State Sen. Martin Looney has proposed a bill in the Connecticut legislature that would require movie theaters to publish the actual start times of movies, rather than the time all the commercials and trailers and ads for concessions start.

This hour, a Nose-ish look at, well, that bill and the effects it would have on movie theaters and moviegoing.

Plus: the art and history of movie trailers, themselves.

GUESTS:

Allan Arkush: A contributor to Trailers from Hell; he worked in the trailers department for Roger Corman
Stephen Garrett: Founder of Jump Cut
James Hanley: Co-founder of Cinestudio at Trinity College
Sam Hatch: Co-hosts The Culture Dogs on WWUH
Martin Looney: President pro tempore of the Connecticut Senate and the state senator serving Hamden and New Haven
Shawn Murray: A stand-up comedian, writer, and the host of the Nobody Asked Shawn podcast
Kevin O’Toole: Co-hosts The Culture Dogs on WWUH
Lindsay Lee Wallace: Writes about culture, health care and health equity, and other stuff, too

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Colin McEnroe, Betsy Kaplan, Cat Pastor, and Chion Wolf contributed to this show, parts of which originally aired July 2, 2014, in a different form.

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