Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site voder.UUCP Path: utzoo!decvax!tektronix!hplabs!nsc!voder!kev From: kev@voder.UUCP (Kevin Hoskins) Newsgroups: net.movies Subject: Re: Strange Preview Practices Message-ID: <847@voder.UUCP> Date: Wed, 14-Aug-85 11:40:01 EDT Article-I.D.: voder.847 Posted: Wed Aug 14 11:40:01 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 17-Aug-85 21:12:57 EDT References: <3254@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU> <1201@umcp-cs.UUCP> Distribution: na Organization: National Semiconductor, Santa Clara Lines: 17 Xref: tektronix net.movies:07549 > >..... One other thing of note is that in the theatres, > >they also show a lot of minute-long+ previews. Is this true elsewhere too? > > One thing that's started around here is the practice of running COMMERCIALS > with the previews! I mean commercials just like on the small screen! > > Has this obnoxious practice appeared elsewhere? > > C Wingate umcp-cs!mangoe (here is C.P., Md.) > Yes Charley, this practice (and it is obnoxious) has spread; to the San Francisco bay area. Some dumb jean company (rhymes with Lardash) was the featurette. (But wait a minute, who was the dumb one here; the jean company that made the commercial or the theaters that showed it?)