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Topic: Death to the Green Band!
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Frank Angel
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Posts: 5305
From: Brooklyn NY USA
Registered: Dec 1999
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posted 02-23-2002 05:02 PM
They are ugly as sin -- I've seen them soft focus while the trailer was perfectly in focus. If the MPAA wants them to play, then they should bloody well get their act together make something that is presentable, not something that looks like 16mm.I cut them off whenever I can, although I have come across some where the audio actually starts in the last few frames in the rating. Those I am forced to leave in so as not to cut off the opening audio, but I make them short enough just to let the rating box subliminally sink into the audience's brains and no more. Besides, aren't almost all trailers cut [G] so they can play with any feature, no matter what the feature rating? If ALL the trailers you are playing are cut to play with [G] pictures, why need them at all? The actual rating of the feature is almost always placed at the end of the trailer anyway so the audience will be given that information. If as Paul G says, there is a question of the audience wondering if they are going to see T&A during the trailers, I would have Filmack make a snipe (nice and in focus) for me that says "All trailers at this theatre are rated [G] for all audiences." Stick that right after your "Previews of Coming Attractions" and be done with it, rather than repeat the same 15 second green junk 6 times. What I will NEVER EVER play is the rating at the END of the feature, not that most people are still sitting there, but what's THAT about? Does the MPAA think the people don't know what the rating is before they buy their tickets and enter the theatre? Do they think people will see the rating at the end of the film and say, "Gee, I didn't know this picture was rated R, I want my money back."? It serves no useful purpose and besides, it ruins showmanship for those venues that have curtains. I close the curtains after the last frame of the feature, not on some ugly MPAA bid for free self-promotion. Then there's the question of the rating title BEFORE the feature. Has anyone seen this? I have had a few -- I will try to remember the titles -- but come on, does the MPAA really think I am going to ruin the feature opening by preceding it with foreign nonsense? It ruins the presentation. I close the curtains after the cartoon/attraction reel. It must open on the first frame of the movie, not some MPAA gack. If there are studio trailers attached to the head of R1, then they are taken off and put in the attraction reel. Curtains close after the cartoon, attraction and short subject play --- warmers are brought to a glow -- during the pause the mask moves from 1.37 to whatever wide screen ratio and then the feature starts....at the feature's first frame, not with additional trailers or a rating title. The MPAA can frown all they want, but that's the way we do it and Jack Valenti himself won't make us change it.
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Frank Angel
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From: Brooklyn NY USA
Registered: Dec 1999
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posted 02-25-2002 05:04 AM
Steve, first of, congrats on that beautiful screening room ....and you get a gold medal for the curtains! And your compromise to showmanship is a good one. Obviously you have to show every frame the client gives you for a press screening -- the press need to see the rating. For you guys seem to love the rating title before the actual beginning of the feature for informative purposes, well, let's see, the patron sees the rating in every newspaper ad, Ebert and Roper give the rating in their weekly critic show, it is up on the marquee before he even enters the theatre, it is on every one-sheet in the theatre display cases, it's next to the title at the box office where he buys his tickets and it is next to the title above the door of the auditorium that he has to walk under to get to his seat. The chance that a patron would be unaware of the film's rating and need to see it on the screen before the feature is ludicrous. And excuse me, but I DO run the entire contracted title -- everything from the first frame of the FEATURE on Reel 1 to the very last frame of the FEATURE on the last reel. I DO NOT run everything that is on the reel. I don't project the countdown leaders or tail run-out, and by gum, I don't project a self-serving, out-of-focus green or blue, 480 frame length of irrelevant footage attached to the head of the reel with all the other non-projectable, extraneous lab run off, even though it is placed incorrectly by the lab between the leader and the first frame of the film. 
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) Nevertheless, these are considered part of the movie and shouldn't be cut off. My idea of "Showmanship" has always been to show the COMPLETE film or trailer; if you're going to cut off rating cards and stuff like that you might as well cut out the 'boring' parts of the movie too.
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