Get your rest. I have a feeling there are background check systems you can use if you're not in the US, but they would just be the sketchiest sites ever. Maybe there's some other trick I could use, like tricking Netflix to think you're in America.
Alright, so first of all, like I said on my previous post, I asked Joan Jett on her official Twitter about the movie, though the chances of her responding are next to 0 (hell, I doubt she's even the one administrating that Twitter account, though it is registered so it's definitely hers)
I searched a bit more about Olafsson but still nothing, I only get results of some football player with a very similar name. And every biography I find about him only says: "Rikaard Dam Olafsson is an actor, known for Talking About the Weather (1994)", I also searched for a bit if this football player has appeared in any movie or something, in case they're both the same guy, but it appears that's not the case
As for the links senshisun provided earlier, I checked both of them, I tried to get Sandler's background, but in one of the websites it says that I have to be an US resident so it won't let me, and on the other one it asks me to register an account with my facebook, and since I suffer of slight paranoia and slight OCD it kinda freaks me out to do so. However, on one of the websites it said this Sandler's supposed previous places of residence, and one of them is Palo Alto, California, and I checked on google maps and (I think) Stanford university seems to be located pretty close, so I'd say, chances of "this" Sandler being "our" Sandler are around 70%I
I tried to get access to the information in the second link and it seems like you have to be in the US to get that information too. It also says it searches the Deep Web for information, so definitely read the terms and conditions in full before getting the information. It's creepy.
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When browsing the LMW's pages pending approval, I noticed the last item on the list was "Vocaloid KAITO Append Dropped Voicebank (dropped since the software moved from V2 to V3)". As someone who uses the Vocaloid software, I don't think this is notable enough for its own page.
We have two options:
1) Make a page for all of the Vocaloid voicebanks that were never released, with KAITO V2 Append as a section in the article. 2) Not create the page at all.
I'm going to try to give people enough information to make a decision on the matter, but I encourage you all to do your own research.
What is Vocaloid?
Vocaloid is a program created and patented by Yamaha that creates virtual singers. It is, at its simplest, a MIDI sample bank where the samples are phonemes of a given language. There have been four versions of the software, as well as online, app, and Mac-supported versions of the software. These are called V1, V2, V3, and V4, respectively.
Vocaloid can be split into two distinct parts. One is the Vocaloid program itself, which has all the code and the interface needed to run the program. However, there are no voices included with the system. Vocaloid voicebanks must be produced separately from the main system.
What is a Vocaloid Voicebank?
A voicebank is the set of samples for Vocaloid software. They contain every phoneme necessary for a user to create songs in a language. In Vocaloid 2 onward, there are also some extra phonemes for breaths and other sounds.
Voicebanks are set up to accept input for one language, although there are some that can accept input for multiple languages. There are Japanese, English, Spanish, Korean. and Chinese voicebanks available, each with their own dictionaries that the user can customise. Each voicebank has a name, which the users use to identify them.
What is KAITO?
KAITO (or Kaito, it doesn't really matter) is the second voice bank released for Japanese users. It is a male voice created by Yamaha and produced by Crypton Future Media, the company that would later go on to make the "ain't Japan wacky" trend known as Hatsune Miku. It was released in 2006. The voicebank was provided by Naoto Fuuga.
The Vocaloid 1 voicebanks were known for having many problems with sampling. Having one voice limited how many genres of songs a user could make with the software. Because of these problems, Crypton decided to release new versions of the software.
What is KAITO V2 Append?
Kaito V2 Append was a voicebank that fixed some of the problems with the original voicebank. It had several different types of voices to choose from. When the product was announced, the company was not sure whether they would release it for V2 or the upcoming V3. The planned appends were Mellow, Serious, Sweet, and Solid.
The V3 append came out in February 2013, three years after the first announcement. It was released with Straight, Soft, Whisper, and English voicebanks. V3 was incompatible with V1, so that likely helped settle the decision of what to do with the voicebank.
Even though the planned V2 appends were no doubt recorded and went into testing, if Crypton Future Media still has the voicebanks on a server somewhere, the results are probably glitchy, messy and unsatisfying. The voice samples would probably not be interesting, either.
What other Vocaloid voicebanks were not released?
There are seventeen voicebanks that were not released to the public, according to the Vocaloid Wiki. In addition, there was a planned V3 Megurine Luka voicebank that was transferred to V4 for its final release. Alys was going to be a French-language Vocaloid but was never released. There could be others that I've missed.
What is the argument for leaving unreleased Vocaloid voicebanks off the LMW?
Vocaloid is mostly popular in Japan. Most of the unreleased voicebanks were created for a Japanese audience. There are probably unreleased English voicebanks that were not even announced because English is a very difficult language to record. Mostly, it seems like we could use the same argument here that we did for dubs.
In Conclusion
I hope this is enough information for you guys to get a basic idea of the situation. I hope to have a good discussion with you.
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Looks like the Film Arts website does direct to a hotel website, but part of the website does have information about the film festival. It's probably where the festival is currently hosted. The other festival website does appear to have information about this film festival.
The Wayback Machine only has information from 1998 and onward. Other records also have this problem.
Maybe they list Joan Jett's name as "?" because her name was never mentioned in the short.
Could you please try to contact him and ask him about the movie? If he's not the guy he'll just say "what are you talking about?", worst case scenario he won't respond. I have important business to attend to today and it'll take me the whole day, so I won't be able to look for anything until late tonight
I'm not quite used enough to lost media searching to randomly phone someone yet.
Mintymint, it seems like those web pages just seem to by copying off of each other.
If you mean Nancy D. Kates Self, I looked her up too, but I think it might be a different person. It seems she has nothing to do with filmmaking.
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Looks like the Film Arts website does direct to a hotel website, but part of the website does have information about the film festival. It's probably where the festival is currently hosted. The other festival website does appear to have information about this film festival.
The Wayback Machine only has information from 1998 and onward. Other records also have this problem.
Maybe they list Joan Jett's name as "?" because her name was never mentioned in the short.
I thought the dragon might appear in the telescope. Not because I've seen the intro, but because that would be so much cooler than LaVar.
Info found on the Community wiki: Reading Rainbow was an American children's TV program which originally aired on PBS from June 5 1983 to November 10, 2006. It was hosted by actor LeVar Burton and its purpose was to encourage kids to read. It was one of three longest running PBS children's show running from June 6, 1983 until November 10, 2006. The theme song for the show was written by Steve Horelick, Dennis Neil Kleinman, and performed by Tina Fabrique. This version was used until 1999 and was replaced by one sung by R&B artist Chaka Khan.
So Steve Horelick, Dennis Neil Kleinman, Tina Fabrique, and Chaka Kan might all be people to contact.
However, it's extremely odd that a version of the theme song used for an entire season could go missing like this. I found the comments you were talking about, and took screenshots of them for further reference.
Where did LaVar appear in the old intro? After the telescope scene, it doesn't look like there's room for him to appear and keep the continuity. In the last shot, it does look like LaVar was green screened seperately, due to the positioning between him and the kids.
Between 1999-2000, it doesn't seem like new episodes were being made. Some new episodes were shown in May 2000 to April 2001. My source is Wikipedia, though.
This was a CBC playground show that ran in the late 1990s. It was hosted by a woman and a dog puppet. I can't find many references to it online. Anyone else remember it?
It looks like most of the sources are directly copied from Wikipedia, and Wikipedia doesn't have any source regarding it. How frustrating.
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