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Laksmi Breathwaite
Jedi Master Film Handler

Posts: 771
From: Las Vegas
Registered: Nov 2010

posted June 19, 2012 11:43 PM

Hey I agree Hugh not this Lad. My movies are all in my head and up right in boxes so my friends read the titles and they can pick. I must have countless VHS, dvds,Bluerays, Super 8mm films none of those are listed,but I know the
titles I've bought or have. I guess I have a brain like a computer. And I can see some in boxes or on my shelves. But Austin why do you want to know about cataloging ? You only have a few films and you are a young collector with little money and only toys to trade. Any you guys want to donate to Austin's collection with any films you can spare?

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Dino Everette
Phenomenal Film Handler

Posts: 1535
From: Long Beach, CA USA
Registered: Dec 2008

posted June 20, 2012 12:46 AM

I couldn't possibly remember everything, and I think having a catalog is a great idea, because not only can you keep track of what you have but where and when you got it, how much you paid for it, when you use it, what condition it is in, when you repaired it, when you sold it on to someone else...I like to use Filemaker because it is easily modifiable to include what you want. If Austin started cataloging when he is beginning it will only be easier in the long run....I will say though that catalogs can also be detrimental, since i was cataloging my projectors as well until my wife said "YOU HAVE 38 PROJECTORS?" so I stopped cataloging them....That was almost 5 years ago. I don't want her to know how many I have now...

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Austin Holcomb
Jedi Master Film Handler

Posts: 745
From: New Bloomington, OH, USA
Registered: Mar 2011

posted June 20, 2012 12:50 AM

Ive started getting color and sound. My collection is growing.
Austin(:

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Hugh Thompson Scott
Film God

Posts: 3063
From: Gt. Clifton,Cumbria,England
Registered: Jan 2012

posted June 20, 2012 04:02 AM

It's come to something when some folks need a computer to let
them know when they last watched something.By the time you
have finished with all the fine detail,tapping in film stock,directors
etc,it's time for bed.I think I would rather like Laksmi be watching
the film than doing all the pointless stuff,that's when it starts to
become a fixation.

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Winbert Hutahaean
Film God

Posts: 5468
From: Nouméa, New Caledonia
Registered: Jun 2003

posted June 20, 2012 07:12 AM

quote:
My movies are all in my head and up right in boxes so my friends read the titles and they can pick. I must have countless VHS, dvds,Bluerays, Super 8mm films none of those are listed,but I know the titles I've bought or have. I guess I have a brain like a computer.

Laksmi, how are you sure that (if) you have either in your collection:

- Mouse Trouble, Mouse Comes to Dinner, Mouse For Sale, Mouse in the House, or Mouse Cleaning?

- or is the Mouse Trouble you have(or Mouse Comes to Dinner, Mouse For Sale, Mouse in the House, Mouse Cleaning) sound or silent?

- or is the Mouse Trouble you have(or Mouse Comes to Dinner, Mouse For Sale, Mouse in the House, Mouse Cleaning) perfect color, faded color or B/W?

- or is the Mouse Trouble you have(or Mouse Comes to Dinner, Mouse For Sale, Mouse in the House, Mouse Cleaning) from MGM, Walton, Film Office or Red Fox?

- or do I have Mouse Cleaning or Tom et Jerry font le ménage (which is actually the same film)

and..... the combination of the above confusion:

- or Do I have Mouse Trouble or Mouse Comes to Dinner, Mouse For Sale, Mouse in the House, Mouse Cleaning which is from MGM, Walton, Film Office or Red Fox, and does it have perfect Color, faded or B/W, and it is Sound or Silent, and .... a Ha... I found a new title "Tom et Jerry font le ménage" ?

It is waste our time to remember it and will be really helpful if we have the list.

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Austin Holcomb
Jedi Master Film Handler

Posts: 745
From: New Bloomington, OH, USA
Registered: Mar 2011

posted June 20, 2012 07:15 AM

I see how that can get very confusing [Razz]

Austin

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Hugh Thompson Scott
Film God

Posts: 3063
From: Gt. Clifton,Cumbria,England
Registered: Jan 2012

posted June 20, 2012 07:20 AM

Quite simple Winbert, I don't know about Laksmi,I don't collect
that many cartoons.Problem solved,and anyway a notepad
solves that quite easily.

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Martin Davey
Film Handler

Posts: 94
From: Southampton UK
Registered: Dec 2011

posted June 20, 2012 07:47 AM

If you do collect a lot of shorts it is not a 'problem solved'. Are you saying that you just forget most of your collection exists to avoid cataloging/remembering them. You need an electronic database for that information, which solves the problem very easily.....or carry around a very big and heavy notepad around with you that cant be updated in a practical way.

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Hugh Thompson Scott
Film God

Posts: 3063
From: Gt. Clifton,Cumbria,England
Registered: Jan 2012

posted June 20, 2012 08:11 AM

Martin,ever heard of alphabetical order.We are talking amateur
film collectors here, not the BFI.like I said,problem solved.Do you
list every book or dvd you own.Common sense dictates no,you
know what you've bought or should do.I've never bought the
same film or dvd twice by mistake,and no thanks to computers
or anything else.

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Laksmi Breathwaite
Jedi Master Film Handler

Posts: 771
From: Las Vegas
Registered: Nov 2010

posted June 22, 2012 01:50 AM

Hey I have a lot of Cartoons but I know what I have. I like Hugh have never bought a film in any media I allready have.

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Martin Davey
Film Handler

Posts: 94
From: Southampton UK
Registered: Dec 2011

posted June 22, 2012 03:16 AM

Hugh,
I am sorry that you find technology so threatening, as very comment from you in this thread seems to indicate.

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Hugh Thompson Scott
Film God

Posts: 3063
From: Gt. Clifton,Cumbria,England
Registered: Jan 2012

posted June 22, 2012 08:52 AM

Martin,technology isn't so much threatening, as to be seen as
the be all of everything.Things do get done in this world without
a computer being involved,Indeed when a machine has to inform someone when was the last time they viewed a particular print
I think things are being taken a bit far.It's like personal organisers
that were all the rage,then some folk need organising,as coherent
thought,memory and the ability to think on ones feet seem old
fashioned.

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