diff --git a/web/skins/classic/includes/functions.php b/web/skins/classic/includes/functions.php
index 8f2946b5e..803916162 100644
--- a/web/skins/classic/includes/functions.php
+++ b/web/skins/classic/includes/functions.php
@@ -224,9 +224,23 @@ if ( ZM_OPT_X10 && canView( 'Devices' ) ) { ?>
       <li><a href="?view=montage"<?php echo $view=='montage'?' class="selected"':''?>><?php echo translate('Montage') ?></a></li>
 <?php
    }
+if (isset($_REQUEST['filter']['Query']['terms'])) {
+  $terms = $_REQUEST['filter']['Query']['terms'];
+  $count = 0;
+  foreach ($terms as $term) {
+    if ($term['attr'] == "StartDateTime") {
+      $count += 1;
+      if ($term['op'] == '>=') $minTime = $term['val'];
+      if ($term['op'] == '<=') $maxTime = $term['val'];
+    }
+  }
+  if ($count == 2) {
+    $montageReviewQuery = '&minTime='.$minTime.'&maxTime='.$maxTime;
+  }
+}
   if ( canView('Events') ) {
  ?>
-   <li><a href="?view=montagereview"<?php echo $view=='montagereview'?' class="selected"':''?>><?php echo translate('MontageReview')?></a></li>
+   <li><a href="?view=montagereview<?php echo isset($montageReviewQuery)?'&fit=1'.$montageReviewQuery.'&live=0':'' ?>"<?php echo $view=='montagereview'?' class="selected"':''?>><?php echo translate('MontageReview')?></a></li>
 <?php
   }
 ?>
diff --git a/web/skins/classic/views/montagereview.php b/web/skins/classic/views/montagereview.php
index 720416045..221d0c181 100644
--- a/web/skins/classic/views/montagereview.php
+++ b/web/skins/classic/views/montagereview.php
@@ -59,17 +59,18 @@ include('_monitor_filters.php');
 $filter_bar = ob_get_contents();
 ob_end_clean();
 
-$filter = array(
+if (isset($_REQUEST['minTime']) || isset($_REQUEST['maxTime'])) {
+  $filter = array(
       'Query' => array(
         'terms' => array(
-          array('attr' => 'StartDateTime', 'op' => '>=', 'val' => $_REQUEST[minTime]),
-          array('attr' => 'StartDateTime', 'op' => '<=', 'val' => $_REQUEST[maxTime]),
+          array('attr' => 'StartDateTime', 'op' => '>=', 'val' => $_REQUEST['minTime']),
+          array('attr' => 'StartDateTime', 'op' => '<=', 'val' => $_REQUEST['maxTime']),
         )
       ),
     );
-
-parseFilter( $filter );
-$filterQuery = $filter['query'];
+  parseFilter( $filter );
+  $filterQuery = $filter['query'];
+}
 
 // Note that this finds incomplete events as well, and any frame records written, but still cannot "see" to the end frame
 // if the bulk record has not been written - to be able to include more current frames reduce bulk frame sizes (event size can be large)