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Editing of inflight movies
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2007 07:35:07 -0500
Begin forwarded message: From: Peter Capek <capek () ieee org> Date: January 16, 2007 11:01:05 PM EST To: ole () cisco com Cc: Dave Farber - IP <dave () farber net> Subject: Fwd: Editing of inflight movies Ole (may I call you that?)I sent your note to the PR person for the World Airline Entertainment Association. Here is his (rather surprising, I think) reply, mistakenly addressed to you at my e-mail address:
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: AssocHQ () aol com <AssocHQ () aol com> Date: Jan 16, 2007 7:24 PM Subject: Re: Editing of inflight movies To: capek () ieee org Dear Mr. Jacobsen:While there is no absolute industrywide editing guideline, typically the word "God" would be considered for edited out of an inflight film (shown on main-screen) if the word were part of an expletive (e.g., "God Damn"). I cannot speak for the film distributor ... but my understanding is that for the airline-edited version of "The Queen," the word "God" was mistakenly edited out throughout the film ... and that the distributor of the film has already created a corrected version of the edit and made this available to the airlines.
You can contact the Distributor directly at: Jaguar Distribution -- 818.508-3377. The following is from the WAEA website (www.waea.org): IFE Editing Standards Inflight Editing StandardsVaries somewhat by airline and by region, but generally inflight editing standards (for main-screen exhibition) are similar to, but more conservative than TV-editing standards. No airline crash scenes or references to airline disasters; careful about terrorism or references to terrorism; no nudity/sex scenes (U.S./Asia more conservative than Europe); no profanity; no images of/references to other airlines; no racist comments or denigrating references to culture, religion, or nationality; careful about violence and bloodshed (U.S./Asia less sensitive than Europe); careful about references to guns, drug abuse, physical abuse. Most ideal inflight film genres: comedy, romantic-comedy, light adventure.
I hope this helps! Rob Brookler, WAEA SpokespersonIn a message dated 1/16/2007 3:21:54 P.M. Pacific Standard Time, capek () ieee org writes:
Hello.... I wonder if you can shed any light on the question posed in thefollowing. (I realize that you work for a trade association and that the
editing has been done on behalf of the airline in question, but I suspect you're at least familiar with the reasoning...) Thank you. I'd like to post your response publicly; if you want your name not included in that, please let me know. Peter Capek "United Airlines is Pleased to Present" ... "This movie has been edited to fit your screen and for timing..." Last week I flew from San Francisco to London and watched "The Queen" starring Helen Mirren, now a Golden Globe Award winner for this movie. As often happens, I didn't catch the start (dinner), so I ended up watching the whole movie 2 or 3 times to get the parts that I had missed. The first time around I noticed a few places where I thought there was some kind of audio problem, but on re-watching I realized that EVERY time someone utters "God" it is silenced. The most amusing example is when the Queen is giving a live address to the nation and you can see the auto-cue which has the word "God" scrolling by, but you cannot hear her say it in this United-edited version. I have asked several people why this editing was done, but so far we all remain puzzled. Is it that post 9/11 we can no longer say "God" without adding "or Allah or Buddha or..." ??? Tell me I am not crazy, please... Ole Ole J. Jacobsen Editor and Publisher, The Internet Protocol Journal Cisco Systems Tel: +1 408-527-8972 GSM: +1 415-370-4628E-mail: ole () cisco com <mailto:ole () cisco com> URL: http:// www.cisco.com/ipj
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