" Time magazine provided some details to help illustrate just how much of a spectacle it was: " Inevitably, the picture is colossal — it runs three hours and 15 minutes ( including intermission ), cost $ 6, 200, 000, employs an extra-wide widescreen, a special color process, 7, 000 extras, 10, 000 costumes, 35 ships, 50 outsize engines of medieval war, and four of the noblest old castles in Spain: Ampudia, Belmonte, Peñíscola and Torrelobaton.

RKO balked at the idea of distributing Fantasia, which it described as a " longhair musical ", and believed its duration of two hours and five minutes plus intermission was too long for a general release.

* The original, 1969 European release is 145 minutes long, with an intermission ( per distributor's request, before the train robbery ).

The first preview on 11 April 1988 ran 4 hours with an unexpected 90 minute intermission ( the stage crew reportedly had problems with the sets ); by opening night on 28 April, it was down to 3 hours 15 minutes.

It comprises a four-disc box set with a runtime of 194 minutes, and is shown as a road show presentation with an overture, intermission and entr ' acte ; the Blu-ray Disc release omits the roadshow elements, running for 189 minutes.

A game consisted of four 15-minute quarters with a halftime intermission 20 minutes in length.

The Alamo premiered at its 70mm roadshow length of 202 minutes, including overture, intermission, and exit music, but was severely cut for wide release.

( 1955 ), the Olivier Richard III ( 1955 ), the travelogue Cinerama Holiday ( 1955 ), Helen of Troy ( 1956 ), the Audrey Hepburn-Henry Fonda War and Peace ( 1956 ), the all-star Around the World in 80 Days ( 1956 ), the Technicolor Ten Commandments ( 1956 ), the Cinerama documentary Seven Wonders of the World ( 1956 ), Giant ( 1956 ), The Bridge on the River Kwai ( 1957 ), Raintree County ( 1957 ), the Cinerama Search for Paradise ( 1957 ), the Cinemiracle documentary Windjammer ( 1958 ), South Pacific ( 1958 ), the Cinerama travelogue South Seas Adventure ( 1958 ), The Big Country ( 1958 ), the Sidney Poitier-Dorothy Dandridge Porgy and Bess ( 1959 ), The Diary of Anne Frank ( 1959 ), Ben-Hur ( 1959 ) with Charlton Heston, Disney's Sleeping Beauty ( 1959 ) ( an animated feature only seventy-five minutes long with no intermission ), John Wayne's The Alamo ( 1960 ), Spartacus ( 1960 ), Exodus ( 1960 ), Can-Can ( 1960 ), Scent of Mystery ( 1961 ), El Cid ( 1961 ), King of Kings ( 1961 ), The Guns of Navarone ( 1961 ), ( shown only occasionally in roadshow format despite its length of more than two-and-a-half hours ), Lawrence of Arabia ( 1962 ), the Marlon Brando Mutiny on the Bounty ( 1962 ), The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm ( 1962 ), How the West Was Won ( 1962 ), The Longest Day ( 1962 ), It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World ( 1963 ), The Cardinal ( 1963 ), Cleopatra ( 1963 ), the Richard Burton Hamlet ( 1964 ), My Fair Lady ( 1964 ), The Fall of the Roman Empire ( 1964 ), The Sound of Music ( 1965 ), The Greatest Story Ever Told ( 1965 ), the Olivier Othello ( 1965 ), Doctor Zhivago ( 1965 ), The Great Race ( 1965 ), Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines ( 1965 ), The Agony and the Ecstasy ( 1965 ), Battle of the Bulge ( 1965 ), Khartoum ( 1966 ), Cinerama's Russian Adventure ( 1966 ), Hawaii ( 1966 ), The Blue Max ( 1966 ), Grand Prix ( 1966 ), Half a Sixpence ( 1967 ), Camelot ( 1967 ), The Happiest Millionaire ( 1967 ), Ice Station Zebra ( 1968 ), The Lion in Winter ( 1968 ), Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey ( 1968 ), Oliver!

Frequently, unless the film was exceptionally long, the intermission, along with the overture, ent ' racte music, and exit music would be eliminated when it went into general release, in order to save twenty minutes and possibly squeeze in more showings, and the film would be shown just like any other motion picture.

More recently, Robert Redford's 1998 The Horse Whisperer, although 170 minutes long, was not shown with an intermission nor in a road show format.

On the other hand, James Cameron's spectacularly successful Titanic ( 1997 ) was just as lengthy as The Right Stuff ( three hours and fifteen minutes ), but was not shown in a roadshow format or with an intermission.

The film as originally released ran 189 minutes ( including overture, intermission, entr ' acte, and exit music ).

The game is composed of three 20-minute periods with an intermission of 12½ minutes between periods.

During competition, the snatch event takes place first, followed by a short intermission, and then the clean and jerk event.

According to Fouquet, the director's tasks included overseeing the erecting of a stage and scenery ( there were no permanent, purpose-built theatre structures at this time, and performances of vernacular drama mostly took place in the open air ), casting and directing the actors ( which included fining them for those that infringed rules ), and addressing the audience at the beginning of each performance and after each intermission.

Backstage negotiations took place during an intermission.

After the first three contestants read their highlights, an intermission took place, in which a new game called " Get Off the Fence " was introduced.

During a backstage interview in the first intermission, Sellars referred to the fall of President Hosni Mubarak which took place in Cairo on the previous day, comparing it to the momentous time when Richard Nixon first met with Mao Tse-Tung in Peking ( as Beijing was then known in the West ) opening diplomatic and trade relations between the United States and the People's Republic of China.

Bizzocchi's " Rockface " was used as the intermission piece during the aforementioned audiovisual evening in place of traditional intermission background music thereby playing with the conventional structure of the ambient paradigm.

( There is no intermission between Acts 2 and 3 – the action continues without interruption as the Humming Chorus ends and morning light appears.

The Japanese were aggressive, continuing their attacks for three hours without intermission, and as a result during the night there were a number of collisions between the small craft and Russian warships.

The reformed Alice in Chains ( with DuVall ), which are known to have an intermission to include a five-minute filmed tribute in between sets to Staley, generated enough enthusiasm from fans, including Staley's mother according to DuVall, to convince the band to keep the name.

There are two movements for each of the movies, and an intermission between the second and third ( or first and second, in some cases ) movements.

An intermission ( American English ) or interval ( British English ) is a recess between parts of a performance or production, such as for a theatrical play, opera, concert, or film screening.

It should not be confused with an entr ' acte ( French: " between acts "), which, in the 18th century, was a sung, danced, spoken, or musical performance that occurs between any two acts, that is unrelated to the main performance, and that thus in the world of opera and musical theatre became an orchestral performance that spans an intermission and leads, without a break, into the next act.

When Les Amours de la reine Élisabeth ( Queen Elizabeth ), starring Sarah Bernhardt, opened on July 12, 1912, in the Lyceum Theatre in New York City, the four reel film was shown in four acts, with an intermission between each reel change.

It can mean a pause between two parts of a stage production, synonymous to an intermission, but it more often indicates a piece of music performed between acts of a theatrical production.

In films that were meant to be shown with an intermission, there was frequently a specially recorded entr ' acte on the soundtrack between the first and second half of the film, although this practice has died out in recent years.

The first game to feature an intermission between gameplay was the 1979 shoot ' em up title Space Invaders Part II ( also called Space Invaders Deluxe ), where at the end of each level, the last invader flies off on a spaceship that broadcasts an SOS message.

MSTie fics imitate the style of the Mystery Science Theater 3000 programs: the commentators are usually three in number ( sometimes they are MST3K characters ), the fic opens with an introductory dialogue or situation which continues as a mini-plot during several " intermission " sequences ( between blocks of the riffed fanfic ), and comes to a conclusion at the end.

Recently, between intermission, Boomerang would air a bumper, then two ads ; one would be a Dish or DirecTV ad, depending on the provider, and the other ad would be a commercial.

Also, after completing a stage, during the intermission screen between waves, the music played is the same as the screen after Mac loses a match.

Ice hockey games consist of three periods, so there are in effect two halftimes at a hockey game: the first intermission is between the first and second periods, and the second intermission comes between the second and third periods.

He wrote a regular column for over 30 years between 27 July 1935 and 1 February 1967 with a short intermission for World War II, his column restarting after the war with the words " As I was saying before I was so rudely interrupted, it is a powerful hard thing to please all of the people all of the time.

Communication design is a mixed discipline between design and information-development which is concerned with how media intermission such as printed, crafted, electronic media or presentations communicate with people.

It developed alongside Noh, was performed along with Noh as an intermission of sorts between Noh acts, on the same Noh stage, and retains close links to Noh in the modern day ; therefore, it is sometimes designated Noh-kyōgen.

During the intermission, Allison confides to Berke that she wants to get back together with him, leaving him with a difficult choice between her and Kelly.

Greetings from members of the audience to friends and family at home ( frequently humorous ) are read each week by Keillor just after the show's intermission at the top of the second hour.

A song called " The Darkness Music " use to be played after nearly every away goal. The Stars had scrapped playing the Pantera fight song ( Puck off, also referred to as the " Dallas Stars Fight Song ") after each intermission and at the beginning and now plays it occasionally.

A total of thirteen roadshows were held across the United States ; each involving two daily screenings with seat reservations booked in advance at higher prices and a fifteen-minute intermission.

In the twelfth century, Bernard of Clairvaux spoke of Comgall and Bangor, stating, “ the solemnization of divine offices was kept up by companies, who relieved each other in succession, so that not for one moment day and night was there an intermission of their devotions .” This continuous singing was antiphonal in nature, based on the call and response reminiscent of Patrick ’ s vision, but also practiced by St. Martin ’ s houses in Gaul.

) At each intermission, his voice also says " We will return for the second half of Days of our Lives in just a moment ".

Films are identified as ' short subjects ,' taking 1 reel or less of film, ' two-reelers ,' required two reels of film ( some of the early Laurel & Hardy, 3 Stooges, and other comedies were two-reelers ), and ' features ' could take any number of reels ( although most are limited to 1-1 / 2 to 2 hours, enabling the theater to have multiple showings throughout the day and evening, each showing with a feature, commercials, and intermission to allow the audiences to change ).

There was usually a series of linked sketches through each episode, the intermission sketches providing a break.

After doing each floor, there is a 90 second intermission for the toons to decide if they want to keep moving on or if they want to leave.

The series has been divided into unofficial " seasons " of hour-long episodes ( each with a short intermission ) featuring the same panels.

A message appears on each of these intermission screen, either congratulating the player's success or warning of some hazard in the next level.

" Babb also made sure that each showing of the film followed a similar format: adults-only screenings segregated by gender, and live lectures by " Fearless Hygiene Commentator Elliot Forbes " during an intermission.