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The 50,000 Movie Challenge

MPAA Challenger said:
Personally, I'd far prefer quality to quantity.
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This is how the number of rated films is going downhill over the years like since 2009. Let's look at the figures.
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I discovered several numbers that are not on the list on the net which was last updated over a decade ago. Here are these:

2940 Dizzy Doctors (short)
3911 Tassels in the Air (short)
11416 Monkey Businessmen (short)
15886 Cuckoo on a Choo Choo (short)
18899 Triple Crossed (short)
18900 Flying Saucer Daffy (short)
19796 Blast of Silence
20671 Sergeant Ryker
20978 Return from the Ashes
21167 Beau Geste
21315 A Covenant with Death
21317 Don't Make Waves
21343 Gunfight in Abilene
21385 Hostile Guns
21412 The Reluctant Astronaut
21492 How I Won the War
21508 How to Save a Marriage and Ruin Your Life
21540 The Big Mouth
21541 Sol Madrid
21567 The Secret War of Harry Frigg
21581 Clambake
21618 A Lovely Way to Die
21636 The Anniversary
21716 Kona Coast

I know it's somewhat hard to find these numbers in the 1-22000 range because of the limited accessibility and their unavailability somewhere on the net.

More to come in the coming days.
 
CJ121997 said:
I discovered several numbers that are not on the list on the net which was last updated over a decade ago. Here are these:

2940 Dizzy Doctors (short)
3911 Tassels in the Air (short)
11416 Monkey Businessmen (short)
15886 Cuckoo on a Choo Choo (short)
18899 Triple Crossed (short)
18900 Flying Saucer Daffy (short)
19796 Blast of Silence
20671 Sergeant Ryker
20978 Return from the Ashes
21167 Beau Geste
21315 A Covenant with Death
21317 Don't Make Waves
21343 Gunfight in Abilene
21385 Hostile Guns
21412 The Reluctant Astronaut
21492 How I Won the War
21508 How to Save a Marriage and Ruin Your Life
21540 The Big Mouth
21541 Sol Madrid
21567 The Secret War of Harry Frigg
21581 Clambake
21618 A Lovely Way to Die
21636 The Anniversary
21716 Kona Coast

I know it's somewhat hard to find these numbers in the 1-22000 range because of the limited accessibility and their unavailability somewhere on the net.

More to come in the coming days.
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Thanks. I had several from this list but not all. The shorts are all Three Stooges shorts.
 
I can see that a lot of missing numbers in that range can be found in a series of documentary shorts called "Screen Snapshots", produced from 1924 to 1958. Sadly, most of them are not on the internet. :-(
 
Does anyone have the numbers for these serials?

Tailspin Tommy (1934) (12 chapters)
Mystery Mountain (1934) (12 chapters)
The Adventures of Rex and Rinty (1935) (12 chapters)
The Roaring West (1935) (15 chapters)
The Call of the Savage (1935) (12 chapters)
Tailspin Tommy in the Great Air Mystery (1935) (15 chapters)
 
10 new titles have been rated this week.

52340 Wander Darkly

52578 Antebellum

52672 Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey

52820 Hubie Halloween
52852 Seance
52855 All My Life
52856 Shithouse
52860 No Escape
52861 The Little Things
52862 Black Bear
 
The TCM goldmine wins again

Madame X #21021 1966
Soldier In The Rain #20806 1963 (I Can confirm the first 2 #'s 20 3rd & 5th # could be 6 or 8 4th # pretty confident on the 0) #20606, 20806 & 20608 are open # 20808 is Goldfinger
The Honeymoon Machine #19955
 
I'm spending a long and hard time hunting over 9000 missing numbers. Some serials and other unfamiliar series of short films from the PCA era can help fill these missing ones, but most of these are not found somewhere on the net.
 
This week's bulletin is so small. Counting re-ratings:

51510 The True Adventures of Wolfboy (re-rating)
52824 Marry Me (re-rating)
52837 Dinosaur Train: Adventure Island
52863 Scare Us
52864 Dragon Soldiers
52865 Breach
52866 Iron Mask
52867 Miracle in East Texas

There are 17 remaining for the year. At the current trend (average of 9.38 new rated titles per week), this year will be lower than previous year and will be going to be the lowest since the 1980s.
 
Nine new titles have been rated this week.

52318 Love And Monsters

52743 Breaking News In Yuba County
52768 Blue Bayou
52784 The Prom

52838 Judas And The Black Messiah
52872 Lockdown
52873 The Little Penguin Pororo's Dinosaur Island Adventure
52878 An Imperfect Murder
52879 Chick Fight
 
The sad truth is, those missing numbers in the 1-22000 range are mostly "lost" short subjects from 1934-68, including serials, so we won't be able to complete the list. :-(

I'm curious what does the quote mean? "...and
the MPAA information office does not have the title of the film issued
certificate #1 readily available." That was from a source dated about 20 years at the earliest.
 
Oh, darn. It seems that there are no new titles for this week. The weekly bulletin should come out like three or four hours ago. If so, this will be the first time in like 19 years. Or maybe there's something wrong?

Update: The weekly bulletin comes out one day later than usual. Too close to missed out by a week! However, it's a bit too small.

52587 Run
52721 The Glorias
52771 Giving Voice
52779 Mario Puzo's: The Godfather Coda: The Death Of
Michael Corleone
52810 Echo Boomers
52812 The Croods: A New Age
52883 Horizon Line
52884 Gunda
 
Twelve new titles have been rated this week.

52334 Happiest Season
52336 Connected

52760 Shadow In The Cloud
52795 Safety

52851 Curious George: Go West, Go Wild
52876 The Last Shift
52882 The Kid Detective
52885 Ravers
52887 Mortal
52892 Wolfwalkers
52893 Smiley Faced Killers​​​​​​​
52895 Freaky
 
I found out the reason that the number of rated films are declining over time. According to an article on Deadline posted in 2018, the ratings for films released by minor film distributors (particularly independent ones) started to exclude from the rating system. As a result, an annual decline of about 7% is excluded. The article also shows the statistics: In 2014, 708 films were rated while in 2016, 605 were rated. By the following year, 563 were rated, reduced by 7%. What I'm curious is the fact that if the previous year's percentages were duplicated for the next 3 years, in that scenario, the overall number of rated films would be 453 in 2020 (as of 9/23, 358 are rated). So close to that target, with 13 weeks left for the year. And what if the percentage went at the same rate? Then the number of rated films would be 421 in 2021, 392 in 2022, 364 in 2023, and so on until I probably lost interest in compiling films on the list as a result of constant down rate, thinking that it's too insufficient. Sounds like that the film rating is going to be a thing of the past for many films.

So the rating of films released by minor distributors contributed to a huge number of rated films, and if they're excluded from that system, it would hit the 1980s level (in that decade, 323-569 films are rated). We know that the rating of these films is responsible for the assigning of these numbers.
 
Nine new films have been rated this week:

52638 Embattled

52796 Godmothered

52800 Anonymous Killers
52857 In The Heights
52898 915

52900 Love By Drowning
52901 Pray: The Story Of Patrick Peyton
52902 My Brother's Keeper
52903 Shortcut
 
Ten new movies were rated this week.

52483 Minari

52804 Spell
52809 Fatman
52869 After We Collided
52870 Dreamland

52905 The Never List
52906 Guitar Man
52908 Heaven
52909 A California Christmas
52910 Concrete Cowboy
 
Another 10 new movies rated this week.

52725 The Christmas Chronicles: Part 2

52811 Sister Of The Groom
52832 Monster Pets: A Hotel Transylvania Short (short)
52854 The Comeback Trail
52880 Toys Of Terror
52881 Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery Of Prodigious Bribe To American Regime For Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation Of Kazakhstan

52916 Batman: Soul Of The Dragon
52917 The Gardener
52918 Warning
52919 The Very Excellent Mr. Dundee
 
Twelve new movies were rated this week.

52665 Jungleland

52740 The Midnight Sky

52877 The Life Ahead
52888 The 355
52889 Wander
52899 Pieces Of A Woman

52904 The Craft
52924 100% Wolf
52929 Twiceborn
52930 Come Away
52931 The Souvenir Part II
52932 Feral State
 
Yesterday I reached a new personal milestone:

7000

of which 592 are shorts.

In other words, 13,2 % of the 53,000 numbers.

However, my actual total is a bit higher because obviously I'm not including movies with unknown / unconfirmed numbers, such as:

Under the Yum Yum Tree (1963)
The Truth About Spring (1965)
Return of the Seven (1966)
Tony Rome (1967)

Those are 4 classic films that I've seen and have certificate numbers on the credits, but they're too small and/or difficult to make out.

In the modern era, off the top of my head there's:

Kika (1993)

one of those movies that surrendered its NC-17 rating, and the number is not available on filmratings.com

And I'm sure I've seen a few more movies that are in similar situations, from both the classic era (pre-1968) and the modern ratings era.
 
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