I can never understand how a film from say 1966 has a running time of say 128 min., can be RE issued using the same running time of 128 minutes, and be of the same year.. 1966 , but you can't clone the cast and crew as they may be different.. Are we living in Bizarro World?? 


(Even if the movie has an extra scene or two , and those actors were picked up off the cutting room floor., , then reinserted .. You quite often find the credit roll of cut actors are most always included in reedited screen version a week after first release.)

Do you have examples of different credits in a way that would affect us without a different cut of the movie, locality change, etc? I'd think that even if such things occasionally happen, a cloned cast is better than no cast at all. If it's wrong, we can always fix it later.

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Do you have examples of different credits in a way that would affect us without a different cut of the movie, locality change, etc?

Dave Chappelle in Con Air

I woudd generally remove all uncredited without a listed role as there's no way to verify them.

Thanks, but my point stands. When a new version of Con Air out, a list of credits with Dave instead of David is preferable to no credits. I would be careful about replacing existing cast lists with cloned data, though.

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Thanks, but my point stands. When a new version of Con Air out, a list of credits with Dave instead of David is preferable to no credits. I would be careful about replacing existing cast lists with cloned data, though.

Ace:

And this is why in every post that talks about cloned data or how to do it, if I post I always say the same thing everytime.

Can we all say it together.

If you are going to clone data, at least verify that the data you are cloning matches the data from the disc you have in your hand.

I think i need to put music to that, then we can sing it, maybe in three-part harmony.

Skip

Let's take the 1939 film of Gone With The Wind,, running times vary between 222 and 232 minutes . (depending on Overture/Intermission/ entr'Acte/and exit music cues can all run havoc on the running time.,)  The Movie  itself is today out on  2 versions of DVD ( soon to be 3 with BD later this year),
So the 1998 DVD was loaded with Dozens  of uncredited names which to me looked like an IMDB clone.,which came to my attention a few years back ( 2004), when The film was released on a 4 disc set with the main movie on two discs.  After finishing the cast for the dividers in place for the all the opening credits ( there was  no closing credits in those days), I was informed that all the uncredited cast I removed for the special 4 disc ed was wrong as the uncredited names are all included in a special booklet that came with the 2004 edition.
The 1998 edition was approved with no uncredited , Why? because They appeared to be an IMDB clone as well as there was  no booklet.
So what will happen this fall ,, IF  Blue ray releases the 2004 Special ED. without a commerative booklet? 
But the 1998 (ala 2k 2004) ediiton  is the same version a 4k Ultra-Resolution transfer and archival video master was achieved for BlueRay and HD TV ., .

Which clone shall we  take it's cast from ? the 1998 or 2004 edition? There are both the same movie.

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All that matters for contribution purposes is Ken's (repeated) stance on the issue, as Unicus was kind enough to provide. Anything else is called personal preference.

And in my humble opinion Ken's logic is completely flawed on this matter.
Skip

It's a free country, but that does not change the fact that your humble opinion is completely irrelevant for the purpose of contributions to the Invelos database, which BTW is owned by Ken, not you.

You cannot come to these forums and with regard to SOME issues say that Ken has spoken and his word should be followed and then as soon as you don't like Ken's stance on a different issue defend a different line of action. That would be inconsistent and deprived of any form of logic.

As you always say: you're free to do anything you want LOCALLY. It's called a PERSONAL PREFERENCE.