REGISTER OF CLASSIFICATION DECISIONS Date of entry in Register: 17 January 2001 Name of applicant/court: The Film and Video Labelling Body Inc. Applicant to the Labelling Body: DVD World Ltd Title of Publication: The Art Of War Other Known Titles: Not Stated Director: Christian Duguay Producer: Nicolas Clermont Publisher: Not Applicable Author: Not Applicable Format: DVD Country of Origin: USA Language: English                                      Components of film originally examined: Menu: Play Movie Running time: Scene Selections Special Features Languages Feature: The Art Of War 117.13 Othe Moving Components: Warner Home Video/Morgan Creek/Franchise Pictures Notice 0.44 Copyright Warning Notice 0.31 Theatrical Trailer 2.24 Battlefield Earth 0.56 Chill Factor 2.20 The In Crowd (Trailer #2) 1.56 Robin Hood: Prince Of Thieves 2.01 The Whole Nine Yards 2.24 Young Guns II 1.58 Total Running time: 132.27 Excision/Alteration: Not Applicable. … Please turn over tmp264F Reason(s) for Excision: Not Applicable. Classification Decision: Objectionable except if the availability of the publication is restricted to persons who have attained the age of 18 years. Display Conditions: Nil. Descriptive Note: Contains violence.                                      Direction to issue a label has been given on: 16 January 2001                                      SUMMARY OF THE REASONS FOR DECISION: The DVD entitled The Art Of War is classified as: Objectionable except if the availability of the publication is restricted to persons who have attained the age of 18 years. This classification is primarily due to the manner in which the publication deals with matters of violence and cruelty. The publication is a version of a 35 mm film previously classified by the Classification Office. The film entitled The Art Of War (publication reference no. 1436) was classified as objectionable except if the availability of the publication is restricted to persons who have attained the age of 18 years. This classification decision was registered on 15 September 2000. The version of the feature on the DVD has been verified as being substantially the same as the film version. There is a difference of 1min 17 sec in the running times, with the original feature running for 118 min 30 sec, and the DVD version running for 117 min 13 sec. The reason for this discrepancy is not immediately apparent, but is likely to be due to the different playing characteristics of the two media. tmp264F Along with the feature, the DVD contains two notices and a number of additional components. The extra components are accessed through a main menu screen which offers: Play Movie, Scene Selections, Special Features and Languages. These extra components do not contain any material that would alter the classification given to the original film version of The Art Of War. OFLC Ref: 100013 tmp264F