Movie Collector OH
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3 hours ago, sewhite2000 said:
I was under the impression there would be no math on the TCM Message Boards ...
All you need to know for posting here is...
The Ideal-Gas Equation
PV = nRT
http://www.mikeblaber.org/oldwine/chm1045/notes/Gases/IdealGas/Gases04.htmThat should cover it.
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1 hour ago, sewhite2000 said:
I feel certain I've seen it as recently as this year.
I've seen it several times while editing my video captures. Very recently.
How old is that Sugarland promo of a promo/reality video anyway? LOL
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5 hours ago, skimpole said:
I went through it manually. And just to confirm, TCM has in fact shown Red and you forgot to include it?
Yes. More to the point, a one-of-a-kind technical glitch I was unaware of, on my watch.
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Just now, TopBilled said:
I usually just clicked on the link in your signature. But now that option is no longer available. I'm just going to bookmark it. Thanks.
P.S. For now I also have it under my name on the left. It's probably too small for most to notice, but easy enough to copy and paste.
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1 hour ago, TopBilled said:
Maybe there's a way you can put the link on your profile page. Or have you already done it?
It's there. Nobody cares to look. There is only so much I can do. Maybe if I stand on my head and spit wooden nickels.
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On 6/15/2018 at 3:13 AM, skimpole said:
Well none of the movies you mention have been on TCM, according to this website http://moviecollector.us/reports/TCM_SCHEDULES_SUMMARY_alpha.htm
There might be some confusion: TCM has show White and Blue, but not Red. It has shown Early Spring, Late Spring, Early Summer, The End of Summer, and Late Autumn, but not An Autumn Afternoon. AMC actually did show the uncut version of Once Upon a Time in America sometime this decade.
I'm not familiar with that list you posted (theyshootpictures.com). Did they use my website, or did you manually go through and check all their entries with mine? Either way, that was a lot of work for someone...
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19 hours ago, slaytonf said:
The Website is wrong. I told you I recorded Trois Couleurs: Rouge and An Autumn Afternoon. I said I was unsure of . . . .America. But I think it was.
Every little bit of feedback helps. Both foreign titles. I'm not surprised.
The first one, Red, is easy for me to see what happened. A matching error on my part. I do have this one in my source files, so it is easily confirmed.
I don't see An Autumn Afternoon anywhere. Could you confirm the year-month this aired?
Same for Once Upon a Time in America.
P.S. I only came across this by chance, as I don't read all the threads. If you want me to see something, put it into here
http://forums.tcm.com/topic/185669-the-when-was-the-last-time-a-movie-played-on-tcm-thread/
or here
http://forums.tcm.com/topic/48504-tcm-premieres/
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1 hour ago, sewhite2000 said:
Over the years, I've tried to look up most of the seemingly lost and buried movies on your site out of curiosity, but I guess I never actually looked up Beyond the Forest, which has such a rep as a "disappeared" movie, I just assumed it had never aired on TCM without ever checking. Well, congrats to those lucky folks who happened to be watching that one time in 1994! TCM's first year on the air.
Can't recall this happening much lately, but once in a blue moon, TCM toots its own horn when it's able to show some film that has been buried for many years. One example that immediately springs to mind is The Iron Petticoat, which I'm not going to pretend is any great movie now that I've seen it, but it was a once-in-a-lifetime pairing of Bob Hope and Katharine Hepburn and is interesting for that reason alone. I know TopBilled is also excited about the upcoming Republic Pictures spotlight night, as I'm not sure TCM has shown much of anything from Republic besides The Quiet Man in ten years or more. Not even John Wayne movies. A quick check of your site, and I see Sands of Iwo Jima last played in 2010 and Wake of the Red Witch in 2008. And every time TCM plays The Quiet Man, Ben M. or whoever the host is will always mention that Ford, Wayne and O'Hara all had to another pic for Republic first before they could make it, but has TCM ever played that movie?
Anyway, I was starting to ramble there. My point, and I do have one, is I'm always quietly holding out hope that TCM is aware that part of their fan base is longing for an occasional airing of such rarities and accommodate us when they're able.
Hi, I just wanted to confirm that there have been many improvements to my data over the last year.
The first few years of TCM were only added into the project early last year. So those first years were completely missing before that.
Also there were numerous other pre-2001 parts filled in last year, some of it provided by fellow poster @yanceycravat Now there just remains a total of about 1.5 years pre-2001 missing. That is for the whole TCM history.
I am fortunate to have someone else helping now, someone else who is computer-savy, to archive the month-ending data on an ongoing basis as well as provide me a one time set of his data from this decade. This is something he happened to be doing already on his own, so only some minor adjustments on each of our ends was necessary. I appreciate his help very much.
I still do the future months, normalization (data matching across different data sources), error tests, and reports. All of that now takes me about 2-3 hours a month.
It is only possible through the help of these other people, chipping in as they could (now up to about 6-7 other people total), that I was able to put all this together.
Yes, long live TCM.
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1 hour ago, cinemanut said:
Has TCM ever shown Beyond The Forest with Bette Davis? I think there is legal trouble {some kind of rights issue, don't know with whom}, so I'm not sure the channel has EVER aired it.
Yes, it is possibly tied up. I have it shown in Nov 1994. My listing is in the link below. Ever since they did away with this forum's signature area in all their infinite wisdom, I haven't had this prominently displayed.
http://moviecollector.us/reports/TCM_SCHEDULES_SUMMARY_alpha.htm-
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4 hours ago, malachy31759 said:
Mystery solved! Thanks so very much. You ended a 10-year search. I just watched it again on youtube and forgot how awful/great it was. I forgot it was like a long, bad TV mini-series (like Scruples). I had a few things wrong. It was not an American film and it was not NYC, but rather Australian and most likely Sydney. Super cheesy, but well worth it to see the lead actress Sigrid Thornton and her walk along the beach. Thanks again MovieCollectorOH. Pat
Good! They played that during May of 2011.
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Most of your clues lead to this.
Snapshot (1979)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079917/?ref_=fn_al_tt_2Looks like a stinker, it is up on YT.
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Here you go. Liszt Sonnet no. 123
(I have this cued up to match the point in the movie)
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The weatherman Willard Scott only used a stage name, inspired by a garden gnome his next door neighbor had at his childhood home (probably TMI). Not so sure about the movie script.
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13 minutes ago, jimmymac71 said:
You gave me that advice before, and it didn't always work. When it does work, the process isn't automatic. I am asked between displaying as embedded or link in the text window. So, this will all be better when I switch to Linux?
Never mind that message. If you want, click on the "x" at the right to make it go away. If you click on the middle of that message, where it says "click here to convert this to a link instead", then it will convert it to a link instead.
It has nothing to do with whatever operating system you use. It is a standardized browser feature that (presumably) all browsers use. I use the latest version of Firefox (it works exactly the same across different operating systems). I presume Chrome isn't any different in those regards.
I only switched to Linux Mint for an operating system because I got fed up with Microsoft's broken automatic updates and forced upgrades. I don't like reloading everyone's machines all the time, and Linux Mint is more laid back that way.
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1 hour ago, jimmymac71 said:
I use Windows 10 and Google Chrome. I use the link tab in the message board and paste the YouTube link. Once in a while it works. Many times it is just a link. With photos, I drag and drop them, and it works. I was told to paste the link into the text window and press enter, which didn't work in my case. Somewhere is a compatibility issue, is my best guess. Anyway "Myth" at its best with Kermie, and a movie packed with stars.
Also make a point to hit the Enter key on your keyboard immediately after pasting the video link into this message area. That will force it to embed the video clip. That is something that takes place on your browser (at least on this forum). I think some posters inadvertently do this without thinking about it, and still don't understand how it works.
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On 6/7/2018 at 1:44 PM, TopBilled said:
In my TCM schedules thread on another forum someone posted this:
To which I replied:
Not sure I understand what you mean. Are you saying they are spacing out the movies to put in more of those wine club ads and Backlot stuff? Thereby reducing the overall total number of films that air each day? Is that what you're saying?
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Is TCM really playing less films now than they did five years ago?
I posted this addition earlier, probably should have quoted the OP.
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On cinnamon crumbs and how many angels you can fit onto the head of a pin, etc. I'd never do anything like that by hand either, I think it would be crazy and worthy of getting one's head examined. However I do like to solve puzzles and for me this is like solving a puzzle. So it's time for everyone to put on their thinking caps again here.
update:
I have modified one of my reports to consolidate some information. It now has two colums of data, "Unique features" and "Including repeats".
"Unique Features" counts each movie once, per year aired. "Including repeats" counts all airing of all movies within time frame.
With these two figures now side by side, you can get a pretty close idea of average percentage of repeats. (I have defined a "movie" here as being 45 minuntes or longer.)
http://moviecollector.us/reports/1)unique-features_movies-only.htm
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Oh I've been looking on and off. This is one I have been wondering about too. To the OP: any more clues would help. I've looked into about 15 movies or so. This one intrigues me too. Once it is figured out, I want a copy!
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16 hours ago, yanceycravat said:
I think someone is having a bit of sport!
Hot Spell is a Paramount Picture. It may be a very long time (if ever) before it shows on TCM!
I have no record of MY PAST ever being shown. At least as far back to December 2006.
See if your Sept 2014 schedule was retrieved before Sept 29, 2014 (that is the date it was last scheduled in my records). They had the entire month to pull a switcheroo.
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9 minutes ago, TopBilled said:
Yeah it would be helpful to add that. But...let's say TCM schedules a morning of Tim Holt westerns. Most of those are no longer than 65 or 70 minutes. So a day of shorter B films means the total for that day will be greater than a day when 3-hour war epics are scheduled. The amount of movies per day will fluctuate depending on the theme.
But I think the person I quoted in the original post is upset that there is more space being put in between the movies, where one movie ends and there are a lot of ads now before the next movie starts.
A short is understood to be anything less than 45 min, so those would count as movies too.
FWIW I don't base the durations of the features in my project on what TCM's schedule says, along with all the padding. I base it on what IMDB says the duration of each feature is.
P.S. more padding might mean fewer repeats, I'm not sure at this point.
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I don't really have anything new to add to this. Just copying and pasting what I already have posted on my site.
http://moviecollector.us/reports.htmHere is one of the first things I ever put together, back when I started posting. It is a movie-only report that counts unique movies shown per year on TCM, broken down by production decade. See for yourself, go ahead and click on this link...I dare you:
http://moviecollector.us/reports/3)unique-features_movies-only.htmIt just dawned on me that I don't actually have a movie-only report at this time that counts all movies, including movie repeats, per year. So you can't tell that right now from my info. But that would be easy enough to add.
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22 hours ago, TopBilled said:
So probably I was wrong when I said all the titles cycle through in a three year period. It's probably more like five years or longer before everything cycles though, and if they opt to play NORTH BY NORTHWEST more often, then that takes time away from other titles that have to wait longer to be rebroadcast.
If mapped out, their airing timelines would probably form a pretty good monte carlo pattern rather than any kind of notable bell curve timeline, but that is just my own take on it. I have better things to do in my life than go through all of that just to find out.
22 hours ago, TopBilled said:In other words this would be a very extensive, time consuming project to figure out all of what TCM has access to in the Turner library and then to figure out on average how often certain titles are replayed.
Yes. Mostly in determining which various and sundry movies they have shown (ie inherited, not tied up in rights issues, not explicitly mentioned in ownership, etc) actually belong in the "library" figures.
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My newest Premieres updates are up for this month of June
http://moviecollector.us/reports/Future_Premieres.htmand the rest of my project:
http://moviecollector.us/reports.htmPlease note: some Shorts are likely to not be Premieres. I err on the side of caution here, opting to include as much as possible, rather than miss anything.
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1 minute ago, LawrenceA said:
Tough Guys is available on DVD and Blu-ray.
Cool! Didn't know that.
Movies you almost despair of seeing on TCM
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I wouldn't lose any sleep over it. I just thought there might have been a recording date on your actual recording. Also, there might be the chance it was switched out for something else, and you might not have noticed until now (I have discovered a couple times that I did that) - in which case you could verify by simply popping your recording in and watching for the correct opening credits. Failing that, there is still a chance it didn't get into my system just because it wasn't in the schedule at any of the times of capture - an increasingly more narrow possibility as I get better data in.