A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Alias:
Mike Pitts
Director of Photography:
1990 The Trials of Life
2003 Smart Sharks: Swimming With Roboshark
2007 Wild Caribbean
2011 Desert Seas
2016 A Plastic Ocean
Underwater Director of Photography:
1990 The Trials of Life
2003 Smart Sharks: Swimming With Roboshark
2007 Wild Caribbean
2011 Desert Seas
2016 A Plastic Ocean
2021 Perpetual Planet: Heroes of the Oceans
Additional Photography:
1998 The Life of Birds
2022 Prehistoric Planet
Director of Photography:
1998 The Life of Birds
1999 Walking with Dinosaurs
2003 Sea Monsters
2005 Amazon Abyss
2008 Oceans
2022 Prehistoric Planet
Underwater Camera:
1998 The Life of Birds
1999 Walking with Dinosaurs
2003 Sea Monsters
2005 Amazon Abyss
2008 Oceans
2008 Pacific Abyss
2022 Prehistoric Planet
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.