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The 50,000 Movie Challenge

MPAA Challenger said:
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.
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It's way too difficult to find out, especially when there is no reliable database for films released during the PCA times. I scanned through list of films released from 1965 to 1968, and I noticed that there are few movies with smaller numbers that are unreadable.
 
Only a slight amount of new films rated/approved this week.

52756 Chaos Walking
52764 Fear Of Rain
52830 Yes Day
52913 Canvas (short)
52948 True To The Game 2
52949 Crackhouse Of The Dead
52950 Monster Zone
52955 Stealing Chaplin

It brings a total of 411 films rated this year. Will we able to beat Deadline.com's target of 453 films by the last weekly bulletin? In the last 9 weeks of the previous year, only 6-10 films rated.

I'll keep posting weekly if I saw 8 or less films rated in a weekly bulletin within this year.
 
I just realized that I had forgotten to check this week's bulletin. A total of 19 new movies were rated. I can't remember the last time so many movies were rated in a single week.

52678 The Green Knight

52785 Finding You
52786 Wrong Turn

52818 News Of The World
52890 The Stand In
52891 Bombay Rose

52911 Too Close For Christmas
52920 The Map Of Tiny Perfect Things
52921 Reminiscence
52928 I Care A Lot
52934 Cops & Robbers (short)
52946 Skylines
52958 How To Start A Small Business
52959 The Virtuoso
52960 Songbird
52963 The Human Voice (short)
52964 Possessor
52966 Love, Weddings And Other Disasters
52967 Dark Web: Cicada 3301
 
This week's bulletin is somewhat small.

52936 F9
52969 The Little Penguin Pororo’s Treasure Island Adventure
52970 Minamata
52971 The Right One
52972 Venus As A Boy
52973 American Skin
52974 Bloody Hell

We're so close to the 53,000 mark! Let's hope that we can see 53,000 before the last weekly bulletin of the year, as the recent weekly bulletins were too insufficient, unlike those before 2015.
 
Frantic Canadian said:
I just realized that I had forgotten to check this week's bulletin. A total of 19 new movies were rated. I can't remember the last time so many movies were rated in a single week.
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Speaking of many films rated in a single week, these big numbers are rarely appeared in weekly bulletins nowadays, because non-members of the MPA are excluding from the rating system, sadly. As I looked at the association's annual report of 2019, there are more released films than rated ones, as opposed to those before 2015. (e.g. in 2019, 835 released, 488 rated, to be precise)
 
CJ121997 said:
This week's bulletin is somewhat small.

52936 F9
52969 The Little Penguin Pororo’s Treasure Island Adventure
52970 Minamata
52971 The Right One
52972 Venus As A Boy
52973 American Skin
52974 Bloody Hell

We're so close to the 53,000 mark! Let's hope that we can see 53,000 before the last weekly bulletin of the year, as the recent weekly bulletins were too insufficient, unlike those before 2015.
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Given that the highest number right now is 52974 and there's still 6 bulletins left before Christmas, which I believe is going to be the last one of the year, I can pretty much guarantee that we'll not only hit 53000 but we'll surpass it. Not by much, but we'll pass it.
 
This week's bulletin is somewhat small.

52668 Fatale
52912 One Night In Miami
52923 Long Weekend
52935 If Anything Happens I Love You (short)
52978 Strain 100
52981 Birds Like Us
52982 Beyond Borders
52983 Dutch

For me, 12 films (or more) per week is sufficient. With the exclusion of non-MPA members from the system, the declining of rated films takes us back to the 1980s level, as we know. Looks like we can't beat the record from the previous year.

And at the pace, we'll see the 53,000 series films by December.
 
I just pointed out that, for films released from mid-1934 to around mid-1935 and some films released during the late 1930s, a number can be identified by a pre-title card with a background which contains an MPPDA seal. In a pre-title card, there is a statement: "THIS MOTION PICTURE HAS BEEN APPROVED BY THE MOTION PICTURE PRODUCERS AND DISTRIBUTORS OF AMERICA - CERTIFICATE NO. X" (where X is the number). Sadly, only a few of films released during that era with that pre-title card are available on the net.

Starting in around mid-1935, the MPPDA seal (now MPA), along with the number, appeared in the credits, either opening or closing.
 
Thirteen new movies have been rated this week.

52748 Finding Ohana

52858 Wrath Of Man
52886 Land
52894 Bliss
52897 Twenty Something (short)

52925 The Mauritanian
52956 Cherry
52985 Stars Fell On Alabama
52986 The Alpinist
52991 No Man's Land
52992 Vanguard
52993 Don't Tell A Soul
52994 Sir Alex Ferguson: Never Give In

So, by the looks of it, we will hit 53000 next week.
 
Only if the next week's bulletin has enough number of titles. Let's move on to classics.

I discovered a lot of numbers for the following titles:

10133 I Am an American (short)
10471-10483 Brenda Starr, Reporter (serial)
10581-10593 The Master Key (serial)
10741-10755 The Monster and the Ape (serial)
10951-10965 Who's Guilty? (serial)
10991-11003 The Royal Mounted Rides Again (serial)
11131-11145 Jungle Raiders (serial)
11161 Jan Savitt and His Band (short)
11521-11535 Hop Harrigan (serial)
11631-11645 Chick Carter, Detective (serial)
11667 Life with Father (instead of 11647 which is on the original list of film numbers on the web. In fact, 11647 is taken by a serial called The Crimson Ghost.)
11931-11945 Son of the Guardsman (serial)
12029 Renegade Girl
12095 Vacation Days
12291-12305 The Vigilante (serial)
12548 The Lone Wolf in London
12549 The Crime Doctor's Gamble
12581-12595 Tex Granger (serial)
12685 Dangers of the Canadian Mounted
(instead of 12645 on the original list of film numbers)
12821-12835 Brick Bradford (serial)

21002 Zip Zip Hooray! (short, instead of 21062 as stated on an archived website)
21003 Roadrunner a Go-Go (short, instead of 21063 as stated on an archived website)
21032 The Nanny
21063 Bunny Lake Is Missing
21261 Bolshoi Ballet '67
21408 It!
21413 The Ride to Hangman's Tree
21490 Cop-Out
21591 Journey to Shiloh
21803 How to Steal the World

More to come later.
 
This week's bulletin is so insufficient.

52576 Our Friend
52953 Supernova
52997 Dreamland
52998 The Velvet Underground
52999 Rams (Shoot! It was so close, too, with a number short of 53,000!)

Maybe the non-MPA members don't like the rating system nowadays?
 
Fifteen new movies were rated this week. We didn't get #53000 but we did break that barrier.

52659 The Marksman
52690 Halloween Kills

52896 Nona (short)

52933 The Vault
52942 Malcolm & Marie
52947 The Boy From Medellín
52954 Under The Stadium Lights
52957 People Just Do Nothing: Big In Japan
52961 Cosmic Sin
52976 Operation Mincemeat

53001 Brothers By Blood
53002 Next Goal Wins
53003 Dune
53005 Tortured For Christ
53006 Lamb
 
Frantic Canadian said:
We didn't get #53000 but we did break that barrier.
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At some point in the near future, there will be a film #53,000. The film numbers are not usually issued in sequence as the weekly bulletin is released every week. We made it into that milestone, though.

I discovered several numbers:

121 Alibi Bye Bye (short)
11346 Oh, Professor Behave! (short)
13141-13155 Congo Bill (serial)
13601-13615 Bruce Gentry (serial)
13771-13785 Adventures of Sir Galahad (serial)
14141 So You Think You're Not Guilty (short)
14143 The Grass Is Always Greener (short)
14144 My Country 'Tis of Thee (short)
14157* The Wearing of the Grin (short)
*in film, no number, just logo but verified by a researcher on an archived website
14361-14375 Atom Man vs. Superman (serial)
14471 A Wife's Life (short)
14551-14565 Pirates of the High Seas (serial)
14720 I Love Children But... (short)
14884 Night Without Stars (instead of 15589 which is surely incorrect)
15103 One Wild Night (short)
15581-15595 King of the Congo (short)
15721-15735 Blackhawk (serial)
15911-15925 Son of Geronimo (serial)
16251-16265 The Lost Planet (serial)
16421-16435 The Great Adventures of Captain Kidd (serial)
16721-16735 Gunfighters of the Northwest (serial)
16798 Arrow in the Dust
17001-17015 Riding with Buffalo Bill (serial)
17231-17245 The Adventures of Captain Africa (serial)
17481 The Nat 'King' Cole Musical Story (short)
17551-17565 Perils of the Wilderness (serial)
17799 So You Want to Play the Piano (short)
17801-17815 Blazing the Overland Trail (last serial ever)
21354 Thunderbirds Are Go
21585* Congratulations It's Pink (short)
*Instead of 21545 which was taken by The Music Mice-Tro, a Looney Tunes short. The number is guessed to fit the sequence of five DePatie-Freleng shorts (21583-21587).
21594 In Enemy Country
21595 Madigan
21798 The Legend of Custer
 
CJ121997 said:
Frantic Canadian said:
We didn't get #53000 but we did break that barrier.
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At some point in the near future, there will be a film #53,000. The film numbers are not usually issued in sequence as the weekly bulletin is released every week. We made it into that milestone, though.
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Hopefully, but not necessarily. Number 51000 still remains a mystery as far as I am aware. So who knows when we might get a listing for number 53000.
 
Yeah. There are some milestone numbers that are mysterious out there, like #47,000 and #51,000, probably because these numbers are either assigned to "approved but not rated" films or even rejected. If they're unassigned and later assigned to future films, this would be the best case. However, they could be unlikely to assign to these future films.
 
I scanned through the list of films and there are some films that are not found somewhere on the net. I wonder what are the numbers of those films?

1966 And Now Miguel
1966 Smoky (I don't think it's 21797)
1966 Wild Wild Winter
1967 Gentle Giant
1967 Maroc 7
1967 That Tennessee Beat
1967 Three Bites of the Apple

EDIT: One more additional film not found on the net.

1967 The Naked Runner

If found, feel free to tell what numbers they are.
 
Thirteen new entries this week. Still no entry for #53000, however, we do get an elusive entry from the 51000's.

51812 Dr. Bird's Advice For Sad Poets

52647 Biggie: I Got A Story To Tell

52853 Thunder Force

52927 Strip Down, Rise Up
52952 The World To Come
52996 Happily

53004 Outside The Wire
53010 Annette
53012 Pinocchio
53013 The Killing Of Two Lovers
53014 Max & Me
53017 Six Minutes To Midnight
53018 Justice Society: World War II
 
I just realized that those numbers started with "0" which assigned to some films, especially several short films, were different from actual certificate numbers which are in use today, they ran during the PCA times. They're not wrong, they're still a part of the numbering system used during that era. The highest were in the 6800s which were near the end of that era. Let's take series of short films from Famous Studios as examples. To name a few:

01226 The Paneless Window Washer
01408 I Never Changes My Altitude
06787 The Fuz
 
Fourteen new titles have been rated this week. Two of which are shorts. Still no film assigned to number 53000.

52596 Far From The Tree (short)
52597 Raya And The Last Dragon

52699 Us Again

52940 Last Looks
52951 Silk Road
52979 Colors Of Love
52980 Pixie

53015 Locked Down
53022 Freak Power: The Ballot Or The Bomb
53023 Julia
53024 Falling
53025 Me You Madness
53027 Dara Of Jasenovac
53028 Phobias
 
This is supposed to be the last weekly bulletin of the year for the holidays, but it has a lack of notice. Usually there's a notice on the bulletin released on a Wednesday closer to Christmas. Let's find out next week, otherwise next year. I'll focus on classics for the meantime.
 
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