fade-outs

Not everyone's a fan of fade-outs, but a repeated coda can be the catchiest part of the record, and make you want to play it again.

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I think the first show to do away with fade-outs and fade-ins might have been Mission: Impossible, which also did away with dissolves and most other optical effects.

No Fade-Outs Jaime J. Weinman 2008

It's clear that the negatives don't have any fade-outs or fade-ins and instead they just insert breaks where the commercials are supposed to occur, but there's nothing else to get us in and out of commercial breaks.

No Fade-Outs Jaime J. Weinman 2008

I think the first show to do away with fade-outs and fade-ins might have been Mission: Impossible, which also did away with dissolves and most other optical effects.

Archive 2008-03-01 Jaime J. Weinman 2008

I feel the same way about the DVDs of the U.S. version of The Office another show with no fade-outs or fade-ins -- it would be so easy to take out the commercial break spots and I think it's basically laziness on Universal's part that they don't do it.

Archive 2008-03-01 Jaime J. Weinman 2008

I feel the same way about the DVDs of the U.S. version of The Office another show with no fade-outs or fade-ins -- it would be so easy to take out the commercial break spots and I think it's basically laziness on Universal's part that they don't do it.

No Fade-Outs Jaime J. Weinman 2008

It's clear that the negatives don't have any fade-outs or fade-ins and instead they just insert breaks where the commercials are supposed to occur, but there's nothing else to get us in and out of commercial breaks.

Archive 2008-03-01 Jaime J. Weinman 2008

TCM tried to get the complete version, but the distributor, Sony, sent them the short version instead; it has a bunch of awkward and abrupt fade-outs, but it's hard to know whether the cut scenes would cause the picture to make more sense than it does.

Archive 2007-02-01 Jaime J. Weinman 2007

Bachelor Flat is a real Tashlin movie right down to the crazy fade-outs -- here and in Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter, Tashlin always has the screen fade to blue or green or red instead of fading to black.

Archive 2007-10-01 Jaime J. Weinman 2007

TCM tried to get the complete version, but the distributor, Sony, sent them the short version instead; it has a bunch of awkward and abrupt fade-outs, but it's hard to know whether the cut scenes would cause the picture to make more sense than it does.

P-E-P-E Jaime J. Weinman 2007