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Monday, September 11th, 2023 8:28 AM

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Duplicate title

It appears somebody took this title

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0027488/reference/

and made a duplicate title and instead of deleting it, just marked everything as archive footage so can a staff member please have the below title deleted? They even used the same art cover as the primary image.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0357580/reference/


Thanks 

Phil

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1 year ago

The running times are quite different, and the keyword feature version of serial seems to indicate the intention behind the second title. I'm not sure if the second title should exist.

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1 year ago

I didn't even check the running time. What most likely happened is in the 1960s some local stations tried to patch these old serials together and run them on local television  and changed the titles for syndication which sadly showcases why it should be deleted further because it was a serial that lasted 328 minutes but somebody when the created the profile just transferred all of the uncredited and credited cast list over and probably 50% of those people didn't even appear since it was edited down from over 5 hours down to a little under an hour and a half.

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1 year ago

Hi @phillip -

I do see that it was released afterwards as a film, as far as if it should have it's own listing, we will confirm with our policy team if it is eligible and come back to let you know as soon as we have a reply.

Thanks for reporting.

Cheers!

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@Bethanny​ 

What it seems somebody did with the release date is that this was a serial that I think was 15 chapters (1 chapter was show in theatres a week) so the release date on the original one was fine but when somebody created the second one they used the release date of the final chapter, thats why the release date is like that. It's the date chapter 15 was show which shouldn't be obviously.

Imagine trying to convince a kid to go to see a movie he just saw the last 15 chapters of. over the last 15 weeks.