Needless details about your collection..
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Funny thing is (and I just posted this at FSM), I put two search queries into Google today
1. Directors who went to film school
2. Directors who never went to film schoolHere ware the first results of what Google Gemini listed:
Obviously, you cannot just rely on the first thing Google (Gemini) presents you, you have to cross reference and verify things.
A.I. is like any other tool, it can do some things exceptionally well, more efficiently than any human, yet fails at other, for humans simple tasks.
But we’re just in the beginning era of widespread use of A.I., it’s basically “toddler age”, and the development is remarkably swift. So many things the A.I. could not do just half a year ago, it can now do with ease. So it will progress.
Spielberg started film school, but dropped out.
He and his colleagues went to the school of life instead.
Seems like an answer of mine is once again in digital limbo…
Was that the one with the images? The spam filter seems not to like more than one link (an image is technically kind of link)
I just checked but we have no means to change any such behaviour neither via the forum itself nor the Akismet spam filter. Interesstingly the forum setting to actually use Akismet spam filter is off. TProbably we never had it enabled… But since you need to be registered and that is covered we probably fine for now. The links limit was WP standard setting though and indeed limited to 2. I raised it a bit to a few more.
Yeah, I noticed and wanted to ask you “wow, that’s a lot of John Williams recordings… what do you have?” I did check my own (considerable, but not as large as yours) John Williams collection. When I typed in “John Williams”, I get results for 170 albums and 12-13 days long, and so I was wondering what the heck am I missing? My actual “John Williams” albums are fewer, because just typing in “John Williams”, the programs also list compilations such as AMAZING STORIES where Williams appears, plus even unrelated recordings by the guitarist John Williams. I have about 125 albums or 9 days of listening time where the composer “John Williams” is the “Album Artist”.
I don’t have any expansions, so that means less minutes there.
That, plus I sometimes (not always) combine two albums into one. When I have both an expanded album and the OST, or the identical album in two different masters, I often combine them in my collection under one “Main Album” (if necessary, the individual discs would then be tagged with the mastering or release information or whatever)
For example here is Presumed Innocent:
Disc 1 is the Varèse Deluxe Edition, Disc 2 is the OST. They are of course two different releases, but in my collection they take up one “album slot”.
That explains my above average album lengths.
I sometimes separate in ‘discs’ too. Of course, I lied a bit when I said I have NO expansions whatsoever. I do own some, like – say – TOM SAWYER. So I have the OST on “Disc 1” and a curated selection of Williams’ score material on “Disc 2”.
I usually keep albums as they are when importing from CD or downloading them. I don’t divide compilations into several albums. I would only do so if its a 2CD which two separate scores (e.g. the 4CD Star Wars box or the Airport 77/Airport 79 2CD) or sometimes if two versions (film vs albm recording or so). Different editions I keep always separate to be able to see which version is what. But I regulary change meta data as that is often so off on digital download services…
I don’t know if it qualifies as “needless details” about my collection, necessarily, but an ADMISSION, at least, is that my physical film collection never grew to much. Which is kinda embarassing as not only a film music lover, but a professional film journalist as well.
While I lived at home in the early 90s, I only had taped VHSes, films I had taped off of TV. Maybe a couple of original ones, like JURASSIC PARK. When I moved on my own, I acquired a few more, so I maybe had about 40-50 original VHSes at most. Then DVDs came in the early 2000s, and I sold all of the old tapes. Continued to acquire a few more DVDs over the years, but it never really took off. One, because of money (had to prioritize those CDs, dammit!), and two, because I never really had room for them. I still don’t have room for an extensive film collection in my tiny one room apartment, which is why my film collection currently counts some 75-100 titles, out of which maybe 5-6 Blu-rays, the rest DVD. So puny!
Anyone else with the same experience?
I gained a lot of space by buying these DVD sleves for libraries. These original DVD boxes are ridiculously oversized.
My experience is similar to Thor’s. I have been a film buff for as long as I can think back, but I do not have that many physical copies of movies. A couple hundred maybe, I don’t know. The main reason: I am really iffy when it comes to quality. Over the decades, I have amassed a lot of music, I have LPs, CDs, digital downloads… but quality is top. I always knew buying movies doesn’t give me the quality I actually want… until Bluray (and later, even better, 4K/UHD disc) came along. So I buy those now occassionally.
The story: I had some issues with movies on VHS and DVD… quality issues. I certainly watched them, and I bought some DVDs, but the quality wasn’t good enough for me to consider “collecting” them… I always waited for something better to come along.
Back in the day, we used to watch a lot of movies on VHS, and I actually had an early Sony Video8 recorder, as that had somewhat better picture and sound quality than VHS. What I did was rent movies on VHS from a local video rental, with a recorder, and then watched and taped them, so I could re-watch and analyze them.
But the quality of VHS and video tape was atrocious, I did not find it satisfactory. So I only bought one pre-recorded VHS tape in my life (Hoosiers, in a supermarket… because it was so cheap, cheaper than renting it at the time). VHS quality was sub-par.
Then came DVD, that was much better… so I did buy a few DVDs… alas, the sound tended to be off. Somehow, picture quality was a huge improvement over VHS (certainly considering what TVs back in the day could show), but the sound was of. I found out, that was because PAL DVDs were often sped up, at 25 frames a second instead of 24. That was the reason why movies in Europe on DVD were often “shorter” than the US version, but it was also a reason why the sound was off. What a bummer. So I never bought that many DVDs… maybe 100… and I got rid of most of them. Because what happened was:Bluray came along. Wow, now there was a home video format that was finally satisfying… great image, great sound… the first home video medium I really love. So I replaced my DVDs, I got rid of most of them and replaced them with Blurays, because Blurays are finally are “good enough” in quality, so good, you could actually screen them on a big screen. 4K Blurays are even better.
And so I do have some Blurays and 4Ks, not sure how many, but I don’t really “collect” them. Nowadays, I watch movies less than I would listen to an album, so buying most movies seems superfluous. I usually stream movies I want to watch (Amazon Prime has them up to 4K/UHD), and buy only those I really want to keep and watch all the extra stuff.
I do buy my favorite movies or movies I really want to have if there are some exciting editions out there, like I bought the 4K/UHD remastered version of David Fincher’s SEVEN (haven’t watched it yet), because that is one of my all time favorite films (I did have the DVD (which I gave away), the Bluray (which I still have), and now the 4K disc), and I do have some other films I bought (like DUNE I&II), simply because I want to watch them whenever I want in the best possible quality, but I am very selective about what movies I buy. I haven’t counted my Blurays though, so I’m not sure how many I have. A lot less than music though, that’s for sure.But most movies these days I watch streaming.
Cool story, Nick! I’m impressed you were so quality conscious at the time, almost as if you were always looking ahead into the future.
I had a more mundane here-and-now relationship to it at the time. VHS was what it was; I never dreamed up better formats (although the extremely expensive and always elusive Laserdiscs existed at the same time I was buying tapes). I even marveled at some high end VHS transfers, like the aforementioned JURASSIC PARK — we had a great test run with that in the television room.
That’s why I can vividly remember the first time I watched a DVD at a friend’s student dorm, probably around the year 2000. Totally blew me away! But unlike music, where I was always HiFi-minded (something I inherited from my dad), I was never really the same way with films. I remember getting the cheapo DVD ScanBox version of SUPERMAN: THE MOVIE, and although I was bummed there weren’t many extra features on it, the video and sound were so much better than my old taped VHS!
I am also not a film collector. I did record to VHS back in the 90s but primarily when I couldn’t watch something on linear TV. I do have a DVD player I hardly use and I don’t have and never had a Bluray player at all. I basically have no DVDs but occasionally borrow some from thte library. I mostly stream nowdays, eithter via public broadcaster mediatheks or Netflix.
For me the reason is somehow that re-liste to music more often – even the many you listen far too less often – than I re-watch a movie. Of course there are favorites I do an have watched several times but they are always shown somewhere like ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST which I watched some weeks ago again. More than once a year is enough and there is so much stuff I haven’t watched at all.
Also if I watch films I don’t really do anything else sideways which I certainly often do when listening to music. Like working or else. Although I like to listen to music without doing that. But time……
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