[Afamilyatwar-list] Episode 10: Missing Content

[Brian Renforth]

I wonder what Acorn were playing at with these needless edits? Trying to "speed up" the action in the thought of making it more suitable for a modern audience?  I understand one Season 2 episode runs for just over 40 minutes. That's at least 10 minutes cut out!

Did Acorn get authorization to make these edits or did they make cuts unilaterally believing the average viewer wouldn't miss anything? Perhaps we'll never know.

It must be said Acorn weren't alone in doing this at the time.

Thank goodness they're firms like Network who take care to present programmes as they were originally made.  The BBC too with their DVD releases in recent years.

Brian
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From: Scott Filderman via Afamilyatwar-list<mailto:afamilyatwar-list at baylor.edu>
Sent: ‎29/‎03/‎2018 18:26
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Subject: Re: [Afamilyatwar-list] Episode 10: Missing Content

The phrase should have been “military planning.” Oops!




On Thursday, March 29, 2018, 1:22 PM, Scott Filderman via Afamilyatwar-list <afamilyatwar-list at baylor.edu> wrote:

Around the 24:30 mark in the Dutch Just Entertainment set, there is a videotape scene set in which Edwin has momentarily lost his specs, which he finds in the couch with Jean’s help. This barely 30-second domestic scene occurs between two  planning scenes, so I suppose for the sake of continuity (or God knows what demands of advert time), this scene was edited out of the Acorn set.



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