#Searchable Films

[garvescope]

The Real Path to Indie Film Success? Searchability.

Every January, indie filmmakers hold their breath. Because Sundance. The buzziest titles get six-figure deals, glowing press, and social media love. It’s the dream! Validation, visibility, and maybe even a shot at the big leagues. But for every film that premieres in Park City, hundreds more are just as good, just as heartfelt, just as bold… and completely invisible. Here’s the hard truth: your…

[orlaite]

T.E Lawrence's SEVEN PILLARS OF WISDOM (1922 Oxford Edition)

David Lean's LAWRENCE OF ARABIA (1962)

[dapurinthos]

this year's jsc choice versions:

all-female cast. i haven't actually seen this yet, i just found it on a youtube search today. i'm looking forward to starting it after i finish with the original film version, but i have listened to the album and loved it.

latest tour production. i saw this version when it was (very) briefly in toronto in december 2021, before the run was cut short due to cast & crew testing positive for covid. fantastic set, amazing costuming for king herod, tyrone huntley as judas (after he originated this version in the regent's park open air theatre) which was an experience (the cast in this video is from 2022 - 2023, not the cast i saw).

[keepthemacramesecret]

oh infuriating i think ive found a raffles adaptation iv never seen mentioned but consequently. i cannot find any further information on it.

who are youu :(

(motion picture news may 1925)

[lackadaisycats]

Miss Tracy, do u have any advice on researching a specific time period?

(also I know u probably won't see this, but I love your art and you are awesome)

Look for books about the time period, but also books written contemporaneous to the time period, whether fiction or non-fiction. Check used book stores for out of print gems at good prices.

If photography was a technology that existed in the time period you're researching, look for photos of people doing everyday things. Take in the context, the geography, the economic situation. Look at how they're dressed and what their clothes say about them.

Newspaper archives. Sometimes newspapers of the past are free to browse. Sometimes you have to pay for access. Old shopping catalogue collections - if they exist for your time period - are great too.

Documentary films about time periods, or specific events in a given time period can be useful, even if only for a broad overview.

Museum exhibits - helpful whether you're looking for famous paintings or artifacts of past civilizations in a world renowned institution, or trying to dig up something impossibly unique in an oddity denture museum in some forgotten place in the Midwest. If you can't go in person, check online. You can find museums with vintage clothing or household appliance collections from even a few decades ago. Some museums have extensive, searchable online collections too. Take the Metropolitan Museum for instance.

If you can visit historical sites relevant to your area of interest, do it! Do those little guided walking tours. Do the ghost tours even - they're often fairly history-centric with some paranormal folklore for added spice. Sometimes they get you access to places you otherwise can't enter. Check historical societies local to cities or towns of interest.

If you need information about something deeply specific, check the internet for communities that form around that deeply specific topic. I've found tidbits of useful info searching around old forum posts from radio enthusiasts, Model T owners, and people who collect old telephone booths. (Granted, it's getting harder to search for this kind of stuff nowadays.)

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Be careful of AI trash, whether it's generative images, text descriptions, or entire articles. Don't rely much on film or television for accuracy. Some things are more interested in being accurate than others, but there's almost always some artistic license taken. If you're trying to be particularly accurate about something, triple check it for confirmation. Misinformation has had a way of spreading like insidious mildew even before AI started disseminating it with delusory authority.

Lastly, if you don't enjoy doing this kind of historical research like a weird little detective-creature, consider loosening up on the 'historical' aspect of your writing. It's okay to not focus on historicity in your fiction. But if you're going to dive in whole-hog on history, bear in mind it's an ongoing, often time-consuming adventure in information-finding.

(Thank you for the kind words!)

[catastrophic-crisis]

The Video Game History Foundation just launched early access to its (digital) library, which contains development materials, artwork, press kits, promotional materials, and more relating to video games - some of which has never been public before - as well as "Over 1500 full-text searchable out-of-print video game magazines—including game industry trade magazines rarely available to the public."

More magazines ranging from Game Informer to Girl Gamer (the short-lived official Nintendo magazine) linked here.

Some highlights of the digitized library are the Cyan collection (the developer of the Myst adventure game series), which boasts over 200 videotapes and audio recordings including original FMV filming footage and "never-before-seen" interviews with the development team, Fromsoft promotional materials (given with a blessing from Fromsoft to be donated and including materials from Bloodborne to Kuon), and guidebooks and emphemera from video game events like the Electronic Entertainment Expo.

The library collections contain notes that designate whether materials are reproducible (for use in books, videos, etc) or restricted use, if that is a concern.

[secondbeatsongs]

:D

it's so funny trying to talk to people about Speed Racer (2008), because it's like...what if there was a guy who drove a car so well that he defeated capitalism

[hoovesandfloorpaws]

Hello there💗 I don't know if my memory is right, but I'm trying to find one video that I think Louis is filming Harry when he just waking up on a bed, and then he says Harry ~ in a cute voice. I think I've seen it before, but I can't find it anywhere! Can you please help me, I adore this footage very much🥺

hey lovebug,

oh gosh, this kind of rings a bell, but not enough that I was able to find a video, I'm sorry. :(

The only ones of Harry waking up / waking someone up I could find were these, but they're all pretty widely known, I think.

This part is from a longer docu (from Part 5 of Year In The Making from 2011) about their first year together as a band, where they return to Robin's bungalow to again spend time together there (if you haven't yet, do yourself a favour and watch the entire 8 minute video, it's so, so lovely 💖 and it also made me tear up a little)

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Lights Camera Unseen Action - X-Factor - Week 10 (found this with the help of the amazing searchable video master collection made by @callmeathief 💕) Niall and Harry waking up starts at 0:64, but the entire video includes super cute 1D moments

look at these babies 🥹

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and of course the part from This Is Us from 2013:

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(also this one from 8 Sep 2012 is funny as hell and I hadn't seen it in forever, so i'm adding it)

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but that's really all I could find.

Does anyone else know which video the lovely anon means? @voxina or @fookinhellcurlyyy perhaps? 🥺

EDIT: Voxina DID find it! HERE 💖

thank you in advance and thank you, anon, for the kind question x 💖

[toomanytookas]

Original image credit: Tantor Films

Hi friends,

A few months ago, I noticed that I was having a hard time keeping track of all of the challenges and projects that folks were organising and making fanworks for.

It made me wish there were a central place where I could go to find them again and because I'm a bit of a nerd for metadata and information organisation, I decided to do something!

The PPCU Fandom Projects Database is now online.

There are listings for both current/upcoming projects as well as masterlists of past projects in the fandom. I’ve put together a little guide here.

More info below the cut. I'm also tagging project organisers so they know they're listed and can decide whether they want to be or not. 💕

What is it?

This is a Notion site where I’ve gathered project information and masterlist links. It also makes different bits of information (such as deadlines and submission types) more readily filterable and searchable than when in the tumblr post format.

What gets listed?

I'm defining a ‘project’ as any type of fandom activity in which someone (the ‘organiser’) issues a call out to the fandom to create, submit, or otherwise participate in something that they are putting together. This is separate from individual rec lists that people have created that are their personal reading activity — the key concept is that multiple people have been invited to contribute information and/or fanworks and/or are engaging in other activities that make the project possible.

I have a project!

If you have a past, current, or upcoming project that you would be interested in seeing listed, feel free to tag or DM me, or you can use the tag #PPCUfandomproject and I will add it as soon as I can. I will also endeavour to add projects as I see them.

It's not on tumblr?!

I recognise that taking this information out of tumblr might not be to everyone's comfort level, so please if your project is listed and you don't want it on there, let me know and I will remove it ASAP. Projects that have been included thus far have been tagged below and I will continue to tag folks when things are added so that there is never an instance where something will be on the website without the project creator being informed about it. If it helps to know, the site is not being search engine indexed.

The listing of my project isn’t accurate/I want to change some of the information.

Just let me know what you’d like me to change and I’ll be happy to do it. 💕

Inspiration.

This was inspired by a project that existed in one of my past fandoms as well as the amazing work in the PPCU space by folks such as @littlemisspascal, @fuckyeahdindjarin, @secretelephanttattoo, and @jolapeno to create lists and directories that enable us to elevate writers and their work in ways that tumblr doesn't necessarily allow for without help.

Project organisers that have been included thus far (Again please lmk if you do not want your project listed!!! 💕)

@almostfoxglove @alyssamariag @amanitacowboy @burntheedges @chaotic-mystery

@chronically-ghosted @dancingtotuyo @dieterbravobrainrotclub @fuckyeahdindjarin @guiltyasdave

@happypedrohours @hellishjoel @iamasaddie @i-own-loki @joelmillerisapunk

@jolapeno @littlemisspascal @magpiepills @mermaidgirl30 @millersflowermarket

@morallyinept @mothandpidgeon @moonlitbirdie @msjarvis @pedgito

@pedropeach @pedrostories @perotovar @pickled-pena @prolix-yuy

@punkshort @romanarose @saradika @schnarfer @secretelephanttattoo

@sp00kymulderr @studioghibelli @the-blind-assassin-12 @tightjeansjavi @tonysopranosrobe

@toxicanonymity @wannab-urs @whocaresstillthelouvre @yopossum @5oh5

@beefrobeefcal

[ali3nboyfriend]

btw. because i’m thinking about it. if you’re an appreciator of art, seriously start downloading art that you enjoy (preferably w the artist’s username or moniker or something searchable attached to it). you never know when a website is just gonna fold or when the artist is gonna stop using it and you will be So Much Happier if you have something you can find them by, esp if they’re a smaller creator. and if they’re digitally wiped from existence you’ll at least have their art still. it won’t disappear with them.

also, on a similar note, to my fellow artists: START SAVING AND COMPILING ART THAT INSPIRES YOU IF YOU AREN’T ALREADY. stuff by other artists online! screencaps of film or animation frames with great composition! photos you like! attach the source to the file name and organize things however you fuckin want BUT SAVE IT I MEAN IT YOU WILL THANK ME LATER

YOU ARE ALLOWED TO DOWNLOAD THIS STUFF. IT'S NOT AGAINST THE RULES.

[millieposes]

[MP] Simblreen Specials - Film Posters

PATREON (free)

Me again! Happy Halloween! As a special Halloween treat I've created the above pose pack and a selection of posters! I wanted to do something a bit different for a simblreen present, but also as a big thank you to everyone who has supported my account so far - I'm extremely grateful for you all and I am blown away by the support I've received in such a short amont of time. These are my first CC items, so please be kind 😅 but i think they do the job! Enjoy!

Includes:

Pose pack: 5 poses based on famous film and TV posters!

Framed posters: a selection of 5 framed film/TV posters all with 3 different frame swatches! That's 15 whole frames!!

Not-Framed Posters: a selection of 5 framed film/TV posters, perfect for decorating a teen telly-phanatic's room!

More spooky vibes!!

Requires: Andrews Pose Player Teleport Any Sim Searchable Pose Player (recommended, highly! search '[MP]' for all my poses) AnnettsSims4Welt's Lips Sofa

No requirements for CC.

T.O.U: the basics - Do not claim as your own - Do not reupload - Do not put behind a paywall Feel free to edit for personal use (i.e. to avoid clipping) but do not do any of the above with the edited poses

Tags, thank you for any and all support! (If you want to be added to the tag list, message me!)

@ts4-poses @alwaysfreecc

[firespirited]

Tomorrow, after over five years of back and forth with public housing and my ISP, we may finally get cable internet.

aand I don't really care any more (that's not just the depression speaking) because of how much adaptation to low bandwidth internet we've had to do.

Feels weird to think "le netflix" would actually work, years after netflix has lost any interest between the price hike and the cancelled shows.

Here are a few random pirate tips for folks with spotty internet:

-mixdrop allows direct downloads so you can search out a streaming site, find the mixdrop link (open frame in a new window if required) and download. streamwish works on chrome and you have to do three captchas per link.

-reddit open directories: peruse it all, learn which links are always empty or down, find one or two reliable sites. Bookmark a seedbox (a drive for torrenting) belonging to someone who uses the smaller 720p files and check it every day.

-fandom folks tend to share google drives that last about a week

-youtube, ok.ru and archive.org aren't searchable for films/series but if you follow threads, people's review tags and recommendations you can find direct links to bookmark for later.

-keep a large list of things to watch: not just new and trending stuff, that way you can be delighted when that 1997 flick falls in your lap. I use google keep and docs for large lists of bookmarks and names.

It's also about training your brain to enjoy things that are late and out of date. There are fandoms that stay awake and ready to analyse the series you just devoured and want to share about and others that have rave reviews with zero follow up. It's like learning to go to the cinema and museums alone: it's very different from a group or fandom experience but doesn't have to be lonely. If you're used to watching films as a shared experience (or shared later with an online fandom) then watching solo can feel more like reading a book.

[cinemaocd]

10 people I want to know me better

got tagged by @kaelang12, THANKS

last song:

last book: The Letters of Stephen Gardiner.

last movie: Blue Velvet (1986)

I don't know how I forgot to spend three paragraphs on Dorothy in Blue Velvet on my lynch post earlier last week. I rewatched it and I have a lot of thoughts, but mainly, Jeffrey's comically naive question, "WHY DO MEN LIKE FRANK EXIST?!" is the whole point. Men like Frank are not born that way, they are made, through neglect and abuse. Sir why did you give this monster such wonderful taste in pop music? It's a movie after which you need a shower but also a glass of milk because of the overly sweet ending.

last tv show: M*A*S*H, Tuttle (1970), our family's ultimate pudding TV. Just one joke after another rapid fire, Hawk and Trap in full on flirt mode, Alan Alda's blue eyes in tuttle's funeral...HOLY SHIT SIR STOP. Henry's legit tears. The whole thing is perfection, why we love the show. We reached for it after Blue Velvet LOL...

sweet/spicy/savory: sweet probably...hardest thing to stick to in my "nutrition is self care" diet. I like fruit and a chocolate chip buckwheat pancake with syrup. I don't think I should give it up. Maybe just eat a salad for lunch, lol.

relationship status: Married, 23 year this summer. We have a son who turns 19 in a short while

last thing i googled: "searchable text letters of stephen steven gardiner"...

looking forward to: doing some writing, watching a film with friends online, burrowing in for a chilly evening with pizza with the fam and the final part of our annual Trylogia rewatch.

Yeah that's right. Spending the evening with these babes:

current obsession: Stephen Gardiner, Trylogia, Classic film, writing fic again, self care, yoga, and way too much of the blue hellsite (affectionate).

Ten People I want to know me better:

@ardenrosegarden, @miewmiew77, @historyartthings, @cosmic-walkers, @fuerst-von-argot, @mackdaddyofthecravate, @nicholasvanryn, @dykeofwellington, @mametupa, @cursemewithyourkiss

No pressure but it is nice to have the occasional show and tell as distraction.

Hope you all have a safe and warm holiday weekend.

[thisbluespirit]

How To Find Your (British Actor) Blorbo On The Radio: A Brief Guide

(Disclaimer: British, because the main tool I'm using is the BBC's Genome.)

If you want more of your fave actor, or you love full-cast drama podcasts/audios (and audiobooks/NF content too) here's a guide on how to get your hands on BBC Radio broadcasts.

The BBC have a great free resource called Genome, which has all the Radio Times listings from 1922 to the present day (plus some of the actual articles), and it's searchable. Up until its arrival, it was really hard to do that, so \o/

Not all actors do radio and not everything you find will be obtainable, but it's always worth a try! It's especially likely for actor-blorbos who do other audio work, or theatre (theatre tends not to pay so well, and radio is a handy extra thing that can be more easily slotted in between performances than TV/film.)

Go to Genome, and put your blorbo's name into the search box:

Press search, which will bring back a bunch of results from both radio and TV listings from 1922 up to the current year:

2. Filter down to "radio only" on the sidebar to avoid scrolling through all the TV. At the top of the page you can change the display order to First broadcast (or Availability, if you want it only to bring things currently available to stream on the BBC website), among other options.

I can also cut down on extraneous results by selecting a date range that only covers when my guy was active.

I scroll down until I find something that looks interesting, in this case a proper audio drama, called The Hornblower Story. It's from 1980 and is an adaptation of a well known book. The details give me enough info to search the wider internet, and see if I get lucky...

3. Search the internet and listen to your blorbo act in radio drama!

There are several ways to obtain radio drama online. If you use streaming sites like Audible and Spotify, it may be there, although usually only if it's had a commercial release.

The BBC still broadcast old programmes on the radio, so it might be currently available on their website to stream - and unlike TV, you can listen to BBC Radio anywhere in the world! (If you are in the UK, you can also download and use the BBC Sounds app.) The Genome will usually provide a link for you to go straight there, if that's the case.

However, obviously, most BBC Radio from past decades is not available commercially or being broadcast by the BBC now and some doesn't exist in the archives, or was never recorded (as with TV), but as methods of recording audio at home have been widely available since the 1950s and 60s, there are loads of off-air recordings of radio made by listeners/collectors, and some have freely shared their copies online. Some are in closed forums etc., but three good sites to try first are YouTube, RadioEchoes & the Internet Archive.

I usually start with a Google search - e.g. '"Title" radio' or radio bbc and if that doesn't give me anything add on first "Radio Echoes" and then "Internet archive" to the search.

And I'm in luck! Radio Echoes appear to have the adaptation I'm after. I need to check the broadcast dates to see if they match up & then I can stream or download for free - and hear my blorbo play a stern Admiral for 5 minutes or less, hurrah!

Clicking on the links takes you to a screen where you can press play to stream or right click on the play bar to download the mp3 file to your device. (Click the "Save audio as..." option).

These are archive off-air recordings, so the quality can vary, especially for older programmes.

4. Rinse and repeat with each new likely Genome discovery.

If you find a copy of what you're looking for on the Internet Archive instead, you'll get up a page with a play bar (like the one above), with episodes listed plus details (to varying degrees) below. If you want to stream, just click play and enjoy. If you want to download it, then click on the MP3 files line on the right-hand sidebar, which will then give you an "X no of files" button to click and you can download them to keep.

(You can download all the files, but I usually cut straight to the chase and just nab the MP3s.)

Sometimes the BBC have released a commercial audiobook. In those cases, if you already use audio/music streaming subscription sites like Audible or Spotify, you should be able to find it there.

If you don't, or you want to buy a download, I've found the best option (weirdly!) (for UK users, at any rate) is to get the audiobook up at Penguin Books, which links to various paid subscription streaming and download options, so you can find the best one for you (and you know it's been recced by a hopefully reputable source.)

Last year, I wanted to buy Vivat Rex, the BBC's landmark dramatisation of all the English history plays rolled into one giant starry-cast Jacobean audio serial, and successfully used this route. (I'm very old by internet terms and still like listening via MP3 files on my MP3 player, as long as it survives.)

Pretty much the only affordable download option I've found so far I got courtesy of Penguin's links to Hive. (But this may be a UK only option.)

If what you're looking for seems likely to exist even if you can't find it by any of these methods - keep trying! New things are being added daily to all these websites, and the BBC cycle round old shows all the time.

And if you want to go deeper, there are closed forums etc. for radio enthusiasts where you need to make an account, but you may then be able to torrent or download an even wider variety of things.

Of course, whether or not your blorbo has been in anything good or any radio at all will depend on them, but I hope this guide will help enable you to find out!

YouTube, Radio Echoes, the Internet Archive and Old Time Radio all have radio from other countries too. So while the BBC Genome can't help you with anywhere outside the UK, the other links here can be good places to look around and browse for things you might be interested in.

You can of course use the same methods to search for things like a favourite author, or particular plays, to see if the BBC have done any radio adaptations - BBC Radio have done heaps of things that have never been adapted on screen, so it's always worth a look for anything you'd be into.

Radio Echoes is browsable as well as searchable, and while Internet Archive is a bit less so, there are some excellent collections you can look through, like the Saturday Night Theatre collection, and the BBC Radio Shows listings.

[lackadaisycats]

I’m so sorry if you’ve already answered this somewhere, but how do you design your characters?

I’ve been trying to make an OC from the prohibition era and it turns out there’s basically nothing to work with for men’s outfits, so I’m curious how you made this many that look unique and fitting to the characters

There is so much to work with, though! You will tend to find more of a focus on variety in women's fashion, but there is still quite a lot of menswear to ogle too. I suppose it's just a matter of searching out ideas and inspiration in the rights corners. Here are a few suggestions:

Old Clothing Catalogues -

Collections from Sears-Roebuck and other popular clothing retailers are pretty easy to find compiled into relatively inexpensive books, or just floating online.

A fair bit of it is in the public domain now.

--Here's an entire 1922 catalogue of stuff to flip through.

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Contemporary Artwork -

Some phenomenal illustrators were working in this field amidst the "Golden Age of Illustration" and featured prominently on the covers of magazines and on the ads inside. There was a lot of emphasis on fashion.

Collier's and The Saturday Evening Post are a couple of the more prominent and easily searchable resources. The costuming on the cover art always has a lot of personality.

There's Rockwell, of course, and it's almost impossible to go wrong with J. C. Leyendecker. He's probably best known for his Arrow Collar ad art, but even his sock ads are like…

There were numerous other amazing and influential illustrators working at the time too. Here's a list of some of them. Here's a bonus Henry Raleigh featuring some of his fabulously-dressed people.

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Blogs and Articles -

There are so many of them! If you want historical accuracy, be wary of write-ups pulling all of their references from film and television. There's nothing wrong with using those for inspiration if you aren't too concerned with historicity, but there are some pretty comprehensive and well-researched things out there with more of an eye on actual fashion history too:

--Gentleman's Gazette - What Men Really Wore in the 1920s

--The Fashionisto - 1920s Men's Fashion

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Digital Collections -

There are numerous digital historic image collections stemming from universities, museums, libraries, and the government that are free to peruse too.

--The Metropolitan Museum has a searchable catalog of exhibits that includes fashion and photos

--Here's some things from the New York Public Library

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Photos at Large -

If you aren't sure where to start, image searching for any of Hollywood's early celebrities will typically turn up a bevy of production stills and promotional photography featuring a variety of fashions. Here's a random Getty images search for Harold Lloyd. A lot of standard 3 piece suits, but a lot of stuff with added character too.

Photography was generally quite accessible by the 1920s, though, and you can find a lot of authentic photos of people from all walks of life, out in the wild wearing all sorts of clothes.

This is by no means the limit to the resources available, but hopefully it'll provide some leaping-off points for designing looks for your characters!

[arconinternet]

IICADOM: The International Institute for the Conservation, Archiving and Distribution of Other People's Memories (Videos, collected by Jasper Rigole, filmed 1939-1990)

More than 1700 home movies sourced from garage sales and flea markets, mostly from Belgium and surrounding countries. You can watch them here, or watch them cut into searchable scenes on the project's website here.