IMDb Missing Entries

[swo17]

A few films produced by R.W. Paul:

A Camp Smithy (Director Unknown, 1899, 1 min)
Aberdeen University Quarter Centenary Celebrations (R.W. Paul, 1906, 31 min)
A Lively Quarter-Day (J.H. Martin, 1906, 5 min)

[fiddlesticks]

[Twist] Please, sir, I want some more! [/Twist]
Just one more obscure Korean title that imdb sorely needs to include:
A Light Sleep (가벼운 잠, Gabyeoun Jam)...please see here, here, and/or here.
Thanks in advance!

[sienel]

I've submitted:

April 29:
La charité du prestidigitateur / The Magician's Alms
Les O'Mers dans "Les maçons"/ The O'Mers in "The Bricklayers"
La statue/ The Statue
Clown, chien et ballon; Chien jouant à la balle / Clown, Dog and Balloon (aka Dog Playing Ball)
Espagne/ Spain
Le tango/ The Tango
La malagueña et le torero / The Malagueña and the Bullfighter
Saharet, boléro / Saharet Performs the Bolero
Polin, l'anatomie du conscrit / Polin Performs "The Anatomy of a Draftee"
Une course d'obstacle / An Obstacle Course
La hiérarchie dans l'amour / The Hierarchies of Love
Une histoire roulante / A Story Well Spun
Le Noël de Monsieur le curé / The Parish Priest's Christmas
La vérité sur l'homme-singe / The Truth Behind the Ape-Man
Effets de mer / Ocean Studies
Le fils du garde-chasse / The Game-Keeper's Son
Le ballon dirigeable "Le patrie" / The Dirigible "Homeland"
Le coq dressé de Cook et Rilly / Cook & Rilly's Trained Rooster

Who's That Knocking at My Door? (저수지에서 건진 치타, Eo-soo-ji-ae-seo Geon-jin Chee-tah)


May 1:
Starting off with just a few of the Lumière titles to see if I can get them through - on the ones below I'm using the release date/year listed in Catalogue des films projetés à Saint-Étienne avant la première guerre mondiale
97 Voitures automobiles
247 Cyclistes et cavaliers arrivant au cottage
273 Pont suspendu

Lineage of the Voice (소리 아이, So-ri A-i)
The All-Powerful Romance (최강 로맨스, Choi-kang Ro-maen-seu)


IMDb links added May 5.

[SalParadise]

Thanks for the great work!

A brilliant documentary, which I urge all to see.

Though I am Gone
我雖死去/ Wo sui si qu by Hu Jie 2006
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cm1Fe1Bj ... re=channel" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[swo17]

Thanks again, sienel! It looks like those Lumière films you submitted have made it onto the site now. Let me know if there's anything I can do with all of the other titles I mentioned, presenting them differently or whatever, that would help make things easier for you to submit them.

[sienel]

I've updated my post above with the links to the titles that were added today.

A note on the Korean films: the IMDb's transliteration of choice is here. I've tried to at least submit the titles using that system which is why there's some differences in what was posted in this thread and what I added to the IMDb. This was my first attempt at this though - hopefully I didn't screw anything up too badly.

Re: the Lumière films - it's slow-going as I'm trying to find at least a few links for each. The IMDb has a pre-screening system that a title submission has to pass through before human eyes ever have a chance to approve or reject, and including sites that reference the title help it get through that first step. So I'm tracking down Google Books sites, listings of Lumière films like the one jorozko posted, pages on database sites, etc for each.

Submitted May 5:
12 Baignade de nègres
25 Concours de bébés
31 Danse Tyrolienne
53 Jongleur javanais
266 Danse au bivouac

[links added May 27]

[swo17]

The DVD that I saw all of these on has a screen like this preceding each film:



Would more screengrabs like this help?

[fiddlesticks]

I've updated my post above with the links to the titles that were added today.

A note on the Korean films: the IMDb's transliteration of choice is here. I've tried to at least submit the titles using that system which is why there's some differences in what was posted in this thread and what I added to the IMDb. This was my first attempt at this though - hopefully I didn't screw anything up too badly.

Thanks. I'll keep a link to that pdf and try to remember to use it on future requests.

[fiddlesticks]

[Twist] Please, sir, I want some more! [/Twist]
Just one more obscure Korean title that imdb sorely needs to include:
A Light Sleep (가벼운 잠, Gabyeoun Jam)...please see here, here, and/or here.
Thanks in advance!

Sienel, it looks like this one might have been overlooked, or at least I can't find it. Using the imdb-preferred transliteration tool, it would be Ga-byeo-un Jam. Can you please check this one for me?

By the way, the transliteration of this one:

The All-Powerful Romance (최강 로맨스, Choi-kang Ro-maen-seu)

should be Choi-gang lo-maen-seu, not Choi-ga lo-maen-seu as it appears in imdb. The parabolic character in that second syllable acts as an -ng when it is in the bottom position; it is silent only when it is the first character in a syllable. (The transliteration tool supports this.)

Thanks for your invaluable assistance with this stuff.

[Gregory]

There are a couple of missing films by Armand Guerra:
Le Vieux Docker / The Old Docker
Les Misères de l’aiguille

These were shot in 1913 but released in 1914. I have read that the first one has been located but I'm not sure about the second one. The second one starred Musidora in the lead role.

Here are a few links which give some more information if that will help.

http://www.katesharpleylibrary.net/9s4nhh" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Ency ... Armand.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://books.google.com/books?id=gIbE3j ... &q&f=false" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Of the Google book, pages 1-15 deal with Guerra.
Please let me know if you need any more information and I will turn up what I can. Thanks in advance.

[antnield]

David Threlfall isn't listed for his appearance in the original TV version of Alan Clarke's Scum despite playing one of the main parts (Archer). I've attempted to update his entry a few times - but never to any success.

Whilst I'm posting here, there also isn't a single Jeff Keen film listed or, indeed, an entry for the man himself.

[sienel]

re: Lumière - no need for screengrabs at this time. If I have trouble getting anything accepted then I may take you up on your offer. If that's an 'official' DVD release then it might help to have the DVD's distributor, release year, and country of origin.
re: 18 Les bronzes font du surf - This site and this book list Bocal aux poissons rouges as #18. Are you certain of your title?

re: Korean titles - I have A Light Sleep on my to-do list, just haven't gotten to it yet. I sent in the spelling correction for The All-Powerful Romance a couple days ago and it looks like it's been accepted - thanks.

I've added the other requests to my to-dos.


Submitted May 27 (links added June 2)
Lumière ~
5 Arrivée en voiture
13 Balançoires
22 Concert
23 Cavalcade (Char du Soleil)
58 Levée des filets de pêche
59 Labourage
76 Sortie de la pompe
86 Repas des chats
92 Scaphandrier

Already on IMDb
74 Partie de tric-trac

Submitted May 30 (links added June 4)
Lumière ~
93 Scieurs de bois
100 Bataille de femmes (deux femmes seulement)
103 Bonne d’enfants et soldat
104 Boxeurs en tonneaux
114 Géant et nain
117 Patineur grotesque
119 Prestidigitateur

RW Paul ~
A Camp Smithy (Director Unknown, 1899, 1 min)
Aberdeen University Quarter Centenary Celebrations (R.W. Paul, 1906, 31 min)
A Lively Quarter-Day (J.H. Martin, 1906, 5 min)

A Light Sleep (가벼운 잠, Gabyeoun Jam)

Though I am Gone 我雖死去/ Wo sui si qu by Hu Jie 2006

[swo17]

sienel, first of all, many continued thanks for all of your efforts. Please let me know if you need me to take a break from posting in this thread.

If that's an 'official' DVD release then it might help to have the DVD's distributor, release year, and country of origin.

I believe it has only officially been released as a laserdisc, and in Japan. That's really all I know at this point, though if you need me to, I can try to delve a little further. Let me know.

re: 18 Les bronzes font du surf - This site and this book list Bocal aux poissons rouges as #18. Are you certain of your title?

When I went through this set, I recall noticing that it actually separately presented both of these films as being catalog #18. It could take me a while to go through the whole thing again, find both of them amidst the hundreds of films, and verify that this is actually the case. I'm not sure if it's worth going through all that effort for just one title. This was the only instance I recall there being of two films being identified by the same catalog number.

In other news, I have like 50 Mitchell & Kenyon films from the BFI's In Ireland and Edwardian Sports DVDs ready to submit, but I really feel bad about inundating you with more titles. Should I just hold on to them for a while, or post them here and you can get to them when you get to them?

[sienel]

Since so far I haven't had trouble getting the Lumière titles accepted I don't need the laserdisc info at this time. Once I get through the list (estimated date of completion: June 30th 2015 ) if there are any I couldn't get in I might need you to dig up some info on that release.

I'm going to hold off on Les bronzes font du surf for the time being. Google doesn't find any sites (other than your original post) mentioning that title and the only Google Books reference I see doesn't allow previews so I can't tell exactly what it's saying - or if it's even about the film in question. Without any confirming links I don't have much hope that the IMDb will accept it.

Feel free to post the missing Mitchell & Kenyon titles (along with which set they came from) - just know that it'll be awhile before I get them all in.

David Threlfall isn't listed for his appearance in the original TV version of Alan Clarke's Scum despite playing one of the main parts (Archer). I've attempted to update his entry a few times - but never to any success.

Whilst I'm posting here, there also isn't a single Jeff Keen film listed or, indeed, an entry for the man himself.

I have the BBC Scum in my Netflix queue - will update the IMDb page once I've have the DVD on hand.

Just as an aside: I really wish the BFI would include a listing of all the films included on their DVD set releases. It's very time-consuming searching for a review or an online store that actually mentions the film names. They didn't on their Mitchell & Kenyon sets and they didn't on their Jeff Keen set. I did eventually track down online DVD reviews and store listings that listed the individual films for all three sets, but I don't understand why the BFI doesn't feel that information is pertinent.


On my current list of to-dos:
~230 Lumière films
2 Armand Guerra / Cinéma du Peuple films
~45 Jeff Keen films
Scum cast update
~50 Mitchell & Kenyon films

[swo17]

Okay, here goes. These should all go under the Mitchell & Kenyon Production Company:

FROM MITCHELL & KENYON IN IRELAND

Cattle Market in Derry (1902)
Congregation Leaving Jesuit Church of St. Francis Xavier, Dublin (1902)
Panorama of College Green, Dublin (1902)
Congregation Leaving St. Mary's Pro-Cathedral, Dublin (1901)
Wexford Railway Station (1902)
Life in Wexford (1902)
Ride from Blarney to Cork on Cork & Muskerry Light Railway (1902)
Albert Quay in Cork (1902)
Tram Ride from King Street to Patrick's Bridge, Cork (1902)
Views of the Grand Parade, Cork (1902)
Workers Leaving Lee Boot Factory Dwyer & Co. Ltd, Cork (1902)
Cork Fire Brigade Turning Out (1902)
Congregation Leaving St. Patrick's Church in Cork (1902)
Congregation Leaving St. Mary's Dominican Church in Cork (1902)
Regiments Returned from Boer War to Victoria Barracks, Cork (1902)
Preparation of the Cork Exhibition Grounds and Erection of Buildings (1902)
Panorama of Cork Exhibition Grounds (1902)
Trade Procession at Opening of Cork Exhibition (1902)
Arrival of VIPs for Official Opening of Cork Exhibition (1902)
Lord Mayor of Cork Arriving for Official Opening of Cork Exhibition (1902)
The Visit of the Duke of Connaught C-I-C Forces in Ireland and Prince Henry of Prussia to Cork Exhibition (1902)
Ambush II at Eyrefield Lodge, Curragh (1902)
Sports Day at Queen's College Ground, Cork (1902)
Two-oared Boat Race, Sundays Well, Cork (1902)
Crews Practicing on River Lee at Cork Regatta (1902)
Final of International Cup at Cork Regatta Between Leander and Berlin (1902)
England v. Ireland at Manchester (1905)
Wales v. Ireland at Wrexham (1906)

FROM MITCHELL & KENYON - EDWARDIAN SPORTS

Manchester to Blackpool Road Race (1903)
Day School Sports at Park Avenue, Bradford (1902)
Manchester and Salford Harriers' Cyclists' Procession (1901)
Tynemouth Swimming Gala in the Haven, North Shields (1901)
Trotting Match at Springfield Park, Wigan (1904)
Kingston Rowing Club at Practice (1902)
Final of International Cup at Cork Regatta Between Leander and Berlin (1902)
AAA Championships at Fartown, Huddersfield (1901)
Champion Athletes at Birmingham (1902)
Manchester Wheelers' Annual Race Meet (1901)
Arthur Mold Bowling to A.N. Hornby (1901)
Newcastle United v. Liverpool (1901)
Rotherham Town v. Thornhill (1902)
Everton v. Liverpool (1902)
Notts County v. Middlesbrough (1902)
Bradford City v. Gainsborough Trinity (1903)
Blackburn Rovers v. Aston Villa (1904)
Preston North End v. Wolverhampton Wanderers (1904)
Bolton v. Burton United (1904-5)
Preston North End v. Aston Villa (1905)
Sunderland v. Leicester Fosse (1907)
Salford v. Batley (1901)
Oldham v. Swinton (1901)
Hunslet v. Leeds (1901)
Halifax v. Salford (1901)
Warrington v. St. Helens (1901)
Hull FC v. Hull Kingston Rovers (1902)
Hull Kingston Rovers v. Wigan (1902)
Northern Union Challenge Cup Final: Halifax v. Salford (1903)


Thanks again!

[antnield]

Just as an aside: I really wish the BFI would include a listing of all the films included on their DVD set releases. It's very time-consuming searching for a review or an online store that actually mentions the film names. They didn't on their Mitchell & Kenyon sets and they didn't on their Jeff Keen set. I did eventually track down online DVD reviews and store listings that listed the individual films for all three sets, but I don't understand why the BFI doesn't feel that information is pertinent.

sienel, all of the information is included in the attendant booklets. There's quite a number of missing IMDb titles amongst the films present on BFI discs. (Predominantly short films that have appeared on Flipside discs and similar releases, and a large number of documentaries.) Once I've got the chance I'll go through them and post all the info I can here.

[sienel]

Just as an aside: I really wish the BFI would include a listing of all the films included on their DVD set releases. It's very time-consuming searching for a review or an online store that actually mentions the film names. They didn't on their Mitchell & Kenyon sets and they didn't on their Jeff Keen set. I did eventually track down online DVD reviews and store listings that listed the individual films for all three sets, but I don't understand why the BFI doesn't feel that information is pertinent.

sienel, all of the information is included in the attendant booklets. There's quite a number of missing IMDb titles amongst the films present on BFI discs. (Predominantly short films that have appeared on Flipside discs and similar releases, and a large number of documentaries.) Once I've got the chance I'll go through them and post all the info I can here.

Sure, but the attendant booklets aren't available online so don't do much for me when I'm trying to submit information to the IMDb. What's really goofy is that they do spell out the extras - they just don't think the names of the individual films are important. But then Criterion sometimes does the exact same thing (though not always).

Anyways, feel free to post any titles missing from the IMDb and I'll eventually submit them.

[antnield]

They could possibly be backed up with the information on the BFI's own SIFT database, or their Screenonline entries where applicable. I can link to each of those when I post some of the titles here if that would help.

[swo17]

A couple of streaming titles mentioned in the pre-1920s list thread that aren't on IMDb:

Die Rose von Rhodesia / The Rose of Rhodesia (Harold Shaw, 1918, 81 min)

Prinsengracht / Prinsengracht Canal (Emile Lauste, 1899, 2 min)

[sienel]

Titles submitted May 27th are now up on IMDb - links have been added to the previous post.

Submitted June 2 (links added June 4)
Armand Guerra / Cinéma du Peuple ~
Le Vieux Docker / The Old Docker
Les Misères de l’aiguille

Mitchell & Kenyon ~
Cattle Market in Derry (1902)
Congregation Leaving Jesuit Church of St. Francis Xavier, Dublin (1902)
Panorama of College Green, Dublin (1902)
Congregation Leaving St. Mary's Pro-Cathedral, Dublin (1901)
Wexford Railway Station (1902)
Life in Wexford (1902)
Ride from Blarney to Cork on Cork & Muskerry Light Railway (1902)
Albert Quay in Cork (1902)
Tram Ride from King Street to Patrick's Bridge, Cork (1902)
Views of the Grand Parade, Cork (1902)
Workers Leaving Lee Boot Factory Dwyer & Co. Ltd, Cork (1902)
Cork Fire Brigade Turning Out (1902)
Congregation Leaving St. Patrick's Church in Cork (1902)
Congregation Leaving St. Mary's Dominican Church in Cork (1902)
Regiments Returned from Boer War to Victoria Barracks, Cork (1902)
Preparation of the Cork Exhibition Grounds and Erection of Buildings (1902)
Panorama of Cork Exhibition Grounds (1902)
Trade Procession at Opening of Cork Exhibition (1902)
Arrival of VIPs for Official Opening of Cork Exhibition (1902)
Lord Mayor of Cork Arriving for Official Opening of Cork Exhibition (1902)
The Visit of the Duke of Connaught C-I-C Forces in Ireland and Prince Henry of Prussia to Cork Exhibition (1902)
Ambush II at Eyrefield Lodge, Curragh (1902)
Sports Day at Queen's College Ground, Cork (1902)
Two-oared Boat Race, Sundays Well, Cork (1902)
Crews Practicing on River Lee at Cork Regatta (1902)
Final of International Cup at Cork Regatta Between Leander and Berlin (1902)
England v. Ireland at Manchester (1905)
Wales v. Ireland at Wrexham (1906)

Jeff Keen ~
Cineblatz (1967, 3 mins)


Submitted June 3 (links added June 8)
Mitchell & Kenyon ~
Manchester and Salford Harriers' Cyclists' Procession (1901)
Tynemouth Swimming Gala in the Haven, North Shields (1901)
Manchester Wheelers' Annual Race Meet (1901)
Arthur Mold Bowling to A.N. Hornby (1901)
Newcastle United v. Liverpool (1901)
AAA Championships at Fartown, Huddersfield (1901)
Salford v. Batley (1901)
Oldham v. Swinton (1901)
Hunslet v. Leeds (1901)
Halifax v. Salford (1901)
Warrington v. St. Helens (1901)
Day School Sports at Park Avenue, Bradford (1902)
Kingston Rowing Club at Practice (1902)
Champion Athletes at Birmingham (1902)
Rotherham Town v. Thornhill (1902)
Everton v. Liverpool (1902)
Notts County v. Middlesbrough (1902)
Hull FC v. Hull Kingston Rovers (1902)
Hull Kingston Rovers v. Wigan (1902)
Northern Union Challenge Cup Final: Halifax v. Salford (1903)
Manchester to Blackpool Road Race (1903)
Bradford City v. Gainsborough Trinity (1903)
Trotting Match at Springfield Park, Wigan (1904)
Blackburn Rovers v. Aston Villa (1904)
Preston North End v. Wolverhampton Wanderers (1904)
Bolton v. Burton United (1904-5)
Preston North End v. Aston Villa (1905)
Sunderland v. Leicester Fosse (1907)

On my current list of to-dos:
~230 Lumière films
~45 Jeff Keen films (waiting for IMDb to list Keen's name before submitting the rest of these)
Scum cast update
2 pre-1920 streaming films
9 Korean shorts (requested last year by fiddlesticks, before I had access to a transliteration tool)

[jbaart]

Is there any way to check the status of one's contributions? I added two Lotte Reiniger films (Cinderella, Primrose version and The Frog Prince, '61 version) and was wondering if there's a better method than waiting for an e-mail from the IMDb staff or looking at her page.

[sienel]

Is there any way to check the status of one's contributions? I added two Lotte Reiniger films (Cinderella, Primrose version and The Frog Prince, '61 version) and was wondering if there's a better method than waiting for an e-mail from the IMDb staff or looking at her page.

You can check the Processing Times page. Right now under the "New/alternate titles" section it says

At the moment, the oldest title in the system waiting for processing is from 19 May. Be aware that once a title is approved, it can take up to two days for that title to appear on the live site.

So I know that any titles I submitted prior to May 19th should be online (or will be in a day or two) or were rejected. That page also gives you a heads-up if there are any pending delays in any department.

But with new titles I typically just wait a week to ten days then do a search for the title.

[jbaart]

Thanks, that's better than nothing. I wonder though why they don't just add some kind of status icon to your update history. You can't even tell if your one year old contribution was accepted or not without checking the actual entry.

[sienel]

Thanks, that's better than nothing. I wonder though why they don't just add some kind of status icon to your update history. You can't even tell if your one year old contribution was accepted or not without checking the actual entry.

They say that since a single submission could be spread out amongst several IMDb workers (as they have separate people handling titles vs cast vs trivia vs directors vs companies vs camera/electric etc) and they're processing things on different schedules it makes it prohibitively difficult to do a status-sort of thing.

I used to maintain a massive spreadsheet documenting everything I submitted, going through it each week to check up on what had been accepted and what was still pending. Once it got to the point where I was spending more time checking up on things than I was spending submitting data (let alone watching actual movies) I decided not to bother. Now I only confirm that any new titles I send in have been added, and with any other data just cross my fingers and hope it gets accepted.

Amazingly though the new titles I sent in two days ago are already online.