porges (02/23/83)
#N:inmet:8500001:000:1219 inmet!porges Feb 18 12:11:00 1983 As regards eagle!karn's question about NY channel 11's butchery of S.T. episodes -- first of all it's WPIX not WNEW, but anyone can make a misteak....no, my point is: I remember some years ago Ch. 11 showed "A Piece of the Action" and cut Kirk's great explanation of the card game (a bit past the 1/2 hour mark). Recently I saw it on the SAME channel -- and the explanation is back. I guess sometimes Paramount sends out new copies...does that make any sense? Anybody know what's going on? Another bizzare cut -- real trivia -- in "City on the Edge of Forever" the Captain's Log entry after the titles is something like "One drop of [that drug, I forget it] can save a man's life, ten times that amount can kill him. Dr. McCoy has had 100 times that amount....." For some reason Ch. 11 cuts out the middle -- "One drop of [drug] can save a man's life -- Dr. McCoy has had 100 times that amount..." What gets me is that this cut saves about a second and a half -- why do they hack up sentences like this? I suppose if they cut 15 clauses like this they can sell 30 seconds of Data Processing School ads, but really.... -- Don Porges ...harpo!inmet!porges ...hplabs!sri-unix!cca!ima!inmet!porges
mabgarstin (02/23/83)
If you are wondering about why would Paramold cut 5 seconds from the
middle of a sentence would the possibility of the program originally being
on some medium such as real movie film and such film being hammered through
the projector several thousand times and requiring a few bits being spliced
( "bit s(p)lice"...boo,hiss ) rest any further submissions on this trivia
topic?
MAB
trying to make contiguous memory
on his bit splice processor.davy (02/25/83)
#R:inmet:8500001:pur-ee:14000004:000:660 pur-ee!davy Feb 24 09:16:00 1983 I watch Star Trek on two stations, WTHR (13) out of Indianapolis, and WFLD (32) out of Chicago. Occasionally I'll see the same episode on each close enough together (like on 13 one week and on 32 the next) that I can remember the episode real well. I have noticed that the prits are NOT the same all the time; i.e., one print has lines there, the other doesn't. I think it's mostly commercials, 32 (an independent) has about 6-8 breaks, as opposed to 13 (NBC), which only has 4-5. If you're a MASH freak, you'll notice that those episodes are all chopped up too (by coincidence, I also watch MASH on 13 and 32). --Dave Curry pur-ee!davy