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How many documentary films about Mr. Bean's Holiday exist? 3 or none?

As a Mr. Bean fan, I was offended when IMDb told me there are three documentary movies about his movie [tt1284492] [tt1284493] [tt1284494] All three are shorts, all run at 30 minutes, two have NO CREW items and one mentions a carpenter, a construction buyer! and a wardrobe person and a mini bus driver, and all three were released to DVD in Japan the same day of 2008. Wow! I Googled to buy it, but I've been unable to find that DVD. Questions: - is this is a silly joke, creating 3 DVD titles out of nothing? - is this a huge error, creating 3 aka titles for an episode of a series? Check [tt3010676]... Problem: IMDb is accepting NEW titles with great leniency.

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@artemis_9 These are DVD featurettes which are also included on the UK DVD release. Please see https://a.media-amazon.com/images/I/81wr7ki18ZL._AC_SL1222_.jpg (look at the "Beantastic Bonus Features" tag over on the right, above the film strip). The DVD itself is listed at https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B003ZSHLNS/ Hope this helps.

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Thank you. A good example of capitalism at it's best: passing DVD extras as featurettes. Which is not so new, though I had not come across something this... flagrant. I still take exception with the "new titles" pages in IMDb, as those featurettes MUST HAVE a production company and a crew to be more than "extended ads".

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@artemis_9: You say it's "A good example of capitalism at it's best". I think it's a good example of IMDb not having enough title types for all the content they're allowing in the database. If there'd be a title type for DVD extras, things would cause less confusion I imagine.

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I am not sure if I agree with you. IMDb started as a database on all movies and TV programs ever released to the public - and that was alright. Then, when IMDb tried to encompass every bit of s--, I mean, materials released to the web and also all the extras in VHS and DVD - which obviously are not items in themselves, it went down to where it is. It is virtually impossible to classify every "type" of images someone thinks of. What would be required of IMDb was NOT to accept "new titles" without at least the basic cast and crew data of a REAL movie. Cut scenes, making ofs, trailers, and so on SHOULD NOT be entered as movies. It's just my opinion, though. I'm not even sure this "trend" is serving right the capital of the Production companies and Distributors of the original movies - but they do not have director boards any more, everything is being controlled by AI. (LOL)

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I don't think we need a new title type or to prohibit titles like this from the database. What we do need is a clearer policy about DVD extras. They are included as a title type at https://help.imdb.com/article/contribution/titles/title-formatting/G56U5ERK7YY47CQB# which is good. However, the last couple of times I submited a DVD extra to the database, I didn't include the keyword "dvd-extra" which is required. (I just added that keyword now.) On the other hand, I did include in my original submission a trivia item to say that the title was included as a DVD extra on the release of the feature, so that anyone who reads the IMDb page for the DVD extra will know where they may be able to find that title. I suggest that the guide at https://help.imdb.com/article/contribution/titles/title-formatting/G56U5ERK7YY47CQB# have an additional comment under DVD extras, along the following lines: "Include a Trivia item to indicate the title of the DVD (and distributor, country, or year, if relevant) on which the extra is available."

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@artemis_9: As far as I know, trailers are NOT allowed on IMDb. I agree that not every type can be classified, but that doesn't mean the most common can't :)

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@gromit82: Agree to disagree on the new title type then :) I do see your point about the extra line in the guides about a trivia item though.