Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site mit-eddie.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!ronnie From: ronnie@mit-eddie.UUCP (Ronnie Schnell) Newsgroups: net.movies Subject: Spielberg (Back to the Future) Message-ID: <4660@mit-eddie.UUCP> Date: Thu, 11-Jul-85 18:55:28 EDT Article-I.D.: mit-eddi.4660 Posted: Thu Jul 11 18:55:28 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 13-Jul-85 09:14:49 EDT Distribution: net.movies Organization: MIT, Cambridge, MA Lines: 16 I have noticed that in all movies that involve Steven Spielberg in a production capacity, there seems to be a lot of blatant commercialism, especially for a certain cola manufacturing company mentioned in some previous articles. In back to the future, there was about 5 minutes of commercials for a certain department store. They were in a shopping mall and this department store was all you could see the whole time. It is certainly conceivable that these companies were ``sponsors.'' Does anyone know anymore about this? #Ron ...mit-eddie!ronnie ronnie@mit-mc.arpa ronnie@mit-eddie.arpa ronnie@suhep.bitnet (315) 422-1187