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"TO BE FILED"
We got an email the other day from a movie fan asking us what the category "TO BE FILED" was all about.
I had to think about this for a minute, then it hit me, some people believe the internet works by magic.
Sadly, that is not the case.
Films have to be categorized and coded. Television shows have to be marked as such. There's all sorts of hidden code that makes things work on this bit of code that tells the database to categorize a certain DVD a certain way as in: 02/P/C/60/1966/Comedy:Red Skelton^Television:Comedy^Box Sets:Comedy.
That code tells the computer that this film is a DVD, it has a printed box with artwork, the program is in color, the TV Show is 1 hour long and filmed in 1966. Also it should be listed in the Comedy Section under Red Skelton and in the Television Section as Comedy and in the Box Sets Section as a Comedy too.
You will find a real hodge-podge, assortment, tangle and mishmash of titles in our "To Be Filed" category. If it looks like we took armloads of DVD and VHS movies and dumped them in a basket.
That is very much what we have done.
We have dozens of suppliers who have dozens to thousands of movies in their vaults. They will send us lists of titles but sometimes no description of the movie.
Can you tell me from the title what the movies "The Girl Next To Annie Slaydon", "I'm Not Really Me" or "Everything's Bueno" are about? Are they Horror Movies or Classic Romance Television Dramas? You don't know and we don't know.
Therefore it takes some research into the movie or TV show or Television Series to find out what it's about so that we can assign it into our filing system so that when you look at Westerns or Film Noir you get a Western or Film Noir.
Is Young Frankenstien a Horror or a Comedy? Maybe it's a Horror Comedy or a Comedy Horror. Where would you put it?
So when we get a bunch of these movies we just throw them in the TO BE FILED category until we get a moment to look at them and sort them out. Looking at some of the titles and boxes, the answers come pretty easily. "Top Ten Westerns Starring Guys Named Fred" is probably "Westerns" and probably "Box Sets and Collections" but we still have to hunt down lots more information like "Are there Ten Movies or just Ten Guys Named Fred?" Are there any singing cowboys in the bunch, if so is this a Musical entry? Same goes for cowboys doing Comedy... Blazing Saddles anyone?
You can help.
Being the 1950's Television expert that you are, or documentary fan, or Sci-Fi affectionado you can send us an email if you recognize a film and make suggestions about which categories it should go into. We will greatly appreciated your help.
If you would like to help us with our classic movies and television show sorting situation... just drop us an email with the information you have about the film to:
Dan@HOLLYWOODisAsmallTOWN (.com)
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We hope that you have come to our classic movie site to buy old classic movies, serials and television specials and TV series and episodes. Why?
Well, that is easy enough, we want you to buy an old movie or a classic western, maybe a classic science fiction television show or serial because it helps us to stay in business, yes, but it helps us preserve history. It keeps these fabulous films out there so they can be seen and not forgotten or lost.
Our business is classic and hard to find movies, TV, serials, shorts, experimental, indie, lost, found out of print and rare films etc.
We search the country for forgotten gems in old movie theaters, warehouses, garages and barns. We have even found one of a kind movies locked in an old car trunk.
Forgotten. We find that lots of people have an old film because one of their relatives was a silent film movie star or one of the guys in the background in the old western television shows who always got shot off of his horse.
We love classic movies. We love the Americana found captured on celluloid. There is nothing like it. Yes, we know that there are other places that make movies. That is why they are called foreign films. We love foreign film too.
A lot of it is really really good movie making.
These old movies and television shows show us who we are, who we were and who we can be.
Think of Star Trek science fiction becoming science fact next time you walk towards a supermarket door and it opens automatically. The first time you saw that was on Television, Science Fiction TV circa 1966 when Captain Kirk left the bridge of the Enterprise. Oh yeah, and remember the handheld communicators next time you flip open a cellphone.
Remember Lt. Uhura with a Bluetooth in her ear? I guess we could say the same thing for the old serials too. Flash Gordon, Buck Rogers, Radarmen on the Moon etc. They had two way streaming video monitors back in the 1930s. I still have a hard time getting that to work on my PC. (It works just fine on the Mac).
The old Westerns taught us morals. You knew who the good and the bad guys were. Everybody wanted to be a good guy. We knew right from wrong partially because we knew what the cowboys would do on television. You didn't want to disappoint the Lone Ranger, Roy Rogers or Hopalong Cassidy.
Film Noir started in France and a bit in the German cinema. Nobody does Film Noir like Hollywood though. People into Mystery and Crime stories, both movie and TV, love the dark drama. Right v. Wrong, but now the lines aren't so clear.
Also, in Film Noir, it is entirely possible that Wrong might win in the end or the movie might "end wrong". Love them or not, the following is strong and solid.
One challenge we have, oddly enough, is categorizing the films. We are always open to input from you on this just in case we missed something obvious.
We try to put all of our titles nicely into categories. That's like trying to tune a violin, it is kind of an exercise in theory. People who play violin say that you always approach perfect tuning but never quite reach it.
Read this description of a movie plot and tell me exactly which category you would put it into:
A cowboy leading a western bound wagon train away from Civil War torn states sees a flying saucer land while he is scouting dangerous Indian Country along the western frontier. He is captured by aliens and forced into romantic relations with a silent movie starlet kidnapped from the future and brought back thru time.
She was bitten by a vampire on a previous trip and in turn bites our hero. He is frozen cryogenically when a science experiment goes wrong and he is buried in a glacier where, decades later, he is found and thawed by aviators in a lost zeppelin just previous to WWI.
SInce he doesn't age like everyone else, having being bitten by a vampire, he is drafted into war, WWII, as a pilot since he learned how to fly from his glacier rescuers. He falls in love with the General's daughter who turns out to be a jr. crime fighter involved in chasing down some Nazi spies who are holding secret plans to a time travel device.
On a comical trip home to the in-laws he slowly starts to realize that he might be changing into a vampire and avoiding daylight. Two Mormon missionaries riding down the street on bikes have a feeling to stop and give him a blessing and pray over him, which cures him of being a vampire. They celebrate by vacationing at a nearby harbor where he and his girl get involved in saving baby whales that have beached themselves during a red tide.
His girlfriend is diagnosed with a terminal disease too late to save her. To kill his sorrow he visits his geeky friend who puts him in an experimental time machine which sends him back to the past where he gets a job as a cowboy leading a western bound wagon train away from Civil War torn states where he sees a flying saucer...
Get the picture? Where would you put this movie? Which category? Some movies are obvious, some aren't. Some you'd have to put in a dozen different categories. We try to limit it to three.
The best thing to do is just get in and dig. Read the plot descriptions because those tell the most about the movie, serial, TV Series or Television show. There are films on this page that I read the write up on and think I should just go ahead and buy it so I can open it and watch it. I often do, but at some point the lady working at the shoe store has to stop buying shoes. You wouldn't believe the DVD collection I have. Yes, VHS too.
This is the site. This is where all those really great films have gone.
Please buy a movie, TV show or odd little film from us. Send your friends here too.
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Thanks,
Dan
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