Jack1000
07-05-2003, 01:07 PM
Guys,
As we all know, it is now common practice for local syndicates and TV Land to reduce all sitcoms from their original 25-26 minute lengths to between 22-24 minutes to allow for more commercial time, or just to annoy the shi* out of people who hate having their classics tampered with.
You see a great deal of quick "fade to black" where one scene ends and another scene will often start in the middle of a line. Current runs of Green Acres (on my local station here), Gilligans Island, and Brady Bunch employ this practice a lot. It is assumed that when we see a quick fade to black that something is missing that was included in the original master print.
My question is, is this always the case that something is missing? My friends have VHS versions of shows that have "fade to blacks" in them. (Not sure about DVD versions) If something wouldn't be missing from the original print, why would a quick "fade to black" exist in the first place?
Jack
As we all know, it is now common practice for local syndicates and TV Land to reduce all sitcoms from their original 25-26 minute lengths to between 22-24 minutes to allow for more commercial time, or just to annoy the shi* out of people who hate having their classics tampered with.
You see a great deal of quick "fade to black" where one scene ends and another scene will often start in the middle of a line. Current runs of Green Acres (on my local station here), Gilligans Island, and Brady Bunch employ this practice a lot. It is assumed that when we see a quick fade to black that something is missing that was included in the original master print.
My question is, is this always the case that something is missing? My friends have VHS versions of shows that have "fade to blacks" in them. (Not sure about DVD versions) If something wouldn't be missing from the original print, why would a quick "fade to black" exist in the first place?
Jack