テレビをつけたら、昔見た映画をやっていた。


> テレビをつけたら、昔見た映画をやっていた。

Can someone explain what the やっていた means in this context?

1 - At the time when I turned on the TV, an old movie that I already watched
was playing?

or

2 - At the time when I turned on the TV, an old movie that I already watched I
watched it again?




In this context, やっていた translates as 'was playing' or 'was on (TV)'.

By the way, since 昔 is modifying 見た and not 映画 directly, it is not the movie
that is being described as old, but rather when the action of viewing it
happened. Then again, if it was a long time ago then the movie also has to be
old. But technically speaking, I think this would be better:

> テレビをつけたら、昔見た映画をやっていた。  
>  When I turned on the TV, there was a movie on that I had seen a long time
> ago.

