Movie Collector OH

I'll take one! That thing looks like it lives in a climate-controlled warehouse, the only mileage to get loaded up into a big trailer and then off and into display position at car shows.

Here's some pictures of the now demolished Ford Auditorium. Not all that impressive of a place, and it was said to have poor acoustics. I don't know if it was known for movies, but there were projection ports in the rear of the room. Mainly known for housing the Detroit Orchestra for a few decades and sounding not so great. https://historicdetroit.org/galleries/ford-auditorium-old-photos

I take it your Fox Theater is a different theater from the one they converted to a fancy-looking parking garage. I have seen pics of that online in the past. Also I read a long article about the former Ford Theater in Detroit and one of the guys who dismantled it. They saved the pipe organ, I think the guy who wrote the article rescued it for use at his own location he was in charge of. A good follow-up question to the OP question might be "what (classic) theater would you like to see your movies in?" 😁

Furiously looking for an appropriate old Robert Crumb cartoon to exemplify. Ahh..

This used to happen in the past. There was one time where they had a block of entries from Canada (National Film Board??), which didn't have any descriptors in the TCM schedule, everything was blank except for the title and year. I picked up all the descriptors in my monthly database premieres report though - as that gets its descriptors from IMDB, instead of AFI. So it was a clear case of one data source being more complete than the other. I have noticed in the past that the AFI had some blind spots for some of the more marginal foreign stuff. Since the descriptors do appear on the linked movie page, it could be a case of someone at TCM penciling it in, maybe a newer revision of AFI used for the AFI movie page, or maybe just some leftover odds and ends from the data migration.

The overall layout and omission of "future months" from the new schedules demonstrates a certain level of disconnect going on, typical with corporate consolidation. I sense that it is a bit like the older radio stations that have a history in the area, compared to the way they are run today. Back in the 1980s or early 1990s, many of them each had a different location, and you had to drive around town to get to them. Some had a nice suite at the top of a ritzy office tower, others were also interesting in some way or another for their sponsors, business associates, and celebrities to visit when they were in town. A couple others I can think of, on the lower end of the dial, operated on a shoestring budget and had kind of a cheap setup hidden away in the basement of an older building off to the side somewhere. Today most have been bought up by the media holding companies with the deepest pockets. Here is an example of the type of situation we have around here where I am. On the surface, this is just a nondescript business building with units available for rent. What "is" there though are the local Clear Channel/iHeartRadio stations. The offices and studios for what used to be five different major FM radio stations and the biggest AM radio station in this area, now all in located in a cluster of office units within close proximity to each other. It just is what it is. https://www.loopnet.com/Listing/6200-Oak-Tree-Blvd-Independence-OH/4088559/ Anyhow it is neither here nor there, and I forget where I was going with that. 😄

As it stands right now, your only "official" option is to go to the Daily schedule and work your way ahead, beyond this month. In addition to that, as a paying viewer myself, I have gone out of my way to produce an "unofficial" work-around which is technically more concise and easier for some to use. All the available months are presented on a simple web page, you just need to scroll down. It is updated daily from the exact same data source that their website uses. https://www.moviecollectoroh.com/nightly/sched-new.htm Those are your two choices right now.

Yes.

Last time was in 2017. Before that 4x in 2014, 6x in 2013, and fairly consistently all the way back to 2002;

For advanced users - Here's a Linux Bash script I wrote last night out of morbid curiosity. It should run on Linux, Cygwin, and possibly newer versions of Windows 10 (I'm not a Windows 10 user though, so I can't say which). I'm just passing this along, since there isn't currently a way I can fully automate this. To carry this out requires a major browser running in GUI mode as far as I can tell, and I don't wish to use automated key sequences in a script. To use, just download the "complete" Monthly schedule into a directory, then download, unzip and put this script into that same directory, mark the executable bit under file permissions, and run. It will save to a new HTML file. As mentioned above, you may need to zoom out or maximize your browser window in order to see the pictures. There are more HTML tags/classes in this script than explained above, as the Linux Sed utility doesn't interpret HTML tags natively. Therefore recursive tags/classes needed to be broken out into explicit pairs, inner ones first. As of this posting, it worked for me. I used Firefox for the browser. https://moviecollectoroh.com/misc/tcm-monthly-web-hacks.zip

To do that would require some coordination between parties. Either that or hammer away at their site all day long. For now, mine just updates once a day, in the early evening. I am trying to be a good "netizen" here. I could possibly add more intervals to that though, perhaps during the day.

The "fixed" version of Dec on the new schedule was up by Oct 15, but now only officially viewable on the new Daily schedule. Prior to that there was info for Dec, but it was just a bunch of junk as they were still working on their data migration in front of everyone (approx Sept 29 - Oct 14). Then they cut Dec out for a short time. When Dec reappeared on Oct 15th, the data looked good to go. So the short answer is, "it is too soon to tell what they might be up to". So you can tell either by going to the official Daily schedule and working your way ahead, or by going to my unofficial schedule and scrolling all the way down (same exact data, more concise to look at). I am going with this page from now on, it gets updated in the evenings: https://www.moviecollectoroh.com/nightly/sched-new.htm

Something like that might be a viable idea for automated updates, as I am doing, if one were to use scripted text filtering to find and remove said text blocks. This looks to be a possibility as each text block starts off with something unique. I did my unique version of the schedule, which gets its data directly from the same JSON data source as they do, and whose output is far more simple. Just for the very purpose of getting data across from point A to point B in a concise and technically elegant manner (robust and less chance of software issues or errors being introduced). My script just reads the data source, and outputs some fields and plunks down some tags to build a browser-compatible HTML file.

Speaking of corporate word salad - About 20 years ago I tried using the Dilbert Performance Review Generator at a desk job, and it really helped out. (This was back when things like this on the Internet were still a fresh idea.) It had a bare-minimum of any real content and was ridden with cliches, meaningless platitudes, relativism, and silly perfunctory corporate-speak of the day. My supervisor absolutely loved it. She complimented me on my performance review every day for about a week, and there wasn't any sarcasm on her part. It helped me out because I just never learned to talk like that in the music world or in the engineering world. This had all come about with the silly corporate consultants that had emerged sometime in the 1990s.

I mostly know of her through the bigger musicals she was in. Very beautiful lady. RIP.

Reality TV.

You're welcome, and thanks for pointing that change out. In addition I already have the means to use either feed for the database project, just swap a script when the time is right. I might have to rename that new one then - maybe to "working/development", but not yet "stable" - that is a goal. Furthermore, it looks like they are dropping the technical specs (Color, AR, Letterbox) as they can't guarantee what version they will get. As long as the movies keep flowing, like wine.

I don't see what changed there. It must have been interesting enough to mention.

I have done about all I can do, which is to watch the feeds for any significant changes to data structure, etc, and then make my own reports based upon that. If you click on the 2nd link, it goes to a "new feed" schedule which I recently put up. It has a "PST" field which has been "null" since I first developed this. I put it in, in case they might start to use it. https://www.moviecollectoroh.com/nightly/sched.htm https://www.moviecollectoroh.com/nightly/sched-new.htm There weren't any changes to the feeds when it was reported that the times had been fixed, and there aren't any changes now. So anything going on now would probably have likely be with client-side JS which reads and interprets the TZ data. Either an outright error in the logic or else perhaps in the way TZ inferences are being made with JS. I could probably get to the bottom of why it isn't working, i.e. have a look at conventional client-side JS TZ implementations that do work and then see where this thing falls short, but that is beyond my pay grade here. One would think this part of the project is low-hanging fruit - just start with some templates that work.

The others are right. Those were both pulled on the last night they were up, Sept 28.

To the newer posters - Here. Bookmark this. October through December. And then January in due time, if it is meant to be. https://www.moviecollectoroh.com/nightly/sched.htm P.S. and if you don't like that, here are older saved copies of Nov and Dec. But they are already or will someday be obsolete: Nov https://moviecollectoroh.com/pics_to_hotlink_on_TCM/broadcast_2020_11_pulled_2020_09_28.html Dec https://moviecollectoroh.com/pics_to_hotlink_on_TCM/broadcast_2020_12_pulled_2020_09_28.html

Abso-streaking-lutely.

I already have a zipper for used wine. Going without a mask, the "new streaking".

Only one set of JSON files is directly used in the "new schedule". Then there is the "older set" which isn't. Presumably it is still used for something, one can only hope. Compare my two linked files for yourself - they are dissimilar to an extent. Other than that, there's not much to know about the APIs. The use of one set of JSON files over the other has nothing to do with speed. It is a design choice. There is a small gain in speed, especially with smaller devices that have smaller CPUs, in using any form of JSON (versus static HTML). That is only due to the way it loads images and larger files on demand as the user scrolls down. That is in contrast to the entire page loading on a conventional static HTML page (page contents generated on server-side using something like PHP, versus on client-side using something like JSON).