Controlling Playback Programatically

Folks,
Does anybody know if there is there a way to control playback of a QuickTime movie programatically?
If so what is that way?
My goal is to have a presented QuickTime movie stop, and wait for user restart, at several specific times over the course of the movie.
Thanks in advance.
Dual G5 2.5 Mac OS X (10.4.2)

Try AppleScript via Script Editor (in /Applications/AppleScript )
Launch Script Editor (Is it just me or is Apple having trouble deciding whether two words should be two words or oneword? )
Pull down the file menu to "Open Dictionary"
Scroll down to QuickTime Player
Click the black triangle next to "QuickTime Player Suite"
Click the black triangle next to "Commands"
See Play and Pause ? From AppleScript you could open the movie, send the play command, wait a given number of seconds, send the pause command etc.
Or you could use the "Select" command to set start and end points in the movie and then send the keystroke to "Play selection only" (command-T) and play that selection. Then later, select the next section, play it etc.

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