Do you have a movie made from every year in your collection?
 

Consider this the Ultimate-DVD-Collector question for the day -biggrin-
Do you have a movie made from every year in your collection?

I'm sure there's a few of you out there who might have Edison: The Invention of the Movies:1889-1918)
or More Treasures from American Film Archives (1894-1931) (And so forth) which could help you out.

The oldest I've got are the early Wizard of Oz shorts from '10 and '14. Not much else after that.

The only closest streak I can get is from 1929-2006. I'm only missing titles from '34,'50,and '56. Not bad. (My Silent German Horror box set should be arriving soon, so that might expand my timeline back further)

I'm not counting toons or those theatrical shorts from the 30's & '40s. Films only.

I'm not even close...

I've got 1894 ~ 2006 with only three exceptions.....

1917, 1918, 1924


edit ~ if we're counting shorts as extras contained on DVDs then I've got 1917 and 1924 via Trouble in Paradise (Criterion) and A nous la liberte (Criterion) respectively.

After checking out your collection, I noticed:
The Movies Begin-A Treasury of Early Cinema
That's the other box set I was going for in my first post. Thanks.

Nice run you got there!

No, why would I?

Have at least one from each year from 1930 - 2005

Got every year from 1929-2006

I almost have 1935-2006 but I have 3 years that are not represented.

Years I'm missing: 1957, 1965, 1967

There's also "Landmarks of Early Film". I've recently undertaken the task of collecting the key works of cinema - starting with the Edison and AFI archives sets, Melies, Lumiere Bros, etc., and using David A. Cooks, "A History of Narrative Film" as a guide (a book that I read in the 80's that really got me into cinema) and progressing to the present day. That should be close to every year. So much of this stuff was difficult to see, much less obtain back when I read the book, until DVD came along.

Nothing before 1962 here.

I have 74 and onward....

The fun thing about this thread is seeing the particular years that people don't have a movie from and then looking at what notable movies were released in those years. (i.e. 1950 - Sunset Boulevard, The Asphalt Jungle, Rashomon, All About Eve; 1956 - The Searchers; 1967 - The Dirty Dozen, Bonnie and Clyde, The Graduate) Personally, 1926 is the most recent year I don't have.

Nah. There aren't a whole lot of films that I enjoyed from the '70s and '80s.

Which has been on my wishlist for awhile.

Any recommendations for '34?

I've got 1994-2005.

Everything from the 30s except 1963 and 1967. I'm not a big fans of the 60s I suppose.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0025316/

http://www.deepdiscountdvd.com/dvd.cfm?itemID=COL003949

I have every year from 1927 to the present one.

As for the silent era there are quite a few years missing, but I really need to catalogue all the early Chaplin shorts and odd fragments from public domain discs (like Stan Laurel's send-up of Blood and Sand.)

I must try to fill the gaps.

It Happened One Night
March of the Wooden Soldiers (aka Babes in Toyland)
The Thin Man
Twentieth Century

I'm positive I don't have every year within my collection but I do have at least 1 from each decade from the '30s ("Dead End") onward.

Nothing from the '20s either but Chaplin's "The Immigrant" (1917) is an extra on "Au Revoir, Les Enfants" CC.

Starting from 1927 (but I do have one movie from 1920), these are the unrepresented years in my collection:

'34, '41, '65, '67, '69, '72, '73, '76, '91, '96

W/ the exception of '46 and '47 I have something from 1940 to 2006.

Very interesting Thread. I hadn't thought to verify the years in my DVD Profiler.

Starting with 1915 I have films from every year to the present. I do have earlier films released in the Treasures from American Film Archives.

So again, good topic which brought to light an interesting fun fact about my collection.

I have at least one for every year from 1919 through 2005, except 1981.

I've got from 1928 - 2006 with the exceptions of 1936 and 1948. Further back than that, it's just a random speckling, and I didn't count things like shorts, etc.

Mike, don't bother with "Landmarks of Early Film." It's been superceded by Kino's much more comprehensive "The Movies Begin" boxset. David Shepard put together the two "Landmarks" discs after Film Preservation Associates broke with Kino and started issuing DVDs on their own. But the Kino boxset reissues an earlier VHS collection that contains all the films on the two "Landmarks" discs -- and more.

At least back to the mid-60's I do. Of course my collection really thins out when you go below the late 70's.

I have DVDs with films produced or released in every year between 1894 and 2005.

The Silent era is well-represented in three boxsets: Unseen Cinema: 1894-1941, Treasures from American Film Archives, and More Treasures from American Film Archives: 1894-1931.

Beginning in 1919, the years in which I own the fewest films are (curiously) 1980 (Elephant Man) and 1981 (Lola; Vernon, Florida; and Pennies from Heaven). The best-represented year in my collection is 1959, with 20 titles.

also from 1934:

It's a Gift (arguably, W.C. Fields' best film)
Man of Aran (Robert Flaherty)
A Story of Floating Weeds (Ozu Yasujiro)
The Scarlet Empress (Josef von Sternberg)
L'Atalante (Jean Vigo)

Also Lubitsch's The Merry Widow
Alexander Korda's The Scarlet Pimpernel
The Count of Monte Cristo with Robert Donat
Laurel and Hardy's Babes in Toyland
Edgar G. Ulmer's The Black Cat
John Ford's The Lost Patrol
and Pagnol's Angele

In fact, 1934 was a pretty damn good year!

Just for the heck of it, I checked, and my biggest stretch of films is 1971-2005, although it would be 1960-2005 including TV shows. (All I have for 1967 and 1970 are Spider-man cartoons)
That actually goes back even further than I thought it would, and a few years wouldn't be there without a couple of multi-movie sets I have.

I have one from each year in the 2000s (except for '03 and '05)

How would I even easily determine this?

My 804 B.C. section is a little thin...

I have 1927-2006 covered. It was fun gathering all those together. And I didn't buy anything specifically for it's year. They were all legitimate movies I was interested in.

If you use DVD Profiler, go to Charts and Graphs --> Statistics, then under "General" select "Production Year." It will show you a graph with how many titles you have in each year represented. Look for missing years.

There are some caveats though. A boxed set will have a single year assigned to it, which is usually the year of the first film chronologically. Also, bear in mind that a non-film, such as a TV show or concert, will have a year assigned to it.

1936 - Chaplin's Modern Times, La Cava's My Man Godfrey, Renoir's A Day in the Country and The Crime of Monsieur Lange

1948 - Sturges' Unfaithfully Yours, Olivier's Hamlet, Powell & Pressburger's The Red Shoes, Lean's Oliver Twist, De Sica's The Bicycle Thief, Huston's The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

I don't have any of the 1936 ones you listed. I do have Oliver Twist, and just didn't see it because it was tucked away inside the Great Adaptations boxset section, with a production year of 0. Thanks.

I have every year from 1929 on. I have 3 that say they're from 1928 but they are all Disney Treasures, and one from 1927 (Sunrise). Also only one (V for Vendetta) from 2006. 2 from 1925 (The Gold Rush and Battleship Potemkin), one from 1915 (Birth of a Nation)

Ambassador - thanks for the tip! I have the Landmarks... on LD, but this will save the double format dip. I worship David Shepard.