OK, a geeky classification question for the Dope.
Say you’ve got a movie that continues the story of a television show, either after it ends or between seasons that uses all the same actors/characters/writers/creators/what nots. For example…
Should those be shelved with movies or with the television shows?
I’d shelf them with the series on the grounds that they would be of interest primarily (if not exclusively) to devoted fans of those series.
ETA: Something that had a wide theatrical release, like the South Park or Simpsons movie, would be a closer call.
Agreed. The Simpsons Movie and The X-Files movies are definitely shelved with the movies.
I’m too lazy and haphazard to have a shelving system for my DVDs, but if I did shelve movies and TV series separately, I’d put theatrical releases (like the Simpsons movie, the South Park movie, Serenity, the X-Files movie, etc.) with the movies, and I’d put made-for-TV and direct-to-DVD “movies” (which I think of more as movie-length episodes) like those the OP mentioned with the TV series.
For me it depends if the movie is part of the TV show’s continuity. South Park definitely is. The events of the movie have been referenced more than once in the TV show. Futurama is. Spongebob isn’t. Simpsons is somewhat more of a gray area, unless I’ve missed an overt reference to the movie in the last two years, which is possible. MASH is not.
The Sex In The City movie wrapped up the series, but it was a theatrical release that could be enjoyed separate from the show (I saw it - hardly saw the show). I wouldn’t put that with the show’s DVDs.
If you’re talking personal, home-library collection, I’d say put the movies in plot order, so for Razor, that’d go between seasons 2 and 3 of the Battlestar Galactica episodes.
If you’re talking a public library, if it’s popular enough to matter to most people, you’ll probably want a couple copies anyway, so put half with the TV episodes, the other half with movies.
It’s cute you think public libraries have that kind of money.
For the record, this is for a public library and there is only one copy of all the movies involved (although demand might force me to get a second copy of 24: Redemption).
If there is a section for TV series and a section for movies, TV series should go in the TV series section and movies should go in the movies section, no? Especially if there’s only one copy.
I mean, if I’m looking for a movie called Serenity in “Movies” under “ser” and don’t find it, that’s pretty clear-cut, isn’t it? If not, then it becomes halfway reasonable to put Undeclared with Freaks and Geeks and The simpsons Movie in TV under “ullm.”
But that’s my question. Should these “movies” be classified as movies or TV series’? Especially for things like 24 Redemption because it takes place between season 6 and season 7 of the show.
I say include them with one, and at the other, have a sign that says “for movies connected with TV shows, see (other section)”.
Everyone will find what they’re looking for.
I agree with cmkeller - I would put them all with the tv series (either in their chronological place, or at the end), but have a ‘placeholder’ with perhaps a copy of the cover in the ‘film’ section, pointing them back to the TV section.
There was a chalkboard gag (“I WILL NOT WAIT EIGHTEEN YEARS TO MAKE ANOTHER MOVIE”), and the pig appeared in a few episodes in the first season following the movie.
ETA: is the OP talking about shelving his own collection, or putting them up in a retail establishment?
Fine idea, but not realistic in a library with space concerns.
Why separate movies and TV shows at all? Separate them by genre, not medium. And within Genre, sort alphabetically by title. So you can have a Science Fiction section that with all of Star Trek kept together, including both the various TV series and the movies.
Because that’s how the public searches for them. Some want TV shows while others want movies and those that are looking for only one, don’t want the other in their way.
And we don’t have a large enough collection to separate by genre.
My cataloger friend respondeth:
What’s with the apostrophe?
One TV series. Twelve TV series.
The Simpsons Movie is a movie. The 24 movie is a movie. The Get Smart movie is a movie. None of these is a series, because a series is a series and a movie is not a series, because it’s a movie.
Seriously, if there’s a “TV series” section and a “Movie” section, dividing things by something other than TV series and Movie needlessly complicates things.
Good:
TV SERIES MOVIES
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TV series Movie
TV series Movie
TV series Movie
TV series Movie
Bad, wrong, and unholy:
TV SERIES MOVIES
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TV series Movie
Movie Movie
Movie Movie
TV series Movie
I feel like I’m in IHOP and I just overheard someone say “If it weren’t for my horse, I wouldn’ta spent that year in college.”
Do you really not understand the difference between a theatrical remake of a classic TV series and a TV/Direct-To-DVD movie direct continuation of a TV series?