After the furore over the painting-by-numbers computer gilding of the lilies of the Golden Age of the Hollywood Movie, film directors are up in arms over the process – using equipment from the likes of Unlisted Securities Market counter Lexicon Inc, Waltham, Massachusetts, whereby TV stations can put films through a compressor that undetectably reduces their length by up to 15% by eliminating redundant elements of sound: that may be the case with American movies, but we can’t see the technique catching on in West Germany – if German TV were to apply it to the films of Rainer Wernher Fassbinder, it would find most of them were compressed to a running time of about 10 minutes.
