New York City, the 70s, The 4:30 Movie.
- Great nostalgia. Channel 7 was a network affiliate which ran feature-length movies in a 90 minute block - that means they were all cut to 69 minutes of running time to allow for commercials. Their most notorious achievement involved paring down the 108 minute musical Brigadoon to a comprehensible 69 minute narrative - by cutting out those pesky songs which did nothing to forward the plot! The film version of Brigadoon had already cut out the two risque Meg Brockie songs which had been in the stage version, so the 4:30 movie managed to run Brigadoon virtually music-free!
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