A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Alias:
Dulcie Sybil Holland
Birthplace:
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Born:
January 5, 1913
Died:
May 21, 2000
Dulcie Sybil Holland was born in Sydney in 1913. From an early age she was into music, beginning piano lessons at only 6 years old. As a young student, Holland honed her musical skills at the prestigious Sydney Conservatorium (then the New South Wales Conservatorium of Music). By age 20, she had completed both a Diploma and Licentiate of the Royal Schools of Music. At 23, Holland made the decision to travel to London for further music education. But when World War II started, Holland ended her studies prematurely and returned to Australia. Throughout the 1940s she worked as a recitalist and freelance composer. Then, in the 1950s, she wrote musical scores for documentaries produced by the Australian government – her name is credited on over forty such productions. In 1967, she became an examiner at the Australian Music Examinations Board. In this capacity, she wrote large numbers of musical studies, music theory books and textbooks. By her retirement in 1983, Holland had become one of Australia's most prolific and celebrated music authors. She died in 2000 aged 87.
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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.
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