Tag: Film and television
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Where every film was shot: film cities, foreign productions and James Bond on one map
I mapped the filming locations of 23,468 films in Wikidata: Los Angeles, New York, London and Paris lead, Canada hosts the most foreign productions, and the 25 Eon Bond films visited 36 countries and territories.
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Where every film director is from
I mapped the birthplaces of 43,619 film directors in Wikidata: New York and Paris lead, Prague and Copenhagen lead per head, Asia’s share has grown since the 1950s, one in seven made their films abroad, and women went from 3% of new directors in the 1920s to 32% in the 2020s.
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Did Detectorists start a boom?
A gentle BBC comedy is often credited with getting Britain out detecting. Twenty-two years of UK searches and Portable Antiquities Scheme finds say it made a splash, not a wave.
