Movie Collector OH
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28 minutes ago, fxreyman said:
I just used the third column, count of unique features. Did I use the right one?
Yes. I just haven't looked at your work yet, my eyes are killing me right now. I'll post back.
P.S. There are just slightly under 10,000 different feature films they have shown in their history (most repeating, some not). So the numbers have to be less than that. Unless I am not following, which is also a likelihood here.
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On 2/28/2021 at 1:08 PM, fxreyman said:
Only one year was an anomaly. 1999. According to MovieCollector’s data, only 600 films were tabulated. Maybe he did not have all the information he needed to get the complete total number of films. I have included the numbers for that year in my calculations.
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On 1/28/2021 at 5:13 PM, Polly of the Precodes said:
- Thank you for compiling this.
- Nothing on the schedule I want to see; maybe I'll dip into that John Ford boxset.
- After the May 2 entries, the April entries repeat.
- Primetime programming for March 31 is still TBA. Any idea what TCM plans to show? (Probably documentaries about the history of the Academy Awards.)
4) The void on March 31 between Hotel and Adam's Rib has been filled out with creature features.
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3 minutes ago, TheOneandOnlyCritic2000 said:
Your welcome dude, lucky I had the schedule up in another tab👍
Yeah, it will always be that link.
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Thanks for starting a thread, I've been in conferences all day. It looks like my schedule flipped on its own without any issue this time.
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3 hours ago, LornaHansonForbes said:
(Obviously, the bathroom has a door, it's just open for the shot), but it seems to me like they could've done a great [custom made] HIDDEN DOORWAY to conceal it, a recessed china hutch the opens into the can so it's not so outre to where you're always reminded of what the end result of everything you do in this room will be.
that ARCHED TOP would make a neat shelf
i think MORE ART on the walls would make the room more personal, maybe some more framed bird prints.
Please, close the door gently. Unless of course if you might be channeling Fred Astaire's upside-down set designer from Royal Wedding and all those bits and pieces of curio and other crap are solidly attached to the moving frame.
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4 hours ago, lydecker said:
It's as though all the rich people have the same decorator -- All the rooms look so sterile and there are no books or nice artwork to be seen anywhere -- Nothing to indicate that the owners actually have any personality! Don't get me started on the bathroom thing. Apparently there need to be an excess of bathrooms in every house. If you don't have at least 4 bathrooms your house just isn't worth anything, apparently!!
It looks like this place is set up for entertaining. Wide open spaces and room for at least 30-40 to congregate. I would I find that half-bath off the kitchen a bit disturbing though if I were invited to dinner as a guest. Just bad logistics all around, including when the kitchen exhaust fan is used and someone is in there.
I've visited plenty of older homes though that never had a bath on the first floor (you'd have to go upstairs). I'd have to see the layout of this home to be sure, but maybe seal up that kitchen wall and open it up to another room. Or else undo that half-bath altogether and relocate it or just nix it.
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Here, try this. A clip of approximately the time OP mentioned. Anyone with the intelligence level of at least a gnat (and an up-to-date browser) should be able to see this. Click full screen for best results. Maybe download the file first, then play, if there are bandwidth issues. I am just too lazy to downsize.
https://moviecollectoroh.com/tmp/Its in the Bag (1945) clip.mp4
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My expectation, not that many people are going to have that many original ideas. So after they exhaust their own concepts, they go on to editing each other's ideas, then they come up with an internal boilerplate approach to writing their episodes. Every now and then I have seen old movies referenced, sometimes even acknowledged in the title of the episode. I've mostly just seen this with older sitcoms. Then there is non-fiction or current events passed under the guise of fiction or sci-fi. Or social engineering passed off as comedy or drama. At that point it is not so much about original ideas, as much as it is a literary synthesis where the outcome justifies the means - to produce a commentary, to try and warn people things may not be what they appear, or to influence others.
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On 2/18/2021 at 2:03 PM, TikiSoo said:
I love my GPS. Although I was very shocked realizing most people cannot read a paper map! GPS is much easier than a paper map when driving alone but I can still navigate just fine using a map or even the sky when that's not available. Valuable skills for the upcoming zombie apocalypse.
One zombie apocalypse, coming up.
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7 hours ago, lydecker said:
Somebody I worked with (in their 20's) told me that he had no idea of how to get from their home to work (and apparently they only live about 20 minutes from work) without using the GPS on his phone. This person was not kidding.
Sounds about right, being that it isn't the other way around.
One of my buddies is an over the top consumer-tech junkie, though he became this way by attempting to relate to his kids.
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Here's a YT link. All I did was I search for "Sound Effects Show at Universal Studios" and that returned some links to crowd-sourced videos of guest shows at Universal. In particular, ones where audience members were invited up front to make noise with acoustic noisemakers on demand "when the red light goes on", cues that went along with a movie scene that the audience saw, and in some cases later played back for the volunteers to see as well.
So click on this link and look at some of the videos. It seems to be a multi-part question based on research/personal experiences of those who visited or worked there (Topbilled??), so all I can really do here is point you in some general direction:https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Effects+Show+at+Universal+Studios+Hollywood
I must admit these crowd videos take the pi ss out of some of the attractions.
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3 hours ago, TikiSoo said:
Wrong. Might be easier to comprehend the original post if paragraphs were delineated.
LOL I'm thinking some people on here post by talking into their cell phones. I have a buddy that finds stores that way. Me, I have a stand-alone GPS in the car, all the maps are stored in it. That way when the cell service craps out, and I am out of town, it still works perfectly. Each to their own.
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48 minutes ago, Sepiatone said:
But, we all know, "great cinema" is a matter of personal opinion and taste. Thee article seems to presume that far more "average" people "stream" than probably do.
Sepiatone
It is probably safe to say that most people alive today have never seen "great cinema". Classic movies streamed over an ipad type of device, sure.
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He sort of strikes me as an Andy Rooney type, except that Rooney might have declared movies from certain years to be terrible because that is when the stock market went down, the price of gas and food went way up, Texas froze over, people walked around with cardboard stuffed in their shoes to plug up the holes, and nobody thought to get out to the theaters and finance the studios. But that is why they gave Rooney the last minutes of each show.
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1 hour ago, Sepiatone said:
I like "Ambersons" but it is a chore to sit though. I imagine most people didn't care HOW it ended, but were thankful that it finally HAD ended.
Funny how that works.....
A movie like LAWRENCE OF ARABIA, at 227 minutes can still seem much shorter than "The Magnificent Ambersons" at 88. It reminds me of two occurances....
Several rolls of unprocessed 35mm film taken by a noted candid photographer( I'm mad at myself for not remembering the name) were discovered. The initial idea was to have the film developed and printed for display at an exhibition. This was dismissed as those who knew the photographer and others familiar with his work knew that what made his photographs great were the choices he made of which exposures to print and display and his particuar way of developing the negative, which others could not exactly duplicate.
Another was the discovery of an old spiral notebook, once belonging to BUDDY HOLLY was found in one of his old guitar cases. It contained pages of songs he wrote but hadn't had chance to record before his death. The idea was that some modern day singers would record them, but the idea was quickly dismissed because the notebook only contained the LYRICS of songs, with not melody or chord charts included. so....
If people in the two examples realized NObody can complete any individual's projects with that individual's unique style, then who can presume to complete Orson Welles' movie the way Orson intended?
Sepiatone
It might be an interesting exercise though for a music dept somewhere to run a grad project to deconstruct Holly's musical elements versus linguistic and semantic cues in his lyrics, using his finished songs as case studies. Then use that as a guide to produce let's say an album's worth of interpretations.
Then gather up some session performers and track it at this purpose-built recording studio:
That would be more feasible overall anyhow I think than trying to reimagine Welles' visual composition using CGI (or animation) as a crutch to fill out some missing movie segments.
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3 hours ago, TopBilled said:
Interesting idea.
Wonder what Mr. Welles would have thought...
Somehting to do with Crayola crayons and meat hooks?
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On 2/11/2021 at 3:52 PM, cmovieviewer said:
Thank you for pointing this out. It looks like along with this change, the schedule will "remember" the time zone you last selected when you go back to the schedule later. (Something we used to have with the previous schedule that has been lost since the new schedule system was implemented.)
Small steps.
I recall you were in an area where the schedule didn't line up. Post back with feedback, but only if you feel like it. You have been a big help around here already.
P.S. Now I see someone posted an issue in the technical complaint forums just this past Wednesday that the times on the schedules are still not correct for her. So while a new mechanism may have been put in place just a week ago (this much is for certain), maybe it is not fully implemented or tuned in yet.
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Not exactly nuclear secrets from the early cold war era, but like anything else coming out of there, it is an NDA wrapped up in an enigma wrapped up in an NDA..
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3 hours ago, midwestan said:
I don't really mind the newer layout of the "TCM Schedule", but one thing I've noticed (this week, anyway) is that the information takes soooooooooooooo lonnnnnnnnnnnnnnng to load. I like to check the daily schedule early in the morning during my 'quiet time' before I start working out, but this week has been disastrous. I swear, I could do 3 loads of laundry, cook an entire Thanksgiving dinner, and knit a couple of sweaters (if I knew how to knit) and the daily schedule information STILL DOESN'T LOAD! There isn't a problem with seeing the schedule if I consult it later in the day. It's just in the hours around sunrise where it won't kick out any information. This is the only segment of the TCM website where this happens to me. Anyone else experience this, or is my computer just haunted?
Signed, Puzzled
2 hours ago, txfilmfan said:Yes, something's changed. I use Chrome on a Windows 10 PC.
It never loads for me on the first attempt. I always have to reload/refresh the page in order for the schedule to display. It comes up almost immediately after the refresh.
It started behaving this way about a week ago for me.
Just above some of the chatter here, I noticed back on Sunday that the schedule page actually loads in a different way now, for the better. I can assure you that this change has been made, as it affected my own "new feed" schedule until I fixed it by redirecting to a newer address. In doing so, I noticed there are now separate data feeds for EST, CST, and so forth. This change looks like it happened last Saturday.
This is actually a good change, no matter how you might look at their updated website. Think of it as being a bit more complete. It now sends each time zone a different data feed of the schedule, versus attempting to calculate it in the user browser based on the Eastern time zone.
The improvements may have had unintended consequences - temporarily I hope.
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6 minutes ago, TopBilled said:
These were just friendly suggestions I was making, that is all.
And I was trying to make it feasible on my end. One unit = one feature-length movie. Easy peasy.
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3 minutes ago, TopBilled said:
Well I am saying that your efforts in this regard will prevent others from saying you are being too subjective when you draw that magic invisible line you mentioned.
Also repeats on the schedule should definitely be counted fully. If they air the 138-minute NORTH BY NORTHWEST three times in a month then it gets 1.38 units times three or 4.14 total units.
By counting everything fully, then we are able to see how much time is "wasted" on those wine ads and the other homemade commercials they air when movies are not being screened on TCM.
I am very clear about that, both here and on the reports
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All anyone needs to do is read the headers of my reports. This has been that way for about 5 years.
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1 minute ago, TopBilled said:
Not telling you what to do, but couldn't you "weight" it. Like make 100 minutes the standard length (unit for counting). So a film like GONE WITH THE WIND counts as 2.38 units and something like MY FORBIDDEN PAST counts as 0.7 units. I think your numbers might be fairer. That way you could then factor in a 20 minute Laurel & Hardy short counting it as 0.2 units.
Just a suggestion!
And how much are you paying me for these services?
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Funny how that works.....
Digesting and calculating MovieCollectorOH's American Studio Films by years
in General Discussions
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The year-by-year PDF attachment file looks plausible, so I will say that is probably good to go. The only way I could verify would be to crosscheck that for myself, and I wouldn't try to do that by hand. So I would actually need to make up a separate report.
I took issue in regards to the much larger numbers posted in the OP in this thread, and in another thread, which went far over the ~10,000 actual unique features ever shown on TCM. First, I am assuming you are just summing the results from multiple broadcast years together. Since all those broadcast years are combined, the results no longer show "unique features" (important because now you need to change the labeling to accurately represent that).
Within that compound number, there are some movies that were shown every year and some movies that were shown much less. So now it is no longer about "unique" numbers - it is a combination of sparsely aired movies and movies aired every year. You "could" convert this into a "yearly average of unique features" however, just by dividing each figure by number of broadcast years, then labeling as such. Your percentages would still be the same. Or don't average them. But the labeling for that should at least change - i.e. "yearly summation of unique features".
Hey, thanks for the interest.