As for trailers instructing the viewer not to see the film, I draw a blank, but two immediate examples come to mind of specially made trailers consisting of footage which does not appear in the completed film. Firstly, "Psycho" - a five-minute trailer in which Hitchcock wanders round the Bates Motel set and delivers a monologue. Secondly "Godzilla" (1998) - one of the trailers depicts a teacher showing some schoolkids round a museum with a dinosaur skeleton, then Godzilla comes along and smashes it up. Whether this sequence was intended to go in the finished film and was subsequently cut I don't know - another trailer shows a man fishing in New York harbour and catching rather more than he bargained for, and this scene is in the actual film. The nearest I can do to a "don't see this film" is a trailer for a 1970s martial arts film, "Hap Ki Do" (goodness knows where it came from, but I have it in my projection box as a four-track mag test film). It is about a variant of kung-fu practised by women - it opens with a stentorian commentary: "DO NOT let your girlfriend see THIS film. In case you're with her now, we're only going to show a few VERY MILD scenes from this picture". We then see some pretty agressive females chopping up bricks and telephone directories with their bare hands, kicking in walls and various other destructive pastimes. The trailer finishes with an intertitle: "WARNING: DO NOT LET YOUR GIRLFRIEND SEE THIS FILM. THE PRODUCERS ACCEPT NO RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE CONSEQUENCES OF IGNORING THIS ADVICE." L. __________________________________ Leo Enticknap Postgraduate Common Room (newly renamed) School of English University of Exeter Queen's Building, The Queen's Drive Exeter Devon EX4 4QH United Kingdom email: [log in to unmask] ---- Online resources for film/TV studies may be found at ScreenSite http://www.tcf.ua.edu/screensite