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THE TCM MOVIE DATABASE

An attempt to make the worlds best online classic movie resource.

I was the creator, architect, and supervisor of TCM Movie Database, one of the most widely used online classic film resources in the world.  No other resource online contained more information on classic films (neither Wikipedia or IMDB).  In its prime, it was heavily indexed with Wikipedia and used by millions of users every month.  It had over 3 million records, including 1.5 million people.  It included deep, extensive knowledge on classic film you could not find anywhere with deep clip and photo galleries, AFI Catalog information, and and extensive bonus content of screenplays, studio correspondence and other incredible ephemera we indexed and uploaded from Studio archives.  You could also find some of the very best film writing available anywhere on the web, all written exclusively.  While it never had the funding or resources it needed, it was a labor of love and remained an integral part of TCM’s legacy and fulfilled a key mission goal for the network: to the very best curator of classic films.  

 Movie Database {2020}

Legacy Database Design

Early days

Special Thanks: John Miller, Timothy Whitney, Josh Lubin

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