Malcolm In The Middle: pilot episode cut on BBC TWO
Martin France
It's only a small, but an important, one.
With my internet connection being at a lose end, I thought I'd
download the "Emmy Consideration" version of the show currently
available on news:alt.binaries.multimedia .
I found that the establishing shot outside Stevie's house at about
eight mins in is cut on the BBC version. It's a ground level view of
the front garden leading up to his house. Pictured are a reclining
gnome, a pottery toadstool and small wooden sign reading "Kasa
Kenarban." There are "outdoors" sound f/x over this.
In fact, it isn't *totally* cut - if you have a tape, you might be
able to see that it is present - represented by just a single field
(half a frame)!
It would have been helpful to have had this shot included as when I
watched the show (for the first time) last week, I'd assumed that the
following scene with Stevie was in Malcolm's house (his Mum had told
him to be *home* on time for the "play date"), right up until Stevie
opened his comic book cupboard....
The cut trims the last few frames from the previous scene, too - and
so we lost the door slam sound at the end altogether..
(B*st*rds.)
The cut is maybe 66 frames or so, but that includes a fade to black..
I imply no motive - it might simply be incompetence, nor who's
responsible.
There could be other cuts too (there's tightening up of black &
silence elsewhere) - I only noticed this one where content was lost
(obviously we also lost several frames at the beginning due to BBC TWO
presentation's mishandling of the intro)..
Marty
Joel Goodman @ Superfi
would otherwise appear before the ads in the US. Maybe they feel this
improves the flow of the programme and allows it to fit with their
non-commercial (!) image. I've noticed the same absence of fades on shows
such as TNG...
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David Taylor
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> How much free time do you have?
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How much free time do you have to go trawling through 16 day old usenet
posts to see who you can insult next?
And next time, consider not posting upside down. And perhaps you could trim
some of the stuff you quote.
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Martin
BBC remove all Fad to blacks and also the Dolby Surround bit at the front.
I reckon they cut up to a minute out sometimes.
Memory vs DVD