cleopatra]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056937/|title=Cleopatra|date=July 31, 1963|access-date=January 1, 2017|via=IMDb|archive-date=December 3, 2003|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20031203014553/https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056937/|url-status=live}}</ref> Stereo was also reserved for [[Drama film|dramas]] with a strong reliance on sound effects or music, such as ''[[The Graduate]].''<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061722/|title=The Graduate|date=December 22, 1967|access-date=January 1, 2017|via=IMDb|archive-date=November 8, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201108141234/http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061722/|url-status=live}}</ref>