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Topic: Salem's Lot (1979)

11th Aug 2021, 7:38 PM
	zamla_71 ask little, receive alot! Member since Jul 2020 3080 Points	Here is some fun facts: (stolen from around the web) Mini-Series: A miniseries (or mini-series) is a television show that tells a story in a predetermined, limited number of episodes. A miniseries is distinguished from an ongoing television series; the latter does not usually have a predetermined number of episodes and may continue for several years. Television films broadcast over even two or three nights were commonly referred to as miniseries. TV Movies: A television film is a feature-length motion picture that is produced and originally distributed by or to a television network, in contrast to theatrical films made explicitly for initial showing in movie theaters. These features originally filled a 90-minute programming time slot (including commercials), later expanded to two hours. So this is the way i see it: When a TV Movie ends, it ends. It does not come back the next night or the next week to show the next part. It just ends, while a mini-series just do the opposite until it has aired the final episode. How about that logic????? And here is some more info about the piece, we're talking about. Salem's Lot was the first ever Stephen King miniseries, but the classic vampire tale actually has no less than four different cuts. Salem's Lot, Showing how quickly King's name was becoming a lure for audiences, it was only three years after Carrie became a hit movie that CBS decided to adapt Salem's Lot into a marquee miniseries. The original version of Salem's Lot, which aired over two nights on November 17 and 24, 1979, runs a meaty 3 hours and 20 minutes without commercials. That's much longer than a two-night broadcast TV miniseries would be today, However, it actually didn't take decades for something like that to happen to Salem's Lot, as subsequent CBS rebroadcasts were chopped down by nearly an hour. That rebroadcast version has never been released to own, but considering how slow the original cut can be, one wonders if it trims the fat in a positive way. The most curious cut of Salem's Lot is the one made for theatrical exhibition in countries outside the U.S. This edit was drastically altered, running a full 88 minutes shorter than the original TV cut, roughly the length of an entire feature film. As one might imagine, lots of full scenes are missing, and the plot is rendered rushed and nearly incomprehensible as a result. One tradeoff at least was that alternate, too violent for TV takes were used for some of the kills and attack scenes. The theatrical cut was eventually released stateside, but only on VHS. Finally, there's the most commonly available cut, that found on the Salem's Lot DVD and Blu-Ray releases. This is essentially the original broadcast, but just like they did with IT 1990's DVD and Blu-ray releases, Warner Bros. opted to cut the ending credits of part one and opening credits of part 2, as well as an opening recap that originally led into part 2. At least, unlike IT, no actual scenes that played during the credits ended up removed and lost to fans. Release Salem's Lot originally aired on CBS on November 17 and 24 of 1979 in two 2-hour segments. The following year, CBS aired an edited version of the miniseries in one 3-hour segment. Theatrical cut A 112-minute edit of the miniseries was subsequently given a theatrical release in Europe. The theatrical cut of Salem's Lot features different musical cues, alternative scenes, and deletes many scenes, including the prologue and epilogue with Ben Mears and Mark Petrie in Guatemala as well as Susan's fate. Home release The theatrical cut also aired on cable television and was titled Salem's Lot: The Movie for its VHS release. It was later released alongside A Return to Salem's Lot on VHS as a "Movie Double Feature". Warner Bros. eventually released the full-length miniseries on to VHS, as well as on DVD. The DVD release includes all of the extra scenes from the theatrical version, except the alternative scene of Larry Crockett putting Cully Sawyer's gun in his mouth. A Blu-ray version was released on September 20. By the way, how many times could you read mini-series in this section? And just one more question! How come all the other Stephen King 2 parts (or more) adaptions are listed in TV World and not Cinema World? It, The Langoliers, The Tommyknockers, The Shining (remake) etc, etc. All of them was there, except Salem's Lot (it is now). And rightfully so. They are mini-series originally produced for airing on TV. Thanx. Edited by moderator on 19th Aug 2021, 4:37 PM