The recent announcement of from the New York Public Library on its +results in +identifying +books published in the USA that are now in the public domain, +inspired me to update the scripts I use to track down movies that are +in the public domain. This involved updating the script used to +extract lists of movies believed to be in the public domain, to work +with the latest version of the source web sites. In particular the +new edition of the Retro Film +Vault web site now seem to list all the films available from that +distributor, bringing the films identified there to more than 12.000 +movies, and I was able to connect 46% of these to IMDB titles.
+ +The new total is 16307 IMDB IDs (aka films) in the public domain or +creative commons licensed, and unknown status for 31460 movies +(possibly duplicates of the 16307).
+ +The complete data set is available from +a +public git repository, including the scripts used to create it.
+ +Anyway, this is the summary of the 28 collected data sources so +far:
+ ++ 2361 entries ( 50 unique) with and 22472 without IMDB title ID in free-movies-archive-org-search.json + 2363 entries ( 146 unique) with and 0 without IMDB title ID in free-movies-archive-org-wikidata.json + 299 entries ( 32 unique) with and 93 without IMDB title ID in free-movies-cinemovies.json + 88 entries ( 52 unique) with and 36 without IMDB title ID in free-movies-creative-commons.json + 3190 entries ( 1532 unique) with and 13 without IMDB title ID in free-movies-fesfilm-xls.json + 620 entries ( 24 unique) with and 283 without IMDB title ID in free-movies-fesfilm.json + 1080 entries ( 165 unique) with and 651 without IMDB title ID in free-movies-filmchest-com.json + 830 entries ( 13 unique) with and 0 without IMDB title ID in free-movies-icheckmovies-archive-mochard.json + 19 entries ( 19 unique) with and 0 without IMDB title ID in free-movies-imdb-c-expired-gb.json + 7410 entries ( 7101 unique) with and 0 without IMDB title ID in free-movies-imdb-c-expired-us.json + 1205 entries ( 41 unique) with and 0 without IMDB title ID in free-movies-imdb-pd.json + 163 entries ( 22 unique) with and 88 without IMDB title ID in free-movies-infodigi-pd.json + 158 entries ( 103 unique) with and 0 without IMDB title ID in free-movies-letterboxd-looney-tunes.json + 113 entries ( 4 unique) with and 0 without IMDB title ID in free-movies-letterboxd-pd.json + 182 entries ( 71 unique) with and 0 without IMDB title ID in free-movies-letterboxd-silent.json + 248 entries ( 85 unique) with and 0 without IMDB title ID in free-movies-manual.json + 158 entries ( 4 unique) with and 64 without IMDB title ID in free-movies-mubi.json + 85 entries ( 1 unique) with and 23 without IMDB title ID in free-movies-openflix.json + 520 entries ( 22 unique) with and 244 without IMDB title ID in free-movies-profilms-pd.json + 343 entries ( 14 unique) with and 10 without IMDB title ID in free-movies-publicdomainmovies-info.json + 701 entries ( 16 unique) with and 560 without IMDB title ID in free-movies-publicdomainmovies-net.json + 74 entries ( 13 unique) with and 60 without IMDB title ID in free-movies-publicdomainreview.json + 698 entries ( 16 unique) with and 118 without IMDB title ID in free-movies-publicdomaintorrents.json + 5506 entries ( 2941 unique) with and 6585 without IMDB title ID in free-movies-retrofilmvault.json + 16 entries ( 0 unique) with and 0 without IMDB title ID in free-movies-thehillproductions.json + 110 entries ( 2 unique) with and 29 without IMDB title ID in free-movies-two-movies-net.json + 73 entries ( 20 unique) with and 131 without IMDB title ID in free-movies-vodo.json +16307 unique IMDB title IDs in total, 12509 only in one list, 31460 without IMDB title ID ++ +
New this time is a list of all the identified IMDB titles, with +title, year and running time, provided in free-complete.json. this +file also indiciate which source is used to conclude the video is free +to distribute.
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