Talk:Hardware Wars

Distribution etc
Back in 1977, how was this film distributed? Was it shown in cinemas, or was it an early video-only release? How did people get to see it? I also wonder what kind of certification it received from the powers that be, assuming that it did; there is a brief glimpse of full-frontal nudity during the "Rebel pilot briefing scene". -Ashley Pomeroy 11:08, 21 April 2007 (UTC)

I saw this film as a lead-in to the motion picture Allegro non troppo in a movie theater. --Dsdesc (talk) 19:17, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

I have memories of seeing it on television in the Nineteen-Eighties. If I remember correctly, it was on a show hosted by Dick Clark. (Perhaps one of his blooper shows.) I later saw it in Sydney, Australia at a showing of short films curated by a film collector. I found out the version I saw on television was quite edited. Eligius (talk) 06:40, 11 April 2011 (UTC)

It was shown on film at various SF conventions. Our local convention was trying track down a copy when one of the committee members discovered it could be taken out from the library! (Before most people had video tape players, libraries loaned out films, as well as books and phonograph records.) She took it out, rented a movie projector, and we watched it in her living room. That was around 1978. As an amateur short, it would not have had any "certification", in the same way as some professional full length films (often referred to as "art films"), pornographic films (also referred to, somewhat dubiously, as "art films"), or any film that would not be expected to be shown in a mainstream movie theater.--EoinRiedy (talk) 02:51, 13 December 2012 (UTC)

Release date
This article is being used as an example of incorrect info by the Google Operating System blog: http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2013/06/google-no-longer-mentions-data-sources.html

So, when exactly was Hardware Wars released? IMDb and the infobox say 1978. The opening paragraph calls it "a 1977 film", then says it was released "seven months after Star Wars," which would be late December 1977 or early January 1978.

Normally, a film is said to be from the year it publicly premiered. It is normal for films to be shot and even completed months in advance of release, but it is the release date that determines the year of the film. If the gap is extraordinarily long (like, years) then there's usually some explanation. For something like this one, it's not an extraordinary situation, so I see no reason to call it a 1977 film unless it debuted in 1977.

Please provide a more specific release date, cite a source, and adjust the 1977 accordingly. Thanks. —mjb (talk) 11:28, 20 June 2013 (UTC)


 * My DVD copy says (c)1978 in the credits, so absent some evidence of a 1977 premier or release I think we should say it's a 1978 film. I'll make the change and remove the CN tag. Mr. Swordfish (talk) 12:48, 5 July 2013 (UTC)

New source!
Huffpo has a major article about how Hardware Wars came to be made. DS (talk) 23:28, 15 February 2018 (UTC)

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