From: Adam Hyman (email suppressed)
Date: Thu Nov 03 2005 - 11:26:31 PST
Hi John,
Feel free to do it in your spare time. :-)
More seriously, these are all understaffed and underfinanced organizations.
Most of the online work is from labor of love. Who do you expect to do this
work?
Best regards,
Adam Hyman
On 11/3/05 11:05 AM, "john porter" <email suppressed> wrote:
> To All,
> I would like to see a master list of all these
> filmmakers' names,
> linked to their page at their distributor, with bios &
> complete filmographies, or linked to their website?
>
> Currently:
>
> FLICKER
> List of 200 artists, linked to their websites/pages,
> w/ bios & complete filmographies.
>
> NY COOP
> List of films w/ descriptions, sorted by artist.
> No list of all 863 artists' names w/ links. Just 57.
> Now Philip Hood's site has list of Coop's artists, w/
> links to their films.
> No bios or complete filmographies.
>
> CANYON
> List of its 400 artists.
> Linked to their films at Canyon, w/ descriptions.
> No bios or complete filmographies.
>
> CFMDC
> List of films w/ descriptions, sorted alphabetically.
> Linked to artist's page w/ bio & their films at CFMDC.
> No list of its 639 artists. No complete filmographies.
>
> John Porter, Toronto, Canada
>
>
> More detailed analysis:
>
> FLICKER
> List of 200 media artists, w/ links to their websites
> or Flicker page w/ bios & filmographies.
>
>
> NY FILM-MAKERS' COOP
>
> List of films at Coop, w/ descriptions, sorted by
> artist.
> No list of just artists' names, w/ links to their
> films.
> Difficult to browse by artist. Not user-friendly.
> No internal Search by Artist. Only a google link.
> Says how many films at Coop, but not how many artists
> (863).
> No bios or complete filmographies.
>
> List of 57 artists w/ links to their websites or
> Flicker pages.
> User Friendly.
>
>
> CANYON
>
> List of 400 artists at Canyon,
> w/ links to lists of their films at Canyon, w/
> descriptions.
> User-friendly.
> No Search by Artist linking to Canyon's list of their
> films.
> Says how many films at Canyon, but not how many
> artists (I had to count).
> No bios or complete filmographies.
>
>
> CFMDC
>
> List of films at CFMDC, w/ descriptions, sorted
> alphabetically.
> Each linked to the artist's page w/ bio & list of
> their films at CFMDC.
> No complete filmographies.
> Search by Artist, but no list of the 639 artists.
> Must know artist's name to find easily. Not user
> friendly.
>
> John Porter, Toronto, Canada.
>
>
> --- Philip Hood <email suppressed> wrote:
>
>> All,
>>
>> By popular demand I have added the film-maker's
>> cooperative catalogue into my collection, with
>> added year and author search capabilities. The
>> filmmakers catalogue is already on-line, as you
>> may well know, but again, some frameworkers
>> expressed the desire to be able to search and
>> sort in various ways.
>>
>> http://www.angoleiro.com/fcoop_16mm/
>>
>> It is interesting to know, for instance, that
>> the largest number of films in their catalog
>> were produced in 1969.
>>
>> As an example, you may find the five films the
>> cooperative has of leslie thornton by linking to:
>>
>>
>>
> http://www.angoleiro.com/fcoop.cgi?author=Leslie%20Thornton
>>
>> There were a number of films whose years were
>> not listed (I list as 1000). A number of films
>> also didn't have blurbs. None of Leslie's have
>> a blurb, btw. Should someone be
>> so inclined to write me and the film-maker's
>> cooperative they may be willing to add, and if
>> they do so, I will add. If the fcoop is slower at
>> responding, I can add and ask them to. And the
>> same
>> with any research you may have about the date(s)
>> any of the 506 films listed as year "1000".
>>
>> I have also linked the other location
>> databases at the bottom of each page. Feel free
>> to write me personally with any suggestions
>> you may have. If you know of another collection
>> of films somewhere in the US, please do let
>> me know about them.
>>
>> Thank you and enjoy.
>>
>> ml
>> pth
>>
>>
>>
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