[Data-modeling] Film: new property experiment on sandbox this week, featured song in film

[Gordon Mackenzie]

Sorry, it is here:

http://sandbox.freebase.com/type/view/film/film_featured_song

Schema

http://sandbox.freebase.com/type/schema/film/film?domain=%2Ffilm

~ Gordon

<<< gordon at metaweb.com >>>



On Nov 5, 2008, at 12:19 PM, Kurt Bollacker wrote:

>
> On Wed, Nov 05, 2008 at 11:49:36AM -0800, Robert Cook wrote:
>> +1
>
> Me too.  Do you have a proposed name?
>
>> On Nov 5, 2008, at 11:38 AM, Gordon Mackenzie wrote:
>>
>>> For Hollywood films from the early talkies to the early eighties  
>>> there
>>> would often be a featured popular song or two (usually specifically
>>> written for the film). The song would be sold as a single (a  
>>> precursor
>>> to the slick commmercialized prepackaged would be mega-hit  
>>> soundtrack
>>> albums with Top-40 pop songs barely heard in the actual film in the
>>> 1980s onwards). Even more recently a film would occasionally use a a
>>> particular song to such great effect that it could often be referred
>>> as that movies theme song (if not literally within the songs title).
>>>
>>> "Moon River" for "Breakfast at Tiffany's"
>>>
>>> "The Way We Were" for movie of the same name.
>>>
>>> "As Time Goes By" for "Casablanca"
>>>
>>> "Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head" for "Butch Cassidy and the
>>> Sundance Kid"
>>>
>>> "In Your Eyes" for Say Anything
>>>
>>> NOTE that this property is not meant for all music pieces within a
>>> film, that's what the film score/soundtrack property captures quite
>>> adequately. This is hopefully to be used for songs that are  
>>> indelibly
>>> linked to the film. I'd like to specifically capture the  
>>> relationship
>>> within the film type. What does the community think?
>>>
>>>
>>> ~ Gordon
>>>
>>> <<< gordon at metaweb.com >>>
>>>
>>>
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