New Schedule
In order to serve you better (or maybe just mix things up) I’m moving around the ‘programming blocks’ at Inventing Situations. There’s still going to be five hours a day of ‘Non-Ephemeral’ films (e.g. feature films and tv shows), they’ll just be playing at different hours. Here’s the new schedule. It can also be found on the info page.
| AM | PM | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 12 | Non-Ephemeral Films | Ephemeral Films | 12 |
| 1 | Ephemeral Films | Non-Ephemeral Films | 1 |
| 2 | Ephemeral Films | 2 | |
| 3 | 3 | ||
| 4 | 4 | ||
| 5 | Non-Ephemeral Films | 5 | |
| 6 | Ephemeral Films | 6 | |
| 7 | Library of Congress | 7 | |
| 8 | Ephemeral Films | 8 | |
| 9 | Non-Ephemeral Films | Non-Ephemeral Films | 9 |
| 10 | Ephemeral Films | Ephemeral Films | 10 |
| 11 | 11 |
I’ve decreased the Library of Congress images to one hour a day since they’re repeating a lot faster than either of the larger collections.
In the coming weeks and months I’ll be tinkering with the schedule a little more:
- Adding another hour of “Non-Ephemeral” films.
- After Thanksgiving, I’ll be adding all of this year’s new to IS turkey-day movies to the regular rotation. There should be at least five this year. I’ll proceed to drop in the rest at some steady rate.
- Bonanza: Six new to IS episodes should start showing up in a month or two. Once those have premiered, the 18 episodes I’ve already run will start appearing.
- Plus, I’m toying with yet another programming block. It’s material that technically could go in with the feature films, but that I think will work better on their own.
While I’m discussing picture sources, thought I’d offer an update on how my campaign to add grabs has been going since I last discussed it:
| Image Count | ||
|---|---|---|
| Source | 5/16/06 | 9/12/06 |
| The Prelinger Archives & The AV Geeks Archive | 24768 | 26009 |
| Stills from LOC, COE and other sources | 2400 | 2466 |
| Feature films (162 films) | 21522 | 27545 |
| Other shorts (cartoons, trailers, tv, serials, etc) | 1840 | 3940 |
Without considering the 1,500+ images I’ve tossed from the ephemeral collection, that’s around 75 grabs a day.
One last thought: Can anybody suggest a better phrase than “Non-Ephemeral Films”. I’m looking for a term that differentiates them from the “ephemeral films”, acknowledges the fact that they conist of more than just feature films (there’s cartoons, tv shows, movie trailers, Three Stooges shorts, and drive in ads in there too), and is less awkward and obscure than “Non-Ephemeral”.
September 13th, 2006 at 12:21 pm
Assorted Vids.
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Uh - it might help if I/we knew exactly what the ‘Ephemeral’ Films are, too. To save their sense of identity.
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Regular Videos.
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Usual Junk. (no, I’m just joking on that one.)
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Scheduled Regular Programming. (variant of ‘Regularly Scheduled Programs’.)
UpSky2
September 13th, 2006 at 2:30 pm
As described over at The Prelinger Archive our (the?) biggest source for them ephemeral films are advertising, educational, industrial, and amateur movies. Maybe the distinction isn’t as important to people just here to cap.
September 14th, 2006 at 3:06 pm
I think (with the above details made clearer), the proper distinction is that ‘non-ephemeral’ films have a story, but the others don’t usually.
‘Dramatised Vids’ versus ‘Ad&Info’ or ‘Assorted Films’ ?
September 14th, 2006 at 9:57 pm
Thanks for the input. I’m starting to get the feeling that I’m a lot more concerned about the distinction than most cappers.
Ad&Info may help people figure out what they’re getting faster, but it may also make the stuff sound even drearier for newcomers. Also note that many ephemeral films, like Young Man’s Fancy are in fact presented like dramas, and others like Overs and Outs have less information in them than an episode of American Idol.
And I can hardly call the block that contains Three Stooges shorts “dramatised vids”.
Maybe I should just name them like TV programs (Playhouse Situations, The Industrial-Educational Complex) and just footnote what the heck they are.