For the diameter of the platter, you could get probably three hours (I'm estimating, it's been a while) worth of film to fit safely.
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But at the theater I worked at, and all the other theaters I have been to, we would build all the reels together onto one large platter so that no switching over was required and a movie could play continuously. On older projectors, changing reels could happen as you describe. I worked with films (literal film) as that format was dying out to give way to digital. So, from the start he worked on one part of the story at a time. Lucas knew that the story, as he envisioned it, was too long to tell in one film. However each episode was part of a larger, complete story. The reason that all those mini-series from the 70's and 80's like 'Roots' and Lonesome Dove' were so popular is that each section was written in an episodic fashion which had a beginning and an end. You need to plan for a film to be presented in two or more parts from the beginning and pace the plot and structure of the story accordingly. Besides, where do you cut it and still preserve the continuity of the story if it wasn't meant to be cut in half?
The producer should have had an inkling of the film's length as soon as the script was written. It's simply unwise to simply split a story in two after production is completed just because it's too long. And, diminished box office returns on the second half might hurt the film's reputation overall and could lead to people skipping the first one as well. Those who aren't totally captivated by the story would simply skip the second one. Splitting the movie into two could be risky.
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