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How to profile a collection of commercials?
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DVD Profiler Unlimited RegistrantStar ContributorCubbyUps
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Just wondering how to profile a box set of tv commercials.

2 disc set that is held in a box.

Could I handle it like a tv series and put all the info (including stars) in the main profile for the box set, or would I handle it like a film box set and only have cast & specs in the child profiles?
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I have a 2 disc boxset of old classic commercials too. I was basically wondering the same thing on how to handle it... but since I like to keep that stuff in the child profiles only Locally I decided to hold off on messing with it myself.

but unfortunately I can't answer your question for sure... but I was leaning towards treating as a TV Series.. after all they are TV commercials.
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I would say that you handle it like you would a tv series or a collection of shorts - use dividers to separate the cast.
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I would do them the same way I do collections of cartoon shorts. One profile, using dividers to separate cast and crew

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I would do them the same way I do collections of cartoon shorts. One profile, using dividers to separate cast and crew

That is how I see it.
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I would do them the same way I do collections of cartoon shorts. One profile, using dividers to separate cast and crew

That is how I see it.

This will get interesting if applied to something like "Charley Says" where disc 1 alone has 157 commercials, many of which have no cast listings as things stand!
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Looks like I'll handle it like a tv series then.

There really isn't that many well known people that stars in the commercials. Many are just standard un-knowns.

So I was leaning to just list the well known stars without dividers.
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I would do them the same way I do collections of cartoon shorts. One profile, using dividers to separate cast and crew

That is how I see it.

This will get interesting if applied to something like "Charley Says" where disc 1 alone has 157 commercials, many of which have no cast listings as things stand!

Well, I was mainly agreeing with "collection of cartoon shorts"... I don't expect commercials to have credits, so I wouldn't expect the cast listing to become overly long...
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Looks like I'll handle it like a tv series then.

There really isn't that many well known people that stars in the commercials. Many are just standard un-knowns.

So I was leaning to just list the well known stars without dividers.


That's actually not the case, at least as far as older stars is concerned.  Back when TV was still ALL LIVE, even commercials, nearly every actor of stature today who has been in the business for a long time, started out in commercials on shows like Arthur Godfrey and Art Linkletter.

Most people tune commercials out (one reason why the volume often goes up when the ads start - to reacquire the viewer's attention), hence they don't pay attention to the people in them.  Lots of stars do commercials inbetween bigger gigs just to keep busy, and because they pay a lot of money for minimal work.
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That is true... whether we know or recognize them or not... several/most of the people in these classic commercials are/had become accomplished actors. Sure you will never get them all... but I am fairly certain most are notable... if you can just find out who they are... and that is the tricky part. So all you can really do is add those you know for sure.
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That's what I'm doing. Just putting in who is either identified either by onscreen credit or vocally. For the ones that aren't identified during the commercial itself, I am identifying them visually.

Of course I don't know who all of these people are. But perhaps others do and can add them later. There are also some animated commercials which may or may not feature voices of famous people, but there is no real way to identify them.

The only thing I can do is put in who I know for sure and let the rest up to others to identify.
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When I was a kid and living on an Army Base in Germany, we would have killed for a tape (pre-DVD) of commercials because they cut them all out of the shows for air on the military network.

That is, until I came back state-side and went back to ignoring them.

Now I have a home-built DVR so I can skip over them with a single press of a button.
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