TV Commercials • 1998–1999 • FXM Movies from Fox • 60 FPS

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This tape is an unedited off-air recording from FXM Movies from Fox, the 20th Century Fox classic film cable channel. The content consists almost entirely of channel programming material with no external commercial breaks, capturing FXM's interstitial segments, movie introductions, and original short film showcase content.

The recording documents several recurring FXM program formats. FXM Dailies, the channel's weekly entertainment show hosted by Tracy Smith, features a segment covering fans camping in line at the Grauman's Chinese Theatre for the then-upcoming Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace, with one fan noting he will be directing his first feature film at the beginning of 1999, placing the recording in 1998. FXM's Info Nuts segments provide behind-the-scenes facts about classic Fox films before each broadcast, covering All About Eve, Good Morning Miss Dove, Fatso, Golden Girl, and Whirlpool.

FXM Shorts, the channel's original short film showcase, profiles two films: 78, a comedy about a kid jumping on a manhole cover, and Better Late, a tender love story described as a preparation exercise by a director. A segment from FXM's First on Fox series showcases the first pairing of Paul Newman and Robert Redford in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, hosted from the 20th Century Fox studio screening room. The channel's Movietonews Short Subjects strand presents original Fox newsreel and short film archival material including the 1953 announcement of the CinemaScope widescreen process. A recurring educational interstitial explains letterboxing format to viewers, promoting FXM's policy of broadcasting CinemaScope films in their original widescreen aspect ratio.

Feature films promoted or airing include Young Frankenstein, All About Eve, Good Morning Miss Dove, Fatso, Golden Girl, Whirlpool, and an Apache Western featuring Richard Boone, Stuart Whitman, Tony Franciosa, Jim Brown, and Edmund O'Brien. The FXM website is promoted at www.fxnetworks.com.

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Internet Archive, in The VHS Vault

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Credit

The Vista Group®

Language

English

Subtitles

English (automatic)

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