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Author Topic: AMC now leaving green bands on? Mitchell Dvoskin Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1869 From: West Milford, NJ, USA Registered: Jan 2001 posted 09-13-2006 12:35 PM                     Green - trailer approved for ALL audiences. Red - Trailer approved for RESTRICTED audiences. And the reason they are called Green/Red band trailers is that from the time that the rating code was introduced in the late 1960's, up until sometime in the 1980's, trailers and came with reusable paper bands around the them that were either green OR red, depending upon the content. The paper band would have the title and format (flat/scope) of the trailer printed or written on them.  |  IP: Logged Mark Hajducki Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 500 From: Edinburgh, UK Registered: May 2003 posted 09-13-2006 06:59 PM                     quote: Gordon McLeod was the last to post As far as other countries go, are your ratings systems voluntary for theatres to follow (like the MPAA in the United States) or are they government regulated? In the UK (most) films are rated by the BBFC. It is usually a condition of a cinemas license (issued by the local council) that they uphold the age restrictions issued by the BBFC. Councils have the ability to allow cinemas to show unclassified films, change the rating (up or down), or prevent a film being shown at all. Trailers are also rated by the BBFC and cinemas have to show them with film of the same (or higher) rating. Trailers come with a basic certificate at the begining although a lot of cinemas don't show this. One oddity I noticed is that the trailer for 'An Inconvenient Truth' is rated higher than the film itself (PG as opposed to U). This may be due to the BBFC's viewing of the material in context.  |  IP: Logged John Joseph Fink Film Handler Posts: 60 From: West Hartford, CT Registered: Feb 2006 posted 09-13-2006 07:15 PM                        Clearview Cinemas in New Jersey (one of the worst cinemas in NJ as far as presentation, but the only chain that runs a major Northern NJ art house) is now cutting off the the MPAA bands as well (and often doing a careless job of it, which is to be expected). AMC however has ceased - I saw bands in front of Wicker Man and Crank. So much for Clearview following in AMC's now dominate in Northern NJ footsteps.  |  IP: Logged Monte L Fullmer Film God Posts: 8367 From: Nampa, Idaho, USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 09-13-2006 10:46 PM                     quote: Mitchell Dvoskin trailers and came with reusable paper bands around the them that were either green OR red, depending upon the content. The paper band would have the title and format (flat/scope) of the trailer printed or written on them. Like these trailers... ..and some of us DO remember these warnings that were printed on the band that NSS instructed for the operators on trailer return policy: -Monte  |  IP: Logged Mike Heenan Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1896 From: Scottsdale, AZ, USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 09-13-2006 10:55 PM                     Actually, at least well into the 70s, they used brown/tan wrappers for the greenbands.  |  IP: Logged Jesse Skeen Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1517 From: Sacramento, CA Registered: Aug 2000 posted 09-14-2006 03:02 PM                     I think they stopped using those around 1989-90, since I worked at a theater that opened in late 1989 and they had a few trailers with bands around them the first few months they were open.  |  IP: Logged Caleb Johnstone-Cowan Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 593 From: London, UK Registered: Mar 2006 posted 09-14-2006 08:24 PM                     Everything in the UK has to either have the certificate for the feature displayed at the entrance to the screen or immediately before the feature on screen. I've seen a couple of films in the UK where the MPAA rating has been left on the end of the feature. Had the usual BBFC one though. Trailers are now increasingly coming with a small cerfiticate in the corner of the picture for the first few seconds rather than the traditional large rating before the trailer starts. Or there's a 'trailers are suitable for the feature' ad before they start.  |  IP: Logged Joel N. Weber II Expert Film Handler Posts: 115 From: Somerville, MA, USA Registered: Dec 2005 posted 09-17-2006 08:06 PM                     The choice of red and green seems a little unfortunate from the perspective that the most common form of colorblindness involves an inability to distinguish between those two colors. Though I bet someone who's aware of this can in theory read the text in the red bands. On the other hand, that's not nearly as obvious as noticing the color difference (assuming one can distinguish the colors).  |  IP: Logged Bruce McGee Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1776 From: Asheville, NC USA... Nowhere in Particular. Registered: Aug 1999 posted 09-18-2006 12:32 PM                     Now, dont quote me on this one, but, if my memory serves me, the 'X' rating used a yellow background. Saw it on "Fritz The Cat."  |  IP: Logged Mike Heenan Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1896 From: Scottsdale, AZ, USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 09-18-2006 05:17 PM                     Thats right Bruce... I think I remember I had a Love God? (don knotts) trailer with the yellow X or Mature rating tag, as it was IB tech print.  |  IP: Logged Blaine Young Master Film Handler Posts: 477 From: Kirkland, WA, USA Registered: Sep 2006 posted 09-20-2006 12:24 AM                     Out of morbid curiosity (I think taking off the green band is tantamount to sacrilege) and in the interest of showmanship, how does one account for the missing soundtrack that is stored on the snipped part of the trailer? Was it deemed "ok" to simply allow the sound to drop in part way into the trailer? Blaine  |  IP: Logged Dustin Mitchell Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1865 From: Mondovi, WI, USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 09-20-2006 02:22 AM                     From what I understand that's exactly the case. On a side note, I prefer leaving the green bands on as previously stated-however, as a 'censor' feature they're worthless. The trailer for the new 'Texas Chainsaw Massacare' movie is green band-which in theory means you're supposed to be able to run that in front of a movie of any rating, including G. What a crock of shit. For me the color of the 'band' on a trailer has absolutely no relation to whether it is appropriate or not. I remeber the first 'Road Trip' trailer was red band. Then they came out with a second one that was green band. The difference? In the red band version it showed a guy holding a joint and in the green band version he was holding a Dorito chip.  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 09-20-2006 02:28 AM                        Since the studios and NATO are now "encouraging" the theatres to only play trailers with appropriate films (i.e., no PG-13 or R trailers with G movies), I think the trailer-makers have been pushing the envelope with what they're including in trailers. I remember the Clint Eastwood one a few years ago where he said "I don't give a rat's ass about Jesus Christ" ... in a green-band trailer!  |  IP: Logged Frank Angel Film God Posts: 5305 From: Brooklyn NY USA Registered: Dec 1999 posted 09-20-2006 10:32 AM                        Well Mike opens up a huge can of worms with the rating system in general in that the elusive "guidelines" are basically in the minds of the secret panel and are about as consist ant as shifting sand (and the subject of a very pointed documentary, NOT YET RATED). Seems from year to year the threshold of this or that red flag changes, not only due to the changing mores of the culture -- which is appropriate -- but also the political machinations of MPAA members as well.  |  IP: Logged Chris Hipp Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1462 From: Mesquite, Tx (east of Dallas) Registered: Jul 2003 posted 09-27-2006 05:25 PM                     I saw a movie at AMC last night with the greenbands on. The only problem that I noticed is they cut it right at the first frame of green so you can see the splicing tape in screen. They could at least leave one frame of black to hide it.  |  IP: Logged

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