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Item #: SCP-XXXX

Object Class: Safe

Special Containment Procedures: The Bluebird Theater has been purchased by the Foundation and staffed with personnel. No non-foundation personnel are allowed to enter SCP-XXXX; if questioned, ticketholders are to be told that it is used for maintenance purposes.

All footage produced by SCP-XXXX is to be recorded; names of actors and release dates indicated are to be noted. At least one Foundation member with level 3 security clearance or higher is to be present during all tests.

Description: SCP-XXXX is a projection booth and corresponding screen (deemed “theater B”) located in the Bluebird Theater in █████, Wyoming. When a series of movie trailers or other previews are projected within SCP-XXXX, no anomalous properties are shown. However, when this is followed by projecting a movie, another trailer, otherwise not attached to the reel, will precede it. Exhibiting a movie without first playing previews causes no anomalous results.

Trailers produced by SCP-XXXX are for non-existent films, typically in the same genre as the movie projected. These trailers for the most part resemble normal trailers: a series of short scenes, often set to music and accompanied by text or voiceover, which quickly set up the location, characters, and premise of a film. The trailer concludes with roll call of the cast, a title, and a release date that is two to four months from the date viewed. Unlike normal trailers, however, no companies, producers, or directors are mentioned throughout. Furthermore, if any characters are named in the trailer, this will be the same name as the actor supposedly portraying them.

SCP-XXXX came to the attention of Foundation agents after a series of posts on the Bluebird Theater’s ████████ page on 5/7/2013:

Foundation agents were sent to investigate possible memory-affecting or memetic anomalies, posing as representatives from the distributors.

Further agents were sent to view movies at the theater. During this investigation, a second trailer for a non-existent was discovered (Toronto Sky, allegedly a film about a man’s relationship with his terminally ill father, starring George ████████ and Benjamin ████████1, with a release date of August 20) playing before What Maisie Knew in theater B. The Bluebird Theater was purchased by the Foundation on 5/11/2013 and temporarily closed to the public; posts mentioned Texas Hold-em-up were expunged from the Bluebird Theater’s ████████ page, and amnestics were administered to all those who posted and all Theater employees.

Testing showed that these anomalous trailers would only appear in Theater B (SCP-XXXX) and only when a series of regular trailers were played before the feature film. The theater was reopened to the public on 5/17/2013, though SCP-XXXX remained closed for testing.

Research into the actors listed in the trailers found few names corresponding to any people working in the film industry; furthermore, persons that were found did not resemble the person depicted in the trailer. It was initially hypothesized that SCP-XXXX either pulled these trailers from another reality or else wholly fabricated them.

On August 12, the keywords Robert █████████, Miguel █████████, and Jackson ███████████ appeared in a news story for robbing the ███ ████████ Bank in ███ ██████, Texas; details of the robbery displayed a resemblance to scenes described in trailer for Texas Hold-em-up. A new hypothesis, that SCP-XXXX created trailers from future events, was proposed. This hypothesis was supported by the discovery of a death certificate issued for George ████████ of Toronto, Canada, for 8/20/2013, survived by his son, Benjamin; photos obtained match the actors in Toronto Sky that bear their names.

Due to the fractured nature of SCP-XXXX’s footage, as well as lack of recording equipment for most of the events depicted, it has proven difficult to determine how accurately SCP-XXXX’s trailer predict real events, particularly in matters like dialogue. However, no major deviations have been found.