Now i wanted to have a list of movies by Actor or Director. So i could see if there are more movies i have to watch So today i started to figure out how.
So i made a Google Sheet and scraped websites with the needed information.
Create a new sheet
Make a tab for top-dutch, actor or director
Do a search of things you want to display
A search of actor and filmography will probably work (imdb of wikipedia)
copy the url and make a note of which table it is, first second or more.
First tests with a Vuze Xr. (unedited unoptimized)
It can record 360 movies or take 360 degrees pictures. Besides that it can do stereoscopic recording for using in VR glasses. (2D 180 tested in a oculus vr set) In the past i made those 360 degrees pictures manually using Hugin for example. Also stereoscopic images, using two pictures. But it was a lot of work, and most of the times the quality wasn’t worth it.
One of my first encounters with English Humour was when my wonderful teacher Mrs Walraven rolled in the old VCR-on-cart when i was going to technical secondary school (MTS)
She showed us Monty Python, Faulty Towers and Black Adder. THIS is the humour i like, this is for me!
So from that point on i wanted to see English Humour.
There are standup comedians i like, Billy Connolly (seen him live), Eddie Izzard (seen him live), Michael McIntyre and Jimmy Carr (tickets!!!) to name a few. Life stories, wierd confronting idea’s and realisations of things , Real life observations and Dark humour. (in that order)
But i wanted to tell about TV shows (i try to place them in order):
Monty Python One of the first things i saw, great stuff. Liked the movies also.
Black Adder Loved the way it was the character Rowan Atkinson played got smarter every ‘season’, and Tony Robinson (Baldrick) was getting dumber. The last ‘season’ WWI was when all things where exactly right. (Yearly rewatch)
Not the nine o’clock news This one i need to review
The Young Ones A series that broke boundaries like Monty Python. First time i notished the perfect duo, Rik Mayall and Ade Edmonson
Fawlty Towers To few episodes, but each a brilliant piece of work. Superb characters! (Yearly rewatch)
Red dwarf Great stuff, loved the characters. And the space setting
Mr Bean Great (silent) performance of Rowan Atkinson. Liked his One man show more i think.
Bottom Then i learned about Bottom. It was the genius jokes and performances. The 5 liveshows where even more amazing. (Yearly rewatch) Also i have to mention the movie : Guest House Paradiso
So i went looking for more:
Filthy Rich & Catflap Secret Policeman’s Ball (not really a TV series)
Then i came across a oldie …
At last the 1948 show A predecessor of Monty Python with Marty Feldman
Do not adjust your set Also with guys who did Monty Python later on.
Today i was in Uist on holiday in Scotland, talking about these show. The B&B owner said “Do you know – Ripping Yarns???” So that’s the next to find and view!
Others i have to mention: Alas Smith and Jones The Bleak Old Shop of Stuff Allo allo
I made two scripts, which take a movie, find out its lenght divide by 9. And generates a image montage of snapshots at certain times in the movie. ( A movie of 90 minutes, gets a snapshot every 10 minutes )
Example of snapshots of a movie
Below takes images as above and convert them into animated gifs. All movies in a path or directory structure gets a index page containing all animated gifs.
Example of generated directory index
I’ll post something about my media sorter also. A ajax website using drag drop viewing/sorting images (png/gifs/jpgs) and movies.