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Tuesday, September 17th, 2024 10:33 AM

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Adding production/distribution companies to old films

Please revise and approved the rejected items in the following submissions:

240913-130310-512000
240913-132334-485000
240913-132724-186000
240913-133157-225000
240913-134633-803000
240913-135053-610000

240916-133609-001000

All of them are the production and distribution companies of the titles in question.

I've provided bona fide information to back-up these additions, beyond any shadow of a doubt, from the following authoritative sources:

The Animated Film Encyclopedia: A Complete Guide to American Shorts, Features and Sequences, 1900–1999, 2d ed.

and the Encyclopedia of American Short Films, 1926–1959:


https://mcfarlandbooks.com/product/the-animated-film-encyclopedia/

https://mcfarlandbooks.com/product/encyclopedia-of-american-short-films-1926-1959/

Also, the official MPAA certificate books kept at the Academy Library:

https://collections.new.oscars.org/Details/Archive/70198233

Here are the screen grabs from the books and documents in question:

https://ibb.co/3fkP0G4

https://ibb.co/jkKJ3Xm

https://ibb.co/tCZ0BDm

https://ibb.co/mzRN3VT

I realize and understand the strict measures put into place recently for this kind of data, but in this particular case, we're talking about short films from the 1930s, and the only reliable information available is the one that I'm providing from the only bonafide sources that can be found today.

Also, in some of these cases, the production and distribution companies are practically the only information that can be found about the films in question, so depriving these titles of this basic data is tantamount to eliminate the only possible way to truly identify them and/or further investigate them.

Furthermore, some of these titles belong to generic series of shorts such as "Struggle for life" or "A Musical Romance", etc, so they obviously have the same production companies and distributors than the other entries in the same series, which is just another indirect but equally reliable source to back-up these additions.

In sum, please approve this bona fide data based on the incontrovertible sources that I provide.

"Like all workaholics, I am profoundly lazy." --Aki Kaurismäki

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Hi @Tonio_Fraga -

I have reported the processing errors, since the submissions were for the entire title I can't resubmit on your behalf, please resubmit and post here your references, I will make sure to approve.

Cheers!

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@Tonio_Fraga​ Hi!

I have resubmitted all on your behalf and approved.

Regarding

#240917-132244-014000

#240917-223509-777000

You would need to resubmit since it's the same case as before.

Cheers!

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Thanks @Bethanny 

Here's the next batch:

240918-122701-963000

240918-122705-760000

240920-105307-830000

240920-105430-650000

240920-105630-087000

240920-105756-348000

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Hello,

I have re submitted 240918-122701-963000 and 240918-122705-760000, all of submissions were approved, the changes will be live shortly!

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Next batch of rejected production companies (funny how distributors are accepted whereas production companies are not, all based on the same evidence):

#240925-120233-349000 

#240925-120236-049000

#240925-120239-184000

#240925-120241-896000

#240925-120244-166000
Also, you might as well make sure these new 5 ones get approved the first time around:
#240927-120657-068000
#240927-120700-234000
#240927-121853-557000 
#240927-121856-494000
#240927-121858-730000

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I have re submitted and approved the pending contributions, changes will be live on the site shortly!