What is a directors cut?
Contracts under the terms of the Hollywood Director’s Guild allow about six weeks for a director to assemble a cut without studio interference. This is fully edited and has a synchronized sound track, however, it is usually not color-corrected nor density-corrected and may not have the final music and effects track. In more recent times due to an expanding video aftermarket, the term director’s cut has acquired a popular meaning that implies a finished final print, different from the theatrical release, that the director has complete artistic control over. [muzzle@cs.uq.oz.au] Bob Morris (morris@sce.carlton.ca) believes the first widespread use of the term was with the 1989 re-release of LAWRENCE OF ARABIA.
