ANH running time difference 1991-1995

Author: daveytod
Date: 27-Jul-2005, 6:36 PM

Author: daveytod
Time: 27-Jul-2005 6:36 PM
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Hi all,

I was recently given a copy of ANH on VHS from 1991 (special widescreen edition). Was just checking it out and noticed it had a running time of 122 minutes. However, my 1995 VHS (the original for the last time) has a running time of 116 minutes.

Anyone know what happened to the missing 6 minutes?

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Author: skyman8081
Time: 27-Jul-2005 7:57 PM
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maybe one counted the end credits and one didn't.

Time compression is another one.

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Author: Senator_Polk_of_NJ
Time: 27-Jul-2005 8:22 PM
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The actual running time for film does include credits, so A New Hope is actually 121 minutes. Without the credits it's about 117 minutes.

Author: Gillean
Time: 28-Jul-2005 12:23 AM
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Four options, the first two already mentioned.

1) Credits counted and not counted.

2) Time compression, in the past some movies were sped up slightly to fit on 120min tapes, I believe some of the Superman movies are examples of this. Obviously 121 and 122 minute films wouldn't fit on a 120min tape.

3) One of the copies is NTSC format , the other PAL. PAL tapes were always 4% faster than the film as it is one frame a second faster. If you include rounding in the calculations then that would work with your two runtimes.

4) The box is just wrong, someone typed in the wrong movies runtime.

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