Teacher says it's been edited - Titicut Follies (1992) Discussion

Is it possible your teacher could be mistaken in the discrepancy of three minutes?

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[–] ksmith24 17 years ago

Absolutely. She seemed so sure of it though. It wouldn't surprise me if the film was edited, but my teacher could be completely wrong as well. I'll probably never know.

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[–] bigsteve11-1 17 years ago

If you are referring to the Kent State class I was there as well, I heard someone after class ask her what had been edited and she said she wasn't sure but she knows something is missing. It may have been edited for time or something too...

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[–] ksmith24 16 years ago

Actually, I was that person who asked!

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[–] spacemouse 16 years ago

Wow...lol...talk about coincidence.
Fm

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[–] jklein8787 16 years ago

I was the one who farted in class. hahahaaha, sorry about that, it was loud too.

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[–] TommyTheCat114 16 years ago

I was the teacher.

Look what your brother did to the door!

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[–] spacemouse 16 years ago

Now this is just getting freeeakkky!
What are the chances of this...I mean...to have four bulls*tters in all in one thread;)
Fm

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[–] rootbeerking12 16 years ago

I was the classroom.

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[–] yolasoul 16 years ago

i read this thread

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[–] strawberrypen101 16 years ago

I was the fart.

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[–] neonerd 14 years ago

lmao, your funny fm

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[–] chucksnow5 13 years ago

I was the fart!

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[–] a_team_rerun 13 years ago

I am the eggman goo goo g'joob

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[–] Zane_Knight 13 years ago

I was the film. I've taken 3 years to post to symbolise those 3 missing minutes.

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[–] ksmith24 11 years ago

I just came back to this thread, five years later. The funny thing is, somebody did fart in that auditorium during a lecture once.

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[–] Vid-2 9 years ago

and smelly!

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[–] strawberrypen101 16 years ago

i was the fart

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[–] rootbeerking12 16 years ago

FARTS

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[–] mainmac 14 years ago

I am Farticus!

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[–] Weir80 16 years ago

I wasn't there, but I smelled the fart and just knew it was strawberrypen101 coming out of jklein8787's behind.

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[–] Theora23 15 years ago

It's always been 84 minutes. "Wiseman and associate editor Alyne Model spend 11 months -- until May 1967 -- editing 80,000 feet of film into an 84-minute feature (32,000 feet)."

--"Documentary Dilemmas: Frederick Wiseman's Titicut Follies" by Carolyn Anderson
ISBN: 0-8093-1518-1

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[–] ksmith24 11 years ago

Thank you, Theora. I just decided to recheck my post after 5 years and perhaps I finally got my answer.

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[–] leisg 14 years ago

I watched this as a freshman at OSU in 1975. It was in a sociology class. It really bothered me and has stayed with me. There was a prolonged scene of a man, perhaped older, jumping up and down. He was naked...perhaps that was cut out?

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[–] Overmarz87 13 years ago

I just watched it and I think the part you're refering to is still in. That was the most disturbing part of the whole documentary.

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[–] thebigmouth 13 years ago

I just watched it and I think the part you're refering to is still in. That was the most disturbing part of the whole documentary.

I think the most disturbing part is the guy who keeps insisting he's sane.

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[–] meijermap 11 years ago

I agree with bigmouth. Just watched it. First time without subtitles but I missed too much so downloaded subs.
Vladimir to me he was quite sane. He appeared to be more sane than that creepy doctor who is smoking while force feeding a patient.

I think he was so angry and righteously so but that after a while he must have decided to play their game. (Or the new meds made him)

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[–] praxistens848 11 years ago

"that creepy doctor who is smoking while force feeding a patient. "

I understand our APAs want to make smoking while force-feeding mandatory @all our undisclosed locations. Some thoughts doctors would be happy with just pictures of a sneering R.B. Cheney taped to the walls; but, no, it's gotta be smoking.

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[–] chuck-526 11 years ago

Hmmm. Slight differences in length -particularly in older or less common material- are often simply due to European/PAL versions (25 frames per second) vs. North American/NTSC (24 frames per second) versions. 87 minutes and 84 minutes are exactly what you'd expect if this is what happened (except the numbers seem to be backward in this case:-).

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[–] DeclanCochran 11 years ago

If she saw it in the cinema and you watched it on DVD there is a certain possibility that in the transfer the frame rates were sped up, resulting in a loss of some time. It happens in the UK a lot, something to do with NTSC/PAL wavelengths, although I'm no expert.

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[–] tomisinthehouse 11 years ago

I was the gum under the desk.

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[–] rogerwaters 10 years ago

I was born a poor black child....

I'm making a note here - HUGE SUCCESS.

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[–] berwynmotors 7 years ago

The "authorities" in these institutions interpret their orders according to their own character flaws much like in the Milgram Experiment of 1961: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x24guhr_the-milgram-experiment_shortfilms. These days these horrific behaviors, discovered by security cams and hidden nanny cams, are happening to the elderly, infirm and mentally disabled in many nursing homes across the country and in private homes via home health care aides.

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