[Olog-hai]

You think “Entr’acte” breaks would be a good sell in the theaters these days?

[a fool in paradise]

I can say I've grown sick and tired of all of the other over 2 hour films. And Scorcese didn't do much more with an additional hour of "film" in Wolf of Wall Street. Time was, film length was a consideration for the studios as well because each additional reel of film cost the studio money (a complete film print could run $3000 or more). More reels, meant more film (and more shipping costs). Now we are in a digital world nearing Charles Francis Jenkins' idea of "radiomovies" transmitted to theaters to be watched by a large audience, competing with his designs for television (what we call cable, transmitted by wire) and radiovision (what we called television, by broadcast signal).

I prefer to watch movies on film. I don't think the craft is getting better with the new technologies. They "photoshop" the colors in movies these days and run other "film process" filters over their videos to disguise the medium used. Would anyone be happy if "instagram filters" replaced all other forms of photography?

[BenLurkin]

Next time you watch “The Longest Day” complete and uncut — keep an ear out during the first half for repetition of the line “Hold until relieved,” right up to just prior to the intermission.