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* ''Film/TheTenCommandments''

* ''Film/BenHur''

* In the WesternAnimation/BugsBunny cartoon "Hare Do," Bugs uses the INTERMISSION/CURTAIN sign to have the patrons run back and forth across Elmer Fudd, who is the theater worker. Cut from most transmissions (for obvious reasons), during the first time the crowd is in the lobby, they smoke up a blue cloud of cigarette smoke.

* The films of ''Theatre/HelloDolly'', ''Theatre/SweetCharity'' and ''Theatre/FiddlerOnTheRoof'' had intermissions at the same point as their stage versions.

* The original roadshow version of ''Disney/{{Fantasia}}''. Later versions re-edited the footage of the orchestra leaving for intermission and then returning for the opening and closing of the film. The DVD version restored the original intermission footage.

* When ''Disney/TheRescuersDownUnder'' was released to theaters, it was preceded by the animated featurette ''Disney/ThePrinceAndThePauper''. In between both films was a 10-minute intermission introduced by Mickey and the Prince with a countdown clock placed below the credits. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Jv7BM509xc See it here.]]

* In ''Discworld/WyrdSisters'', a group of witches cast a spell that fast-forwards the kingdom fifteen years so that the MosesInTheBulrushes hero will be grown up before TheUsurper can do too much damage. In the official stage adaptation, the intermission occurs at the moment the spell kicks in; when the intermission ends, everything and everyone on the stage is in the same position as at the start of intermission, but fifteen years have passed.

** Oddly said intermission (at about 2 hours and 40 minutes in) is also on ''the DVD'', but cut down to a couple seconds.

* When the full version of ''Film/OnceUponATimeInAmerica'' (which runs 3 hrs 49 min) was shown on Creator/TheABC (ABC is Australia's public broadcaster and doesn't have commercial breaks), they included an intermission.

* ''Film/TheGreatRace'' (2 minutes long, with music)

* ''Film/TheGodfather'' was going to have one taking place before the newspaper headline montage which is why there was one in the first place, to get audiences back into the story.

* In the 70s and 80s, the CBC used title cards showing a single word ("interlude") to signal one. Complete with smash.

* ''Film/MyFairLady''

* ''Theatre/MyFairLady''

* ''Theatre/{{Grease}}'' has a song entitled "All Alone at the Drive-In Movie" (cut from the film version in favor of "Sandy"), with lyrics that specifically mention the ads commonly shown at drive-ins for the concession stand and the countdown clock warning people the next movie was about to start (or reassuring them that yes, they ''did'' have time to pick up a Chilly Dilly).

** The film version switched the musical numbers "Officer Krupke" and "Cool" to avoid a fairly lighthearted song closely following [[spoiler: Riff's death]] (which occurs very near the end of the first act in the stage version). Similarly, "I Feel Pretty" was shifted to an earlier spot in the film (necessitating a [[GayOldTime possibly unfortunate]] change in the lyrics) for similar reasons.

-->"Perhaps a carbonated soda?"
-->"My nipples look like Milk Duds!"

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* ''TheKingAndI'' had an intermission added in for its 1961 re-release and 1999 DVD.

* Premium cable TV channels such as HBO or Showtime have occasionally done this for longer films such as Theatre/{{Oklahoma}}, TheRightStuff, and Film/{{Amadeus}}.

** The same with ''StrangeBrew''.

* Music/PDQBach's "half-act opera" ''The Stoned Guest'' may have originally lacked an intermission, but at least its recorded version has an intermission take place [[OverlyLongNote while the singers hold a penultimate note]].

* In-cinematic universe example: in ''Film/Grease'', where Danny is alone at the drive-in theater singing "Sandy", classic intermission animations are running on the movie screen in the background. They include advertising for the refreshment stand (complete with "dancing" snacks) and a countdown clock to showtime.

This trope exists in sports as well. American football and basketball have halftime. In American baseball, an intermission takes place in the middle of the seventh inning, and is referred to as the "seventh inning stretch". NationalHockeyLeague games usually have two intermissions of about 18 minutes each.

* When the full version of ''Film/OnceUponATimeInAmerica'' (which runs 3 hrs 49 min) was shown on TheABC (ABC is Australia's public broadcaster and doesn't have commercial breaks), they included an intermission.

* [[TheSeventies 1970s]] [[Creator/TheBBC BBC]] Radio sketch show ''Radio/TheBurkissWay'' had a "brief intermission" in each show (always preceded by "''[[TheElevatorFromIpanema Theme from A Summer Place]]''"), generally consisting of sketches that had a separate theme from the rest of the show. On one occasion the Intermission took up about 90% of the episode.