Is this "TRT - 6:31" flashed for one frame during the credits of "Planet of the Apes" original to any official release of the film?
I saw this "TRT - 6:31" appear during the end credits in a broadcast of Planet of the Apes I had DVRed.
Is this original to any cut of the film? (Otherwise it was presumably added during some transfer step by the broadcasting station or whoever distributed it to them.)
(If you know what it is for, that would be even better, but if you can just verify that it does/doesn't appear in any original releases, that would be a satisfactory answer to my question.)
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It is in fact "Total Run Time" as defined by numerous internet sources. Foreign correspondent Alasdair Baverstock has a direct link to the definition.
In your example of "TRT 6:31", it is specific to the start of the end credits, and is a 'bookmark' for broadcasters to begin 'Picture-in-picture', whether to show station identification, commercial advertisement, or to begin another program.
I did find a downloadable 'PBS Producer's Handbook' that does say in part "...the Producer must hold 30-seconds from the final total running time (TRT) for PBS to insert a promo immediately following the end of the program body...
In your example the cue is at 6:31 and whether a control is manually or digitally activated is at the discretion of the broadcaster. And with the advent of DVR's and frame-by-frame technology the consumer is just beginning to see what normally they wouldn't have.
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