Short Stuff: In-Flight Entertainment

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Hey and welcome to the short stuff. I'm Josh and there's Chuck and Jerry's here sitting in for Dave. And this is short stuff about in-flight movies. All the great stuff that you can watch when you fly with your favorite airline.

Yeah, and this is something that if you've been flying for a number of years, has changed quite a bit. Yeah. I do remember the old days where I didn't fly a lot growing up at all.

“Like I think I've been feeling one time before I went to college.”

And then not even a lot after that, because I was always broke.

But I did go on a couple of flights back in the day where they had the one movie being shown for the entire plane. And there were these big, huge Volkswagen Beetle size monitors that drop down from the ceiling like every 10 rows right in the middle. And maybe 30% of the flight could get a good angle on that screen.

Yeah. And if you were lucky, you were close to that one big screen version that was like broadcast or shown on like the wall. Oh, yeah, yeah. In the middle rows.

Yeah, that was how we used to watch movies. Everyone watched the same movie at the same time. You plugged in your headphones. That were like hydraulics if I remember correctly. Yeah, air travel episode.

Just through a tube. Yeah. And you watch that same movie. And because there's all sorts of different people with all sorts of different tastes, the movie you saw was radically different from the movie that you would find on like your video

store. Yes. For sure. One movie, whole plane.

We will tell you the very first in flight movie.

Believe it or not, it was in 1929. It was a news reel in a couple of cartoons on a trans, continental air, transport flight. But real deal movie service started in the early 60s. This comes from variety and CNN and house stuff works. But nowadays, it's a whole different deal because we have broadband connections.

We have servers on board. Everyone knows now you can stream like over 100 movies probably. Even a couple of decades ago, you probably just had 10 or 15 movies you could watch. Because they were just stored on a hard drive, I guess. Right. But now they have all kinds of movies.

You can play games against passengers. You can read e-books, listen to podcasts or music or whatever. Right there, either on the seatback screen or on your laptop or tablet or whatever. Yeah, it is quite a time to be alive for that. But I guess the whole problem, the whole issue that faced airlines back in the day,

which was how can you show a movie to a bunch of different people, is still around in different forms? Yeah, for sure. I mean, it costs a ton of money.

Apparently, some airlines spend like $20 million per year just on like licensing and content.

Then you got to outfit the planes that can cost about $5 million per aircraft. And it makes a lot heavier. So there was a guy, an icon professor in Norway that basically calculated all the weight and everything and said, if airlines got rid of this stuff, they can save about $3 million per year per aircraft by not having this on board.

Right. Which, I mean, they're like, "Well, so what? We make so much more than that." Yeah, but they'd pass along the savings to us, I'm sure.

“For sure. Yeah, of course. Apparently, depending on where you are, I think in the United States,”

you pay something like 90 grand for one movie for a couple of months, and then other, yeah, for license, and then other licenses are by a per view. So every time somebody watches a movie, you have to pay a certain amount, probably not 90 grand. But still, there's all sorts of different

all the movies you want. So feel bad for the airlines. Yeah, I don't know if this for everybody,

“but I even call them airplane movies. It's sort of like a hotel movie. It's a movie that I”

normally, like I probably wouldn't pay for or go see an a theater, but I will totally get like had enough interest to watch it. I will do that on airplanes almost a hundred percent of the time. I won't watch either that or like an old favorite, but I watched F1 that Brad Pitt Formula One movie on this last flight recently, and it was okay. That was an airplane movie. Too much minimalist, like office stuff for me. Oh, yeah, yeah. I mean, it was lousy with that.

I saw some, I was watching it over somebody's shoulder. Yeah, yeah, there was a lot of that. I mean, the racing stuff was really, really great. I'm sure, obviously, much better on a big screen, but it was one of those where like, not most, but a lot of people don't understand Formula One racing, so the entire time, like the race commentary was so explanatory. And now he has to go do this because that means this because the rules say this and it's just

incessant. And it helped you understand it, but it was really pretty, pretty bad, like inception. And that respect. Yeah, like inception. Let's take a little break and we'll come back and we'll talk about some of the stuff that airlines have to do to make sure that no one gets offended by the movies. All right, we'll be right back. What if mind control is real? If you can control the behavior of anybody around you, what kind of

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Alright, so you were saying airplane movies are one that you would normally never pay to see.

I get that. There's also airline versions of movies. Yeah. And they come in a bunch of different ways. Sometimes the airlines like commission companies to edit the movies that they're going to show. Other times the studios themselves will make an airline cut where they edit out, you know, the the sexiest stuff, or the most violent or gory stuff, or like jokes. Like you probably couldn't show any of the Austin Powers movies because of all the mean stuff about different cultures.

“They figure out how to edit that out in the best way possible so that it doesn't screw up the plot,”

which was not what they were doing before when they showed the same movie to everybody at the same time. It was just really clumsy editing then. Yeah, for sure. It's kind of funny. Some of the things I'll edit out. Apparently they'll edit out their airline logos, which I didn't know, which is

hysterical. Not so hysterical. You're never going to see a movie about a terrorist or certainly like a

hijacking or a plane crash or anything. You're not going to see that Denzel Washington movie.

But depending on where you are in the world too, there's different cultures that are going to

“find different things offensive. And you've got to be aware of that. So like in Europe, they're”

way more okay with like a little bit of nudity, maybe a little bit more sexy stuff, but they're not as much as into the Goron violence. The Middle East, apparently any kind of bear skin or sexy stuff you can't have, but they have a little higher tolerance for violent scenes on their flights. Right. Airlines that carry a lot of Muslim passengers will frequently have like any references to pig or pork or anything like that edited out. Yeah. Singapore apparently is

sensitive to scenes or movies with LGBTQ+ content, which means they can't get enough of it, is what I'm reading. I don't think that's the case. And language you would think like, well, they got to edit that out, but that's not the case anymore. It doesn't seem to have been the case ever since they started showing on demand individually selected movies because you listen to them through headphones generally. Yeah, through headphones. And also they have the little

sort of caveat now where you have they tell you beforehand this contains scenes of

“you know, violence or whatever brief nudity. And you have to tell whether or not you want to proceed.”

Beforehand. And you know, I think because I was, I'm still a bit of a prude. I was raised

baptist. So I'm always very sensitive to other people's experience around me. Like, I would never

be the guy. This just watching some awful like thing on their screen with people all around. I'm just totally clueless that like kids are around or other people that might be offended. So I've always been sensitive to that. But there are there's an actual trade group, the airline passenger experience association. Because there are no laws about this. They, they will offer guidance, I guess, to movie distributors and to airlines and stuff like that. There have been some sort of,

I don't know about famous, but like at least gone viral online for like how could they edit that out? I know when the film Carol came out in 2015, which is about a lesbian couple in the 1950s, Delta got a lot of guff because they edited out scenes of like women kissing. And so Delta was like, hey, that's not us. Like, that's the movie they gave us. But apparently there is a guy who runs a company that how stuff works talk to a mere some nonty. He's vice president of content services for global

eagle, which is like the big, the big company that edit films for airlines. He had said, and he wasn't saying this to, to contradict Delta. But he said like airlines actually have a lot of saying in, in what gets edited out. So it seems like Delta was like, no, we can't show lesbian stuff whereas American Airlines and United are like, they're all like they're like Singapore. They're like bringing it on. Right. Yeah, there was in 2007 that was a co-sponsored bill called the

Family Friendly Flies Act where he wanted to have child-safe viewing areas on the planes where anything

“over G couldn't be played. But I think it never passed. And I'm sure it didn't pass because that's”

a near-impossibility or just a terrible idea to be like, we'll put all the kids in the back of the plane together. Right. Without their parents. I was looking at this and there was congresspeople congressman from North Carolina and it does especially today sound just preposterous. But in their defense, this was 2007 and this was a time when planes still mostly showed the same movie to the entire airplane in the same time. Well, that makes sense. A little bit. Right. It did. It did to me too. And I was

reading like a basically an article on it from the time and they were like, well, one of the

problems is like, you don't want to just show only G-rated movies because everybody on the airplane is going to hate kids even more than they already do. That was a quote from it. So they landed on if this did happen to just show PG-13 as a compromise. Yeah. All right. Well, that makes sense. Yeah. And if you're wondering how much gets edited out, someone actually did check running times of movies shown on Virgin Air and Air Canada. They had funding. That's right. Which will be flying

soon. When we do our Canadian tour, we got some air Canada flights book. Can't wait. You got that. That's right. And they found that two thirds of the movies shown on these two airlines were the same length as the theater presentation. 14% were shorter, not 14% shorter, but 14% of the movies overall. So that like, that just sort of tells you how many movies are being edited down for content. 21% were longer, which is sort of interesting. Yeah. I would guess Virgin is not huge on

editing down movies, but you never know. You never know. So yeah, Chuck said you never know. I guess

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