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Westrex
The sound company that, along with RCA, ruled over film sound for the first 40 years of the movie industry. Its equipment encompassed the whole chain: microphones, production recorders, re-recording consoles and machines to optical cameras, all of which were leased to studios in exchange for royalty fees.
By the 1970s — with the coming of manufacturers of specialized equipment such as consoles (Quad-Eight), mag machines (Magna-Tech) and stereo processes (Dolby Laboratories) — most licensees were not being renewed.
The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia acknowledges Australia’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we work and live and gives respect to their Elders both past and present.