[1] It was presented by American-born Howard Schuman, screenwriter of Rock Follies and Selling Hitler.
[1] Although it never achieved high ratings,[citation needed] Moving Pictures was frequently used to teach film studies.
[1] Interviewed on the set of Pulp Fiction, Quentin Tarantino told John Travolta it was the best show about movies on television.
[3] The series finished in 1996,[1] largely due to the cost of paying for film clips, but excerpts from it have since appeared as supplementary material on the Criterion Collection editions of Chungking Express (1994) and Straw Dogs (1971) include Moving Pictures documentaries on Wong Kar-Wai and Sam Peckinpah respectively.
Other DVD and Blu-ray releases featuring the series include The Night of the Hunter (1955), Blue Velvet (1986) and Short Cuts (1993).