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From: hughes@mother.DEC (Gary Hughes - CSSE uVAX & AI Systems Group)
Newsgroups: net.movies
Subject: TV vs cinema prints
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Date: Tue, 8-May-84 11:52:04 EDT
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Posted: Tue May  8 11:52:04 1984
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For lots of movies there are different prints produced for cinema and TV 
consumption. These can differ in running times as well as other minor 
changes to deal with different screen aspect ratios etc.

Occasionally, a director or producer will refuse to make some of these 
changes as in the case of 'Manhattan'. If you watch it on TV you will 
notice that it is shown in the original aspect ratio.

Not all mods make the movie shorter either. The Tv print for Star Trek:TMP 
is actually longer than the film using some not quite correctly edited 
footage of one of the airlocks (see Starlog for details). As to what gets 
onto video cassette - all I can say is the version release on cassette in 
Australia (probably all PAL viewing regions) is the cimena print.

Gary
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