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March 25[edit]

Question re: FILM[edit]

I'm trying to get a handle on the number of non-professional films that are made every year -- of any length, in any genre (live action, animation, documentary, etc.)? An informed guess would help. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bdrael (talk • contribs) 01:36, 25 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

If you're counting parents' films of their kids' birthday parties and such, I'd guess maybe a few billion. StuRat (talk) 05:28, 25 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Since nobody seems to have answers I'll try to break it down. What do you mean by film? Just on celluloid, or video? Is every time you turn your video camera (camera phone, etc) on a film, or when you edit it and put it together in a more formal way? Also, do you include CCTV footage? It's hard to find exact figures but it's claimed there are at least 17 million[1] surveillance cameras worldwide, many recording 365 days a year, so that's a lot of videos, 5 billion if you count each day as a recording, more if you subdivide further. But maybe you discount it, as most is deleted soon after recording.

You could divide it by surveillance camera, cine camera, video camera (tape or digital), digital camera with video recording, and camera phone with video recording. There are probably far more camera phones than any other recording devices (over one billion[2]; the camera phone article has some info), but it's hard to know how often they are used, and not all will record video. IDC and Gartner will sell you reports on cameraphone usage for a few thousand dollars, but I can't find any free information that will tell you how often people use cameraphones with video recording. If you know that you might be able to work out how many video recordings are made with cameraphones. If half of all cameraphones record video, and people use them on average 10 times a year (some will use very often but many will not use at all), that's 5 billion recordings. At a guess. So StuRat's estimate's probably not far off.

The number of videos shared online is only a small fraction of that; there are something like 100m videos on YouTube, though authoritative figures seem lacking[3][4] but many of them will be repostings of commercial video.--Maltelauridsbrigge (talk) 15:21, 26 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Is Exotic City chasing the German band Tokio Hotel?[edit]

Exotic City Has been seen with the German band Tokio Hotel in Miami FL.Sources say they have been getting close to the band lately.Sad'e one of the members of exotic city have been rumored to be stalking Georg Listing.He has been seen running away from her screaming: "I have a girlfriend in Germany you crazy bitch!". Susana, another member of Exotic City has been doing the same to Tom Kaulitz but he is just ignored her. Sources saw her cry.

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