Subject: Screener copy of 'Twin Peaks' home video version.
From: sys3844@fergvax.unl.edu (T. Michael Davis)
Date: 1991-07-15, 18:42
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

I'm not really sure if this had been mentioned on here yet (no flames,
please!) since I just got an account again recently.  Lynch & Frost have
done something that (as far as I know) nobody else has dared to do
before.

I work at a large video chain (gee, guess which one 8-/ ) and we get
screener copies of movies a few months before they are released on home
video (not every movie, but some really good ones occasionally.)
Anyhow, you can imagine my estacy when the TP home video came in the
mail a week ago Saturday, and I rushed home to watch it.  There were,
however, two minor oddities about the video.

1) The label which is usually located in the center of the tape covered
the entire top side, covering both windows that one uses to determine
how much tape is left.

2) The tape, when played, was about as exciting as a blank tape...
because it WAS blank tape.

I assumed it to be a defective tape (wishful thinking), but upon viewing
another copy of the same screener, it too was blank...

It was then that I took the time to read what the oversized label that
was covering the hubs, and this is what it said:

"So you think you know who really killed Laura Palmer?

 Think Again.

 Look for an all-new solution to the mystery.  One so
         astonishing we just couldn't reveal it in a screener
 cassette.

'Twin Peaks.'  The exclusive home video edition specially
 created by David Lynch.

 Coming home September 11th."

And THAT is the best promo gimmick I've heard of in years (on the
buyer/dealer level).

-Michael