No, "Betty Boop" was not a TV series in 1930

@ACT_1​ Popeye the Sailor (1960-1962) is in fact not an anthology, but an actual TV series with new episodes. (You can read about it here on Wikipedia). The original shorts had started airing on TV, but the original studio wasn't making any money off of them, so they decided to capitalize on the old shorts' popularity by creating a new series.

@Marco​ 

There's this ? ?

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@ACT_1​ "There's this ? ?"

Thanks, but I meant priorities when it comes to dealing with issues such as the one mentioned in this thread as well as new ideas that should get implemented (for example, the infamous five new genres). I would be interested to see a list of things IMDb is currently working on so we have a better understanding of what's in store for us and why things sometimes take much longer than expected.

Bump.

@gromit82​ Something I reported 16 months ago still hasn't been fixed and I'm not expecting it to ever be, I hope you have better luck.

@gromit82​ I'm disappointed that important movie shorts from 1930s have been listed in the Internet Movie Database as TV episodes for more than eight months.

I wonder if Col Needham has seen this thread. This seems like an issue that might interest him.

@gromit82​ 

I can't tell you how much this bothers me. To my mind this is urgent. When the same thing happened to the Tom and Jerry cartoons, the matter was handled quickly. Col Needham got involved. Why is this different?

cc @Michelle 

And the shame of it is, because IMDb is such a revered source of information, this false "TV series" may be propagating to other websites and/or books.

If it's being kept on IMDb because there's a "series" on Amazon of these cartoons, all that needs to change is the release date of the series itself, with a trivia item explaining why the series has such a different release date than the individual episodes, which should be shells referring to the short films originally released in the 30's.

@Col_Needham,  Can we get an explanation for this?

@bderoes​  The most likely explanation is that the Sprinklr team are just not seeing the updates on this thread, sorry.  Unfortunately there are bugs in Sprinklr which keep some active threads out of the admin view and this must be one.  I tried to reset this thread to "No status" a while ago, but that does not appear to have helped, sorry (the admin view definitely hides threads which are marked as "Solved").  I do not use the admin view myself, but for people whose core job responsibilities include managing Sprinklr, it is not practical to use the same view as end customers like us (despite the bugs).  I will reflag this for the team tomorrow. 

The title should not be a TV-series dated at 1930 and these "episodes" should exist as separate shorts given that is how they were originally released.  However, they were shown in a compilation TV-series later which complicates how we represent them.  There are arguments for not including the later TV-series at all since it is just a repackaging of existing material which could create a bad precedent elsewhere; there are arguments for creating the later series and duplicating the shorts as empty shell episodes; there are arguments for creating the later series and allowing all of the data to be duplicated.  All the options tend to just lead to both customer confusion and "contribution wars" wherein different sets of contributors insist we are doing the wrong thing and constantly correct each other's work (or get frustrated at us for not approving their updates).  It's not an obvious decision and there's clean-up and policy (re-)definition work involved in wherever we land.

An additional factor here is that right now a huge amount of time is being spent training the newly expanded data processing team on literally thousands of IMDb policy points, and therefore reducing the much more visible processing inconsistencies being reported elsewhere on Sprinklr. The team are less likely to be able to address a complex corner case ticket like this (see above). 

Hope this helps. 

@Col_Needham​ Thanks for your reply.

With regard to the problems with Sprinklr, I note that unlike what Get Satisfaction once had (but later got rid of), Sprinklr has no public (end-customer)-facing support function that I can find. Hence, any issues with the Sprinklr web site itself will have to be dealt with by you and your colleagues. In the meantime, rather than bumping my old threads that have not been answered, I will try creating new threads instead.

Regarding the issue of how to report the compilation TV series for "Betty Boop," I would question the idea of treating each of the shorts as an episode of that series, simply on the grounds that it implies that the TV series was shown in episodes of 6 to 8 minutes each. I don't know about other countries, but when theatrical short cartoons have been shown on television in the U.S., typically they have been "packaged" into episodes of 30 minutes, 60 minutes, etc., each episode containing multiple cartoons. And I don't know where IMDb would be able to find the records of which cartoons appeared in which syndicated TV episode, which might have been broadcast 60 years ago.

I'm also skeptical of the idea that there was ever a TV series consisting solely of Barney Bear cartoons, much less Hunky and Spunky, the latter of whom only had 10 cartoons ever made. A half-hour TV series for Hunky and Spunky would have run out of material before completing its fourth episode.

Fortunately, though, I am not that emotionally invested in how IMDb manages the data for these TV series, so I would probably not get involved in the "contribution wars" you are describing.

Mostly I just want to make sure that (a) the theatrical cartoons are actually listed in IMDb as theatrical cartoons, and (b) no phony TV series from before television came into common use are listed or dated to be much earlier than they could have existed.