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Alias:
Sam Y. Emerson
Sam Young Emerson

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Film Production

Director of Photography:
1992  Michael Jackson: Live in Bucharest - The Dangerous Tour

Still Photographer:
1985  Brother Where You Bound
1987  He's My Girl
1989  Driving Miss Daisy
1989  Little Monsters
1990  Rocky V
1992  Michael Jackson: Live in Bucharest - The Dangerous Tour
1992  Sleepwalkers
1992  The Mambo Kings
1992  Trespass
1993  Geronimo: An American Legend
1996  Daylight
1997  Cop Land
1997  Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
1998  The Negotiator
1999  The Minus Man
1999  True Crime
2000  Rules of Engagement
2001  Planet of the Apes
2002  Star Trek: Nemesis
2003  Bringing Down the House
2003  Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde
2003  The Hunted
2005  American Gun
2005  Shopgirl
2005  Sky High
2005  The Dukes of Hazzard
2006  Mini's First Time
2008  Cloverfield
2012  The Guilt Trip
2013  Night Train to Lisbon
2015  Extraction
2015  Heist
2015  The Diary of a Teenage Girl
2015  Vice
2016  I Saw the Light
2016  The Magnificent Seven

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About the Movie Section

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:

  • I added "runners up" to Top 10 lists, treating them as ties where applicable and numbering them accordingly at the bottom of each list.
  • Regarding those polls wherein "franchise" movies were submitted as one project until BFI's policy changed to regard them separately, I treated them as ties and renumbered the affected lists accordingly (e.g. the Godfather films).

Regarding profile removals and data corrections:

  • If you would like your profile removed from this site, please contact the source of this data directly, TheMovieDB. My assumption is: once it's gone from their site, it should soon be gone from this site.
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  • For additional corrections and profile removals, please e-mail The Open Movie Database (OMDb).

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.