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Author Topic: Intermission Burleigh Ibbott Film Handler Posts: 46 From: Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, UK Registered: Jul 2006 posted 10-12-2009 12:52 PM                     I have a Vic 5 with the 12000 ft spools fixed to the plinth so any film over 2 hrs I have to put a intermission in it. When I showed Harry Potter 6 on its release date I was sent from Warner Bros a intermission segment especially designed in the same wording as the Harry Potter font used in the film. This is quite rare i have been told. Has anyone else been sent intermission film from distribitors?  |  IP: Logged Claude S. Ayakawa Film God Posts: 2738 From: Waipahu, Hawaii, USA Registered: Aug 2002 posted 10-12-2009 01:45 PM                        Did they also tell you where to pause the film for the intermission? -Claude  |  IP: Logged Burleigh Ibbott Film Handler Posts: 46 From: Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, UK Registered: Jul 2006 posted 10-12-2009 03:14 PM                     Yes they did in a letter with the film.  |  IP: Logged John Wilson Film God Posts: 5438 From: Sydney, Australia. Registered: Dec 1999 posted 10-12-2009 06:01 PM                     We had one sent to us in Belgium for Harry 5. Every film played there in a town called Genk, regardless of its length, breaks for an intermission.  |  IP: Logged Caleb Johnstone-Cowan Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 593 From: London, UK Registered: Mar 2006 posted 10-12-2009 06:24 PM                     Some prints of Pirates 3 in the UK had an intermission card. I can't think of anything else recently. The reason someone (very low down) at Disney gave me when I asked was it was based on responses from test screenings that the film was too long. My then work didn't play the film, that was a relaxing week! Do distributors tell you where to break the film even if they don't supply an intermission card?  |  IP: Logged Jack Theakston Master Film Handler Posts: 411 From: New York, USA Registered: Sep 2007 posted 10-12-2009 07:21 PM                     Anyone want to enlighten us unlucky Americans where the intermissions are supposed to go on these films?  |  IP: Logged Burleigh Ibbott Film Handler Posts: 46 From: Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, UK Registered: Jul 2006 posted 10-16-2009 09:00 AM                     On Inglourious Basterds, Universal sent me a letter to put the intermission after reel 4. Mostly its only when i get a film on release date that i recieve info for where to put the intermission. On second run films i dont hear a dicky bird. So I stick it after reel 4 mostly or reel 5 for 9/10 reel films like Australia.  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 10-16-2009 08:28 PM                        I wonder why the film companies think that other countries' projectionists/managers can "handle" intermissions while we Americans can't? I wish they would at least give us the option. I would like to see NATO start some kind of an initiative that any movie over 140 minutes long must have an intermission.  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 10-16-2009 08:58 PM                     Hell, I'd like to see just one initiative that NATO actually follows through on at all!  |  IP: Logged John Wilson Film God Posts: 5438 From: Sydney, Australia. Registered: Dec 1999 posted 10-17-2009 01:27 AM                     Mike, dump the platter and get a tower or a mutt. Then they'll have no say in it.  |  IP: Logged Frank Angel Film God Posts: 5305 From: Brooklyn NY USA Registered: Dec 1999 posted 10-17-2009 07:42 PM                        It's the ego of the American filmmakers -- they think breaking up their incredibly artistic masterpiece with an intermission "dilutes" their "creative intent" and somehow harms the "integrity" of their great film....like their 2 and a half hours of many times questionable entertainment is akin to life or death brain surgery. So basically they are saying, they only really care that Americans get to see their gift to mankind in it's pure, uncompromised form -- the rest of the world, well, their friends won't be catching the movie in Karzakistan, so who cares? as long as they look good here. You know, no one else on the planet is sophistocated enough to appreciate artistic integrity except the Hollywood elite. Oh ya, and then there is that other issue that it certainly would help exhibition if there were more films with intermission since intermissions = increase concession sales. But distribution doesn't get a cut from concessions sales so the idea of them helping out their exhibitor "partners" is, well, Every single American release that plays in India is sent over there with a built in intermission. Any F-T members from India? Maybe we can tap them to relay back info as to where the intermission goes on those over 2 & 1/2 titles. Uploading a .jpg file of a single intermission frame would be nice too -- lots of us could use the preshow gack projector to put the intermission title on the screen. Or would the studios claim that's copyright infringment? I bet Disney would.  |  IP: Logged Mike Croaro Master Film Handler Posts: 394 From: Millbrae, CA Registered: Apr 2005 posted 10-17-2009 08:05 PM                     FRANK WROTE: "It's the ego of the American filmmakers -- they think breaking up their incredibly artistic masterpiece........" MIKE WRITES: That's a good one. Most films that Hollywood makes are less than stellar. I havent'e seen a trully worthy one in over a decade. Mike Croaro  |  IP: Logged Bill Enos Film God Posts: 2081 From: Richmond, Virginia, USA Registered: Apr 2000 posted 10-17-2009 08:05 PM                     Every Indian film I've played had an intermission including a film that was only 5 reels and 86 minutes long.  |  IP: Logged Frank Angel Film God Posts: 5305 From: Brooklyn NY USA Registered: Dec 1999 posted 10-17-2009 10:23 PM                        Yup -- it's part of their culture. And I understand their intermissions are much longer than we would have here. That's been the case for Bollywood productions and they insist that American imports have that mid break as well or the audience would be REALLY upset.  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 10-17-2009 10:38 PM                        There was a small 3-cinema circuit in north-central Montana that had intermissions in every film. They would just stop after the 3rd reel, no matter what was going on. I like intermissions, but that's just wrong. The owner of that circuit has died and his wife sold two of the three theatres to a slightly larger chain (Polson Theatres), which discontinued the intermissions.  |  IP: Logged

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