Cinema Zoologie 1915–1936: A film programming database

The dataset consists of 5469 individual records (films or music pieces), forming 898 cinema-concert programs. Each record (= each line) in the dataset corresponds to one program element from a Cinema Zoologie program. This can be a film showing, a musical performance, or a theatrical number.

(Many of the dataset’s fields are specific to film showings, and hence are left empty in the case of musical or theatrical performances.) Each record has the following fields. When a field is left empty, this means that the information was not available to the researchers. Number: Fixed record number Type: The type of program element (F for film, M for musical performance, T for theatrical performance) Original title: The title of the film (or musical composition, or theatre show) in its original language Dutch title: The Dutch title which was used for presenting the film in the Cinema Zoologie program French title: The French title which was used for presenting the film in the Cinema Zoologie program IMDb identifier: The URL that identifies this particular film at the Internet Movie Database (IMDb) Director: The director(s) of the film.

When more than one director was involved, the names are separated by semicolons (e.g. Max Obal; Rudolf Walther-Fein). Year: The year when the film was originally released Country: The country (or countries) where the film was produced. (A list of countries may be found below under "Abbreviations".) In case of co-productions, multiple countries are separated by a slash (e.g. D / F for Germany / France).

Producer: The company which produced the film Program identifier:The archival record number of the program booklet where the information for this record was found Start date: The date of the first screening (or performance), using the format dd-mm-yyyy End date: The date of the last screening (or performance), using the format dd-mm-yyyy Description: Additional information (in French or Dutch) about the film, given in the program booklet The dataset is stored in the tab-separated values (TSV) format.

This was chosen as an alternative to the common comma-separated values (CSV) format, which often causes difficulties because of the need to avoid commas. The text encoding of the TSV file is UTF-8. ----- DANS added a .csv version of the data file and has added a copy of the above remarks to the dataset in a file titled 'remarks.txt'.