Talk:Trailer (promotion)/Archives/2021

Red band is not referenced despite redirection

Going to Red band trailers redirects you to this page, despite no mention as of the last edit. Will someone add this info? 135.19.190.205 (talk) 04:37, 15 December 2019 (UTC)

Red band trailers are intended for an adult audience (R rated) while green band trailers are intended for a general audience.

Hi. I just fixed these redirects to point to Motion Picture Association film rating system#Theatrical trailers. --MZMcBride (talk) 20:18, 22 February 2021 (UTC)

red-band and/or trailer cards?

So Red-band redirects to this article (more specifically "Trailer (promotion)#Rating cards", but this article doesn't seem to mention red-band, nor ratings cards. Has explanation of red-band and/or ratings cards been moved? Time to update red-band so redirects elsewhere? --EarthFurst (talk) 23:26, 14 February 2021 (UTC)

Hi EarthFurst. Hah, yeah, I just noticed this issue as well before finding your note here. (I had been watching <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYH2sLid0Zc&has_verified=1>.) I fixed up the redirects to point to Motion Picture Association film rating system#Theatrical trailers. --MZMcBride (talk) 20:16, 22 February 2021 (UTC)

Confusing part in the introdution

In the first paragraph of the article there is a mention about the un-rewound film reels: "the theater about to show the film first had to rewind it, as early experience showed the danger of expecting an incoming film to have been rewound" So, what is so "dangerous" in expecting incoming film to be rewound? Placing it into the projector without checking? If so, I believe there would be clearer ways of saying it. Or is there some meaning I'm not getting at all?

Tohtorizorro (talk) 05:27, 22 September 2019 (UTC)

This is poorly worded. The concern is that there would be tears or other damage that would cause the film to break or catch in the gate during playback, which was a fire hazard in the nitrate era. Films were always rewound from the tail (end of the reel) to the head (beginning of the reel) and inspected during that process. Cement splicers were designed to be used to repair film when rewinding a tails-out reel, so even if a projectionist received a reel heads-out (the orientation in which it would play), they would rewind so that it was tails-out it before inspecting it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:44:100:B910:BC27:D627:3A02:B234 (talk) 02:25, 6 May 2020 (UTC)

I arrived at this article hoping to see if trailers are called such for originally showing after the feature. The intro answered it, but I don't think the reversed order the information was provided was meant to artistically echo the un-rewound film reels. 67.128.115.194 (talk) 21:53, 9 August 2020 (UTC)Passerby

Is any of this actually true though.There seem to be a lot of "citation needed" tags, and i can't find any evidence that film is typically provided "tails up". The idea of splicing trailers to the film reel also seems unlikely. A single reel is not that long in terms of play-time. Movies come on multiple reels. It would make sense to have a single reel for trailers. This whole section come across as folklore rather than actual fact Luckykaa (talk) 08:38, 18 June 2021 (UTC)