A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Frank Toogood has been an award-winning designer within the creative industry for over two decades. At the beginning of his career Frank also served eleven years as a Territorial with the 70th (Essex Yeomanry) Signal Squadron, which was part of 71st (Yeomanry) Signal Regiment (V). During this time his passion for military history grew to the point where he decided to become a battlefield guide. Frank joined the International Guild of Battlefield Guides in 2006 and in 2008 after qualifying, was very proud to be presented his Guide's Badge from the late Prof. Richard Holmes. Besides running 'The Battlefield Guide', Frank also freelances for a number of other battlefield tour providers. Contact: toogood@me.com www.thebattlefieldguide.com www.typonic.com
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.