On Wed, 28 Oct 1998 17:04:58 +1000 Kate Bowles <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > This prompts me to ask whether similar special conditions have been created > for TV screenings of this or any other film in other countries? Is it only > _Schindler's List_ that is treated differently? When a major football match is shown on UK commercial television, they usually show the actual play uninterrupted (i.e. 45 minute sections), with vast quantities of adverts during the half-time interval and at either end of the programme. Whether this is the broadcasters' decision or a condition of their licence to show the match I don't know. "Schindler's List" has only ever been shown by the BBC in this country, which does not broadcast adverts anyway (except ones for their own programmes and services). I was working as a projectionist in a multiplex when the film came out, and we showed adverts and trailers as per normal, both before the start and during the interval of those performances which had one. One of the reels included an advert for Israeli wine, the other an advert for Volkswagen cars, which I thought was rather ironic. L. __________________________________ Leo Enticknap Postgraduate Common Room 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