Saturday 1 December 2007

Read any good film reviews recently?

It was good to read an article entitled Hooray for the internet movie database in this week's Technology Guardian as I normally link to the relevant Internet Movie Database review if I'm publicising an Infusion Film Night. Jack Schofield notes that "the IMDb is still the best place for movie trivia, but few people realise its history as a net pioneer" - the service was actually set up in 1990 and the first web version of the database went live in 1993. Like Jack, I've used it for a long time - I remember promoting it to film studies students and researchers in mid-1990s.

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