A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Director:
2010 Please Accept This Ring... On Farmville
2011 The Collective Evolution
2013 Hollywood's History of Faking It: The Evolution of Greenscreen Compositing
2013 Origins of Film Noir
2013 The Changing Shape of Cinema: The History of Aspect Ratio
2013 The Evolution of Home Theater - Big Tech of the Small Screen
2013 The History and Science of Color Film: From Isaac Newton to the Coen Brothers
2013 The History of Horror
2013 The Psychology of Scary Movies
2019 Outta Sync
2021 Why Yellow is So Common for TV Graphics
Writer:
2010 Please Accept This Ring... On Farmville
2011 The Collective Evolution
2013 Hollywood's History of Faking It: The Evolution of Greenscreen Compositing
2013 Origins of Film Noir
2013 The Changing Shape of Cinema: The History of Aspect Ratio
2013 The Evolution of Home Theater - Big Tech of the Small Screen
2013 The History and Science of Color Film: From Isaac Newton to the Coen Brothers
2013 The History of Horror
2013 The Psychology of Scary Movies
2019 Outta Sync
2021 Why Yellow is So Common for TV Graphics
Most data and links to images for the Movies section come from TheMovieDB (TMDB).
Additional data for Film Titles come from The Open Movie Database (OMDb).
At least one plug-in comes from IMDb.
Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)
While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:
Regarding profile removals and data corrections:
Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).
Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.
Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.