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On 24 October 2023, it was proposed that this article be moved to Movie trailer. The result of the discussion was not moved.

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Confusing part in the introdution[edit]

In the first paragraph of the article there is a mention about the un-rewound film reels: "the theater about to show the film first had to rewind it, as early experience showed the danger of expecting an incoming film to have been rewound" So, what is so "dangerous" in expecting incoming film to be rewound? Placing it into the projector without checking? If so, I believe there would be clearer ways of saying it. Or is there some meaning I'm not getting at all?

Tohtorizorro (talk) 05:27, 22 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

This is poorly worded. The concern is that there would be tears or other damage that would cause the film to break or catch in the gate during playback, which was a fire hazard in the nitrate era. Films were always rewound from the tail (end of the reel) to the head (beginning of the reel) and inspected during that process. Cement splicers were designed to be used to repair film when rewinding a tails-out reel, so even if a projectionist received a reel heads-out (the orientation in which it would play), they would rewind so that it was tails-out it before inspecting it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:44:100:B910:BC27:D627:3A02:B234 (talk) 02:25, 6 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I arrived at this article hoping to see if trailers are called such for originally showing after the feature. The intro answered it, but I don't think the reversed order the information was provided was meant to artistically echo the un-rewound film reels. 67.128.115.194 (talk) 21:53, 9 August 2020 (UTC)Passerby[reply]

Is any of this actually true though.There seem to be a lot of "citation needed" tags, and i can't find any evidence that film is typically provided "tails up". The idea of splicing trailers to the film reel also seems unlikely. A single reel is not that long in terms of play-time. Movies come on multiple reels. It would make sense to have a single reel for trailers. This whole section come across as folklore rather than actual fact Luckykaa (talk) 08:38, 18 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move 24 October 2023[edit]

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: not moved. (closed by non-admin page mover) - 🔥𝑰𝒍𝒍𝒖𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝑭𝒍𝒂𝒎𝒆 (𝒕𝒂𝒍𝒌)🔥 10:50, 31 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Trailer (promotion) → Movie trailer – Per WP:NATURALDISAMBIGUATION. Rreagan007 (talk) 06:58, 24 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose. We generally use the word "film" on Wikipedia, not "movie", which is an Americanism not generally used in other countries. -- Necrothesp (talk) 13:52, 24 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

According to the British Google Ngrams, "movie trailer" is more common in British English sources that "film trailer". And we have articles titled Movie star, Movie camera, and Movie projector. Rreagan007 (talk) 18:16, 25 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

As is sadly all too common with Ngrams, this doesn't at all reflect actual British usage. According to Ngrams, for instance, we also commonly use "gas station", whereas it's not actually a term any British person would commonly use. Ngrams are not especially reliable. -- Necrothesp (talk) 10:47, 26 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose Trailers can apply to non-films as well. InfiniteNexus (talk) 23:26, 30 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

crosswalks 36.37.142.5 (talk) 16:22, 11 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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