 As Terry Gilliam (qv) was filming  _Crimson Permanent Assurance, The (1983)_ (qv) with his own crew and  sound stage, he enlarged the project and went way over budget, and  what was supposed to be a 5 minute scene became a short movie  between 20 and 30 minutes long. The group later decided that they  couldnt use the sequence in chronological order as featured in the  script, right after the staff meeting of the Very Big Corporation of  America, because it would make the movie go slower. So they came up  with the idea of using it at the beginning as a special  presentation, and the scene as we see at the proper movie works sort  of an alternative ending for that sequence. Even though they  introduced the sequence as a special presentation, they edited it to  be only 16 minutes long.