Anybody else watching Gandhi while on the Board? The 188-minute movie, Gandhi, was just interrupted at 6:30 p.m. for 25 minutesafter 1h55m by a wrap up message by Ben Mankiewitz, then promos, previews, and drek about letterbox formats by Sid Pollack, and an intro by John Lithgow to the Swiss Family Robinson, scheduled to start at 8 p.m. after Gandhi. At the end of the SFR intro, the** Gandhi **film continued. They already had the official “Intermssion” earlier. What’s with that? Someone asleep at the switch?
You’re not crazy. I saw it, too. Watched for awhile going, huh? Then figured, oh well, I guess they’re done with Gandhi, a ta-da! it came back.
The film went on strike against the oppressive network. It was Celluloid Disobediance.
Like every other job, television channels have become mostly automated. Playback of programs, commercials and promos are from servers and the playback list was created hours or even days before - and someone made an error in data entry. And the person who used to have responsibility for making sure what was going out on air matched what was planned now has to do that job for several channels at the same time.
Saw it. There was an “intermission” note flashed for a minute or so before this.
Maybe they figured people without DVRs need bathroom breaks.
TCM’s programming computers goof up a lot. I’ve missed the endings of a lot of movies that ran well past the scheduled time slot.
E.g., I missed the ending of Deep End (1970) last year and when it re-aired recently finally saw the ending. Completely changed the meaning of the film!
I also missed the last 15+ minutes of The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T once. A crime against humanity.
Saw it as a theater release, there was also an intermission right after the massacre of the demonstrators. They were probably being faithful to the original.
No, I saw the problem on TCM, too. It was well after the intermission.
When I saw Ghandi at the theatre during its original release, the film stopped several times due to technical difficulties. There were several shouts of ‘Kill the projectionist’.
Hopefully none of them became the change the wanted to see in the world.
Sorry, but could you rephrase that in English, or at least American?
It’s a Gandhi quote, with a typo. Gandhi: “You must be the change you wish to see in the world.”
Ok, thanks. Based on a context-less interpretation of the quote, I think they thought the world would be better without that projectionist.
I’m hoping, one of these days, they will show Gandhi and Gandhi II back to back. That would be sweet.
Revenge of the Gandhi!
Gandhi 2: Electric Boogaloo
Gandhi 2: Electric Vindaloo
My local cable system seems to replace the CW feed with that of ION on a regular basis.
I pity you fool
Not a typo. The case, etc. needed to be changed for it to fit.