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12 Question Survey: Various Data About Your Collection
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DVD Profiler Unlimited Registrantxradman
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For the top three choices in actors, directors, etc, are you asking a statistical question from our collection, or our preference or ranking?  It seems many answers are split.
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edit: @xradman: I believe the statistical approach was the one OP was after, and I think at least most of the posters replied accordingly(?)

I'm excluding television from all below:

1. What's your oldest movie and which year was it produced?
Das Kabinett der Doktor Caligari (1919)

2. What are your three most common production years?
1. 2006
2. 2007
3. 2005

3. How many different countries of origin do you have?
22

4. What are your top three genres?
1. Drama
2. Comedy
3. Suspense/Thriller

5. What are your top three studios?
1. Warner Bros. Pictures
2. Universal Pictures
3. Columbia Pictures

6. What are your most common ratings?
By age restriction way as they go here in Finland:
1. 15
2. None
3. 11

7. Who are your top three actors?
Disqualifying Alfred Hitchcock's cameos (39) and television, I have:
1. Ingrid Bergman (31)
2. Marilyn Monroe (27)
3. Bess Flowers (26) (Queen of extras...)

8. Who are your top three directors?
1. Alfred Hitchcock (44)
2. Martin Scorsese (22)
3. Billy Wilder (14)

9. Who are your top three screenwriters?
1. Aki Kaurismäki (16)
2. Ben Hecht (15)
T3. Billy Wilder and Woody Allen (14)

10. Who are your top three producers?
1. Harvey Weinstein (21)
2. Scott Rudin (19)
3. Bob Weinstein (18)

11. Who are your top three composers?
1. Alfred Newman (18)
2. Franz Waxman (17)
3. John Williams (14)

12. What is, in your estimation, your most obscure movie?
It would be easy to list many Finnish movies here that nobody has heard of, or many even here, but perhaps...
- Stimulantia (by Ingmar Bergman, released in The Netherlands in "Ingmar Bergman Collectie"-series), or perhaps...
- Die Vier Gesellen (Ingrid Bergman's odd 1938 leading role in a German speaking movie, one year before her Hollywood debut. German released DVD, obviously)
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Reposting mine
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Since I can't get the plugin to work, from http://doena-soft.de/phpdvdprofiler_en/?lastmedia=Statistics

1. What's your oldest movie and which year was it produced?
Dumbo, 1941

2. What are your three most common production years?
124 2005
124 1999
123 1998

3. How many different countries of origin do you have?
11

4. What are your top three genres?
(1630 Television)
585 Science-Fiction
573 Fantasy
527 Comedy

5. What are your top three studios?
99 Paramount Pictures
79 Warner Bros. Pictures
75 Universal Pictures

6. What are your most common ratings?
394 FSK-12 (Germany)
274 NR (mostly US)
187 FSK-16 (Germany)

7. Who are your top three actors?
Including TV shows:
107 Jennifer Aniston 1969
106 Matt LeBlanc 1967
100 Matthew Perry 1969
(I've got the complete Friends box twice)

Excluding TV shows:
24 Terence Hill 1939
22 Bruce Willis 1955
21 Bud Spencer 1929

8. Who are your top three directors?
12 Steven Spielberg 1946
12 Richard Donner 1930
9 Kevin Smith 1970

9. Who are your top three screenwriters?
10. Who are your top three producers?
11. Who are your top three composers?
Don't have that data.

12. What is, in your estimation, your most obscure movie?
Weirdness of movie: Donnie Darko
Otherwise obscure: Womb Raider 
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1. What's your oldest movie and which year was it produced?
The Wonderful Wizard of OZ (1910)

2. What are your three most common production years?
1. 1946 (24)
2. 1953 (23)
3. 1955/1999 (21)

3. How many different countries of origin do you have?
14

4. What are your top three genres?
1. Drama (348)
2. Suspense/Thriller (99)
3. Comedy (96)

5. What are your top three studios?
1. Warner Bros. Pictures (80)
2. Paramount Pictures (71)
3. Twentieth Century Fox (68)

6. What are your most common ratings?
1. PG (350)
2. M (304)
3. G (161)

7. Who are your top three actors?
Disqualifying Alfred Hitchcock's cameos:
1. John Wayne (35)
2  Bess Flowers (28)
3. Ward Bond (27)

8. Who are your top three directors?
1. Alfred Hitchcock (63)
2. John Ford (15)
3. Steven Spielberg (15)

9. Who are your top three screenwriters?
1. Charles Bennett (15)
2. Federico Fellini (11)
3. John Huston (11)

10. Who are your top three producers?
1. Darryl F. Zanuck (24)
2. Hal B. Wallace (22)
3. David O. Selznick (13)

11. Who are your top three composers?
1. Max Steiner (29)
2. Alfred Newman (28)
3. Dimitri Tiomkin (26)

12. What is, in your estimation, your most obscure movie?
Probably an Australian Film, The Nostradamus Kid (1993). It isn’t in the database because I have been too lazy to add it. Good film too. See here. It only has 124 IMDB votes!
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1. What's your oldest movie and which year was it produced?
Frankenstein (1931)

2. What are your three most common production years?
2003 (87), 2002 (85), 2004 (76)

3. How many different countries of origin do you have?
20

4. What are your top three genres?
Action, Drama, Suspense/Thriller (first genre only)

5. What are your top three studios?
Universal Pictures, Paramount Pictures, Twentieth Century Fox

6. What are your most common ratings?
15, 11, 18

7. Who are your top three actors?
Samuel L. Jackson (25), Al Pacino (24), Robert De Niro (22)

8. Who are your top three directors?
Steven Spielberg (15), Clint Eastwood (14), Martin Scorsese / John Woo (11)

9. Who are your top three screenwriters?
Sylvester Stallone / Oliver Stone (11), Luc Besson / George Lucas / Quentin Tarantino (9)

10. Who are your top three producers?
Harvey Weinstein (27), Bob Weinstein (26), Joel Silver (23)

11. Who are your top three composers?
John Williams (30), James Newton Howard (23), Hans Zimmer (21)

12. What is, in your estimation, your most obscure movie?
Don't really know. No rarities in my collection and the most weird movie (although in a good way) is propably Happiness of the Katakuris.
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1. What's your oldest movie and which year was it produced?
Häxan: Witchcraft Through the Ages, from 1922
followed by Battleship Potemkin, from 1925

2. What are your three most common production years?
2003, 2005, 2001 & 2007 (3rd place tie)

3. How many different countries of origin do you have?
Listed = 33, Actual = 46

4. What are your top three genres?
First Genre:
1. Drama (615)
2. Anime (358)
3. Science-Fiction (316)

All Genres:
1. Drama (1037)
2. Television (802)
3. Science Fiction (506)

5. What are your top three studios?
1. Paramount
2. Warner Bros.
3. Universal

Excluding the Majors:
1. ADV Films
2. Walt Disney Pictures
3. Millar Gough Ink & Tollin/Robbins Productions

6. What are your most common ratings?
1. NR (1505)
2. R (342)
3. PG-13 (287)

For the queries below, I filtered out TV, since otherwise every answer is associated with Star Trek

7. Who are your top three actors?
Disqualifying voice actors and cameos from Hitchcock:
1. Christopher Lee (26)
2. Jimmy Stewart & Bess Flowers (25 each)
3. Cary Grant (21)

Including TV & voice actors but excluding Star Trek & Smallville actors:
1. Aya Hisakawa (45)
2. Tomokazu Seki (40)
3. Frank Welker (39)

8. Who are your top three directors?
1. Alfred Hitchcock (30)
2. Steven Spielberg (17)
3. Clint Eastwood (11)

9. Who are your top three screenwriters?
1. George Lucas, Gene Roddenberry & William Shakespeare (10 each)
2. Ben Hecht, Hayao Miyazaki, Keiko Nobumoto, Erdman Penner, Ted Sears & Ralph Wright (9 each)
3. John L. Balderston, Ingmar Bergman, Terry Gilliam, Akira Kurosawa, Stan Lee & Bill Peet (8 each)

10. Who are your top three producers?
1. Bob Weinstein & Harvey Weinstein (28 each)
2. Tim Bevan, Walt Disney, Eric Fellner & Arnon Milchan (15 each)
3. Avi Arad, George Lucas & Steven Speilberg (14 each)

11. Who are your top three composers?
1. John Williams (39)
2. Hans Zimmer (27)
3. James Horner (23)

12. What is, in your estimation, your most obscure movie?
I would have said Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death, but it surprised me with the number of contribution votes.    Therefore, 2 Million Minutes & its two sequels, documentaries on education that I believe I have the only copies of among the Profiler folks.
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1. What's your oldest movie and which year was it produced?
    The Lost World (Silent) 1925    from Nightmare Worlds (50 Movie Pack)

2. What are your three most common production years?
    2006
    2007
    2008

3. How many different countries of origin do you have?
  22

4. What are your top three genres?
    Horror - 491
    Comedy - 319
    Suspence / Thriller - 204

5. What are your top three studios?
    Universal, 20th Century Fox, Paramount


6. What are your most common ratings?
    R - 429
    NR - 365
    PG - 197
These last 5 Questions how can  I get this  information.

7. Who are your top three actors?
8. Who are your top three directors?
9. Who are your top three screenwriters?
10. Who are your top three producers?
11. Who are your top three composers?

12. What is, in your estimation, your most obscure movie?
I have none at this time
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To those who are wondering how to get some of the answers:

You can install the Simple Statistics plugin and then run some of the built-in queries it has. The plugin is available here: http://www.invelos.com/Forums.aspx?task=viewtopic&topicID=190502&PageNum=1

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My results including tv shows:

1. What's your oldest movie and which year was it produced?
Dr. Jeckyll & Mr. Hyde 1920 (Horror Classics: 50 Movie Pack)

2. What are your three most common production years?
2004
2006
2007

3. How many different countries of origin do you have?
28

4. What are your top three genres?
TV
Drama
Suspence

5. What are your top three studios?
20th Century Fox
Paramount Pictures
Columbia Pictures

6. What are your most common ratings?
FSK 16
FSK 12
FSK 18/KJ

7. Who are your top three actors?
Majel Barrett
Colm Meaney
Michael Dorn

8. Who are your top three directors?
James A. Contner
Daniel Attias
David Livingston

9. Who are your top three screenwriters?
Brannon Braga
Carol Mendelsohn
Anthony E. Zuiker

10. Who are your top three producers?
Jerry Bruckheimer
Joss Whedon
Rick Berman 

11. Who are your top three composers?
Mark Snow
Dennis McCarthy
Jay Chattaway 

12. What is, in your estimation, your most obscure movie?
All my movies from director Uwe Boll! 
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Quoting Astrakan:
Quote:

Note: DJ Doena reports having trouble getting it to work, and it doesn't look like Asphyxion (the plugin creator) is active on the boards anymore so we can't get support that way. Hopefully the plugin isn't broken.


I don't know about broken but I do get different results for CoO between this & Database Query



Ignoring the "Missing" line in Query, there's quite some variance between the USA figures and then UK & France are a few adrift as well.
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add up the numbers and check which one sums up to your total of profiles.
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The Database Query figures match the profiles.
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Quoting Astrakan:
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To those who are wondering how to get some of the answers:

You can install the Simple Statistics plugin and then run some of the built-in queries it has. The plugin is available here: http://www.invelos.com/Forums.aspx?task=viewtopic&topicID=190502&PageNum=1

Note: DJ Doena reports having trouble getting it to work, and it doesn't look like Asphyxion (the plugin creator) is active on the boards anymore so we can't get support that way. Hopefully the plugin isn't broken.

KM


Perfect, thanks!



Well, here are mine (not including television):
1. What's your oldest movie and which year was it produced?
King Kong, 1933

2. What are your three most common production years?
2006, 2007, 2008

3. How many different countries of origin do you have?
17

4. What are your top three genres?
Action, Comedy, Drama

5. What are your top three studios?
Paramount, Warner Bros., Universal

6. What are your most common ratings?
None/NR (884), R (844), PG-13 (533)

7. Who are your top three actors?
1. Samuel L. Jackson (36)
2. Morgan Freeman (33)
3. Sean Connery, Matt Damon (27)

8. Who are your top three directors?
1. Steven Spielberg (21)
2. Alfred Hitchcock (20)
3. Ridley Scott (16)

9. Who are your top three screenwriters?
Authors/Creators
1. Ian Fleming (35) - I own 21 Bonds on DVD plus more on BD and some duplicates
2. Bob Kane (17)
3. Stan Lee (13)

Screenwriters
1. Richard Maibaum (21)
2. John Hughes (15)
3. David Koepp, The Wachowski Bros. (14)

10. Who are your top three producers?
1. Bob Weinstein (62)
2. Harvey Weinstein (60)
3. Bruce Berman (45)

11. Who are your top three composers?
1. John Williams (53)
2. Danny Elfman (42)
3. Hans Zimmer (40)
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That plug-in is working fine. Database Query I have 22 country of origins, Statistics Plug-in 22 .

7. Who are your top three actors?
John Wayne
Robert Englund
Cary Grant

8. Who are your top three directors?
Steven Spielberg
Wes Craven
Clint Eastwood

9. Who are your top three screenwriters?
Stephen King
Wes Craven
Clive Barker

10. Who are your top three producers?
Harvey Weinstein
Bob Weinstein
Joel Silver

11. Who are your top three composers?
John Williams
Jerry Goldsmith
Marco Beltrami

Thanks for the info on this plug-in.
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All excluding TV-series:

1. What's your oldest movie and which year was it produced?
Nosferatu - Eine Symphonie des Grauens 1922

2. What are your three most common production years?
1999, 2002, 2005

3. How many different countries of origin do you have?
17

4. What are your top three genres?
Suspense/Thriller, Drama, Horror

5. What are your top three studios?
Paramount, Warner Bros., Universal

6. What are your most common ratings?
FSK-16, FSK-12, 15

7. Who are your top three actors?
Samuel L. Jackson 22
Michelle Pfeiffer 22
Jennifer Jason Leigh 20

8. Who are your top three directors?
John Carpenter 13
Alfred Hitchcock 13
David Cronenberg 12

9. Who are your top three screenwriters?
George A. Romero 12
George Lucas 11
John Carpenter 10

10. Who are your top three producers?
Bob Weinstein 41
Harvey Weinstein 40
Arnon Milchan 20

11. Who are your top three composers?
Danny Elfman 29
Jerry Goldsmith 28
Howard Shore 26
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