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The Wizard of Oz Most 'Influential' Film of all Time According to Network Science:
The Wizard of Oz, followed by Star Wars and Psycho, is identified as the most influential film of all time in a study published in the open access journal Applied Network Science.
Researchers at the University of Turin, Italy, calculated an influence score for 47,000 films listed in IMDb (the internet movie database). The score was based on how much each film had been referenced by subsequent films. The authors found that the top 20 most influential films were all produced before 1980 and mostly in the United States.
Dr. Livio Bioglio, the lead author, said: "We propose an alternative method to box office takings—which are affected by factors beyond the quality of the film such as advertising and distribution—and reviews—which are ultimately subjective—for analysing the success of a film. We have developed an algorithm that uses references between movies as a measure for success, and which can also be used to evaluate the career of directors, actors and actresses, by considering their participation in top-scoring movies."
Applying the algorithm to directors, the five men credited for The Wizard of Oz are all in the top eight, with Alfred Hitchcock, Steven Spielberg and Stanley Kubrick ranked third, fifth and sixth respectively. When the authors used another approach to remove the bias of older movies—which, because they were produced earlier, can potentially influence a greater number of subsequent films—Alfred Hitchcock, Steven Spielberg and Brian De Palma occupied the top spots instead.
When applied to actors, the algorithm ranked Samuel L. Jackson, Clint Eastwood and Tom Cruise as the top three. The authors noticed a strong gender bias towards male actors; the only female in the top ten was Lois Maxwell, who played the recurring role of Miss Moneypenny in the James Bond franchise.
[...] The authors suggest that their method could be used for research in the arts and by film historians. However, they caution that the results can only be applied to Western cinema as the data on IMDb are strongly biased towards films produced in Western countries.
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More information: Livio Bioglio et al, "Identification of key films and personalities in the history of cinema from a Western perspective", Applied Network Science (2018). DOI: 10.1007/s41109-018-0105-0
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Sunday December 02 2018, @07:55AM (3 children)
I've long been able to sing if I warm up properly, or harmonize with someone else first, sing with an accompanist &c.
But really the only time I've ever sung solo for my mother, she pulled her car into her parking lot, took her billfold out of her purse then just handed me a hundred bucks. :-/
That was not my intention.
But twice now I've been tipped $20 bills, five or six times $10 bills, once or twice a week I get $5. The fastest I've ever gotten tipped was $8.50 in a little over twenty minutes. It's going to be a good long time before my singing career outpaces that of my coding.
But now I'm generally able to sing both consistently and well.
I was just in the ER again, this time I was _completely_ convinced I was dying. I Rode In Style with lights and sirens but I most confess, I didn't enjoy the experience. I'm home now but the dizziness and nauseau have returned and the head rush is coming on again. This has not been at all like my other ER visits. I still have vocal aphasia but not written aphasia.
So I have to chill for a while before I can record my cover.
I've got a reasonably good setup, not quite pro recording, but good-quality recording. When I recording "Michael David Crawford LIVE! On Broadway (... and Morrison in Portland, Oregon) I'll buy a quality Mic and one of the Zoom Hx Handy Recorders [zoom-na.com].
The main thing getting in the way of releasing my vocal album is learning enough material to fill out a complete CD. I have to sing a song on the street holding the lyrics in my hand before I can memorize them.
Also standing in my way is that it's so much easier just to sing the songs I already know but my set is only twenty-minutes long. There's an outdoor cafe just yards - that would be just (meters * 0.9144) for my many foreign friends - from my best corner. Without a doubt by now I've driven every one of its baristas totally bananas.
Here's my entire set:
After quite some consideration, I've decided to call my own cover "Ballad Of The Rising Sun" as the melody is original with me, and are very slow, solemn and sorrowful.
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]
(Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Monday December 03 2018, @03:18PM (1 child)
The old Rising Sun is so much better than the Animal's version from the 60's (or was it the 70's? I forget)
I used to sing Josh White's version, with a lot of strange chords, but I've completely forgotten the chord sequences.
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Monday December 03 2018, @05:07PM
https://youtu.be/M8Ueo7r2nbA [youtu.be]
Thank you for that.
When I get home this afternoon, I'll play that with my volume turned all the way up to 11.
I can't play music during the day at NedSpace, and I busted by headphones. (There are some members here who absolutely require silence. I'm OK with that because I keep my volume turned all the way up to 11 when I work at night.)
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]
(Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Saturday December 08 2018, @11:34PM
Watch out for the H100. Its input volume control is digital, which means it takes effect after the A-to-D converter. So if your input is too loud, the signal pegs at the limits of the A-to-D, which causes unacceptable distortion.
The proper place for an input volume control is before the A-to-D converter. Anyplace else and you can just as well do it on the computer that processes the WAV files.
Later H*'s can be different on this front. One (not sure which one) has a switch to attenuate the input. Only two attenuation settings, but a choice of two is better than no choice.
-- hendrik