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Mark Lensenmayer
Phenomenal Film Handler
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Posts: 1605
From: Upper Arlington, OH
Registered: Sep 1999
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posted 11-05-2001 07:08 PM
I just saw MONSTERS,INC. and saw the following trailers in this order: Harry Potter, Star Wars Breathing, Return to Neverland, FOR THE BIRDS short, theater policy trailer. Then, the picture started.That doesn't look like directly and immediately preceding to me. Anyone else find any "rule breakers" out there? Oh, in case you Disney folks want to find this, its on one of the screens in Central Ohio...you'll have to find which one! ------------------ "As a moral to young men who come down to the city, don't go round breaking people's tambourines."
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Christopher K. Williams
Film Handler
Posts: 26
From: Redmond, WA, USA
Registered: Apr 2000
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posted 11-08-2001 02:47 AM
I have always ignored those "Do not cut these trailers off of the feature under penalty of death" notes you find in the can, since our company policy (Regal) is to put the sound and policy trailers AFTER the previews.Anyway, we usually receive a memo from Regal (as we did with Monsters, Inc.) stating that we have an agreement with the studio to do it that way. As far as shorts go, we are supposed to put them AFTER the policy trailer. This makes sense to me. I did put a short on *before* the policy once, when I was a paranoid new projectionist, because I was afraid people would think that the animated short (before a non-animated film) after our "Feature Presentation" trailer would confuse people into thinking they were in the wrong auditorium. My reasoning was that the short wasn't the "Feature Presentation", but, well, just a short. But that was when we were an ACT III theater, and the district office told me to do whatever I wanted when I asked them about it (God... that'll never happen again!!!). As far as what order to put them in, I agree with Ken for the most part... why reverse the order? I usually try to put the best trailer on right before the policy, so IMHO, that would be Star Wars. Seeing Neverland after that would be anticlimactic. I seldom see more than one attached trailer anymore, but if there were, and if they were from the same studio, I *would* break them up. It has always been our theater's policy (I'm not sure if it is our company's) to have A) No more than two trailers from the same studio on one trailer set unless it is a special sneak preview or our trailer programming sheet dictates it, and B) Trailers from the same studio get broken up with a different studio's trailer in between. I don't know if anybody practices that anymore... it's a minor presentation issue we learned from one of the more experienced projectionists when we first opened. Plus most of our trailer sets are dictated to us by corporate these days, except for the occasional art film we receive. Okay... I'm rambling. Sorry. Chris
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Paul G. Thompson
The Weenie Man
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From: Mount Vernon WA USA
Registered: Nov 2000
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posted 11-12-2001 10:19 PM
We run four trailers if at all possible, no more than that. Too much crap on the screen is a customer turn-off. The order we run the trailers is up to the person who makes them up for splicing on the the head of the feature. In our theaters, the actual trailers being run is the management responsibility. However, when I see a trailer that does not fit the normal, (such as a sleeze one that has no business being on a PG or G movie,) management allows me to pull it immediately and put a cross-plug or something else in its place. If there is a trailer on the head of the movie we know we are not going to run, we will not run that preview. Anyone who thinks we are going to advertize a movie for a different chain two miles away from us is definately out of their skull. ![](http://www.film-tech.com/ubb/smile.gif) In short, we will run no trailers of any kind that we know we are not going to get in our theater.
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