| Registered: December 10, 2007 | Reputation:  | | Posts: 3,004 |
| | Posted: | | | | For those of you not in the know, Mystery Science Theater 3000 was an American TV show about a guy on his robots who get forced to watch awful movies. They deal with it by mocking them. Sometimes, the movie were not long enough to fill the show's slot, so they would pad out the run-time with a short-subject, generally those Union Pacific films meant to impart useful advice.
The S\show started in 1989 before TV on home video was a thing, so they didn't secure the home video rights to the movies. When it came time to release DVDs, they couldn't get rights for quite a few of them. For these, they took the shorts, combined them and released those.
How should we handle these shorts packages in DVD Profiler? In many collections, some of the shorts are color and some are black and white. Should we consider each short to be a separate feature since they came from different episodes and have different cast lists, etc or should we consider the collection to be a feature since it's all encoded as one title on the DVD? This makes a difference in whether these collections should have their color format listed as black-and-white and color or mixed and what kind of dividers to use in the cast/crew lists. |
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| Registered: June 12, 2007 | | Reputation: |  Posts: 2,665 |
| | Posted: | | | | The fact the shorts were previously riffed individually on specific episodes of MST3K is not relevant. They have been commercially released as an indivisible feature (Shorts: Volume 1, Shorts: Volume 2 and Mr. B's Lost Shorts, etc). Some were released far enough back to have been on VHS.
I'm treating them as features. | | | | Bad movie? You're soaking in it! |
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| Registered: December 10, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 3,004 |
| | Posted: | | | | The vote is very close here. Can we have some discussion to hopefully help with a consensus? |
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