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| Registered: October 19, 2008 |  Posts: 409 |
| | Posted: | | | | I actually can't find any thing out on DVD, any help would be greatly appreciated |
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| Registered: March 17, 2007 | | Posts: 853 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting FilmAlba: Quote:
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It is now the secound largest film producing country in the world.
Seriously? The African country? If asked to pick the second largest, I probably would have gone for an hour naming every country I could think of and still wouldn't have guessed it. Fascinating!
There not all AK47 despotic hell holes. We have a lot of Africans who have emigrated to Scotland over the last few years and are settling in rather nicely.
A lot of them did come from country's that where like the above. Wonder what's stopping the majority of African Americans getting there act together. Last time I checked no African American had ever tried to blow up an aircraft over foreign soil. |
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| Registered: March 17, 2007 | | Posts: 853 |
| | Posted: | | | | According to the CIA Fact Book these are the current industries:
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crude oil, coal, tin, columbite; palm oil, peanuts, cotton, rubber, wood; hides and skins, textiles, cement and other construction materials, food products, footwear, chemicals, fertilizer, printing, ceramics, steel, small commercial ship construction and repair |
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| Registered: March 15, 2007 |  Posts: 1,982 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Jericko1: Quote:
It is now the secound largest film producing country in the world. Not surprising, since there are so many multi-millionaire in this country. At least if I trust the email of those who want to share their fortune with me  More seriously, most of their movies aren't great and they make Turkish cinema looks like great art  |
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| Registered: May 9, 2007 |  Posts: 1,536 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Alien Redrum: Quote:
I'm surprised the UK is that low on the list. The UK benefits from at least one other source of English language films, and culturally they are not that far apart either. There is more of a need to make your own product for countries like India and Nigeria. | | | | Hans |
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| Registered: March 19, 2007 | Reputation:  | | Posts: 6,018 |
| | Posted: | | | | I don't think Nigeria needs to be added to the CoO list as long as there are no or hardly any DVDs with Nigerian films. When that changes, then of course, by all means add it. |
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| Registered: March 15, 2007 | | Posts: 1,982 |
| | Posted: | | | | As I've said in the other tread : they do movies, they will appear sooner or later on dvd so it isn't that much of a request to fulfil to please an owner (I don't understand at all this mentallity to wait later to do something when it can be made easilly now). |
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| Registered: March 19, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 6,018 |
| | Posted: | | | | As long as that owner himself states he can't find "anything out on DVD", I just think the time and effort it would take - no matter how small - can be spent more efficiently and effectively, that's all.
EDIT: as far as I'm concerned, I'd say: spend that same time and effort on adding missing CoO's whose films DO appear on DVD. Iran is just one example. | | | | Last edited: by dee1959jay |
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| Registered: March 10, 2009 | | Posts: 2,248 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Staid S Barr: Quote:
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I'm surprised the UK is that low on the list.
The UK benefits from at least one other source of English language films, and culturally they are not that far apart either.
There is more of a need to make your own product for countries like India and Nigeria. Scotland is pretty bad for film making not through lack of talent we have. But by the funding mentality. If it's not Irvine Welsh drug's, Glasgow,violence and poverty it's not worth funding. As if ppl don't want to see another side of Scotland in film making. Saying that Red Road was good if you got the stomach for it. |
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| Registered: May 9, 2007 | | Posts: 1,536 |
| | Posted: | | | | Filmmakers do love Scotland for the scenery. Even the food (haggis) doesn't put them off. Or was that another thread?
But kidding aside, every culture needs its own storytelling and film making, but for movies you need a certain size to raise the required money. Apparently they have money in Nigeria. Must be the oil. What happens to the income from natural gas and North Sea oil in Scotland? As if I didn't know... | | | | Hans |
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| Registered: March 10, 2009 | | Posts: 2,248 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Staid S Barr: Quote:
Filmmakers do love Scotland for the scenery. Even the food (haggis) doesn't put them off. Or was that another thread?
But kidding aside, every culture needs its own storytelling and film making, but for movies you need a certain size to raise the required money. Apparently they have money in Nigeria. Must be the oil. What happens to the income from natural gas and North Sea oil in Scotland? As if I didn't know... It goes down south to the UK treasury. We never had the chance to set up our own oil fund cause where not an independent country. | | | | Last edited: by ShinyDiscGuy |
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| Registered: May 9, 2007 | | Posts: 1,536 |
| | Posted: | | | | Down the drain... | | | | Hans |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation:  | | Posts: 6,635 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting FilmAlba: Quote:
The fact is as an ethnic group in America they have wide ranging sociological problems attributed to history and Americas lack of cohesive national identity that extends beyond ethnic groups to bide the people as a whole under one unifying American identity.
Instead the people fragment and become consumed in there own separate ethnic history's which has resulted in there problems of today. Despite being given the same liberty's as other Americans.
It is there for not a problem of race but of there attitude towards there racial history within America. It is fascinating that you think you can condense this issue into a couple of short sentences. For someone who's exposure to America consists of a few visits, it is truly amazing that your grasp of our socio-economic problems in the U.S. is so extensive. You might consider solving this problem during your next visit here! | | | | Hal |
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| Registered: May 26, 2007 | Reputation:  | | Posts: 2,878 |
| | Posted: | | | | Not including the problem of international co-productions, I currently can't list CoOs for a number of DVDs in my collection - I have DVDs from the following countries:
Afghanistan, Botswana, Chile, Columbia, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Morocco & Mozambique
and on my wishlist (or another intend to acquire list, for those DVDs not yet in the db):
Algeira, Angola, Bosnia Herzegovina, Burkina Faso, Croatia, Cuba, Ecuador, Jamaica, Kazakhstan, Macedonia, Mali, Peru, Serbia, Slovenia, Tajikistan, Tunisia, Uruguay & Yugoslavia
The point to this is that there are many countries that are missing from the CoO field for DVDs that are already available and in people's collections (or that they intend to acquire). Nigeria is not alone in the least. While I don't know of any films available from there on DVD, it's certainly worth adding if that field is ever updated. | | | If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
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| Registered: December 10, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 3,004 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Staid S Barr: Quote:
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I'm surprised the UK is that low on the list.
The UK benefits from at least one other source of English language films, and culturally they are not that far apart either.
There is more of a need to make your own product for countries like India and Nigeria. English is the official language iof Nigeria and also the most widely spoken (couldn't find a %). Most of those Nigerian movies are in English. I'm suprised they haven't found more of an export market. |
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| Registered: March 10, 2009 | | Posts: 2,248 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting hal9g: Quote:
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The fact is as an ethnic group in America they have wide ranging sociological problems attributed to history and Americas lack of cohesive national identity that extends beyond ethnic groups to bide the people as a whole under one unifying American identity.
Instead the people fragment and become consumed in there own separate ethnic history's which has resulted in there problems of today. Despite being given the same liberty's as other Americans.
It is there for not a problem of race but of there attitude towards there racial history within America.
It is fascinating that you think you can condense this issue into a couple of short sentences.
For someone who's exposure to America consists of a few visits, it is truly amazing that your grasp of our socio-economic problems in the U.S. is so extensive.
You might consider solving this problem during your next visit here! A solution has to come collectively on how they view them self in America. Much like us Scots who where left with nothing in the 80s. 40% of our working populace on the scarp heap and our culture nothing more than a glorified short bread tin. |
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