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Robert Crewdson
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posted July 29, 2013 06:11 AM

Has anyone noticed where a trailer used footage different to the feature film. I recently projected a copy of 'Northern Pursuit', starring Errol Flynn. In one scene he is talking to Nazi (Helmut Dantine), and he is shown side view, but in the trailer he is facing the camera. In the trailer of 'The Adventures of Don Juan', in the scene at the end, where Don Juan (Errol Flynn) takes on the Duke de Lorca (Robert Douglas) in a swordfight, we hear him mouth extra words to that which appeared in the film. Was this a common practice?

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Gary Crawford
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posted July 29, 2013 06:16 AM

Just got a trailer for Return of Dr. X.....and almost every scene in that trailer is NOT in the feature itself. Totally different scenes, dialog and camera shots. Trailer must have been made well before the final edited version of the feature.

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Marshall Crist
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posted July 29, 2013 07:24 AM

Some low-budget filmmakers would intentionally use out-takes to build their trailers to save themselves a couple of bucks duplicating those chunks of the negative again. Not saying that is what is happening in the examples cited so far; in fact probably not. First time I noticed alternate takes in a trailer for a proper Hollywood movie was CAREER OPPORTUNITIES, which had some dialogue that did not make it into the final film. From what I've heard, a lot of stuff got cut out of that movie.

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Dominique De Bast
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posted July 29, 2013 09:52 AM

They made a trailer for the tv show Lost (I don't remember for which season). The "monster" showed in the trailer was not appreciated enough by the fans so they reshooted the scence with it for the show.

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Osi Osgood
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posted July 30, 2013 01:23 PM

Another great example of that is in the original, very first trailer for STAR WARS ...

The special effects had not been worked out yet and so, that first shot of the Tie Fighter coming down on the Mellenium Falcon for a strafing run, does not have the in the cockpit version in the movie, it just has us looking down on the Mellenium Falcon with the tie fighter laser blasts doing they're strafing run

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