Ministry of Science

[jeffbert]

Originally posted by DrFrag@Jun 30 2005, 07:03 AM
The 1980 episode guide is now up at http://astroboy.cjb.cc/episodes1980.php . I think this is the first 1980 series episode guide on the Internet.
There's also a few empty pages for the 2003 guide.

I was just glancing at your episode guide, & must say that from what I saw of it, it is very well done. As my own focus is not on a synoptic view, but rather a discussion of how the stories are handled in different incarnations, I would like to exchange hyperlinks with you. By this I mean that on your page for any given episode whose story or elements thereof had more than 1 incarnation, your page for it would have a link to my own page for it, and mine would likewise link to yours. It willbe a while before I have enough material ready to publish an entire site, butb if my work is available via your own work, I can have some published by the middle of next week.

I just finished my first draft of Gadem/Gadem/Robot Vikings/2003 version (whatever it was called). I have the stories from manga 1-3 ready to publish, and all manga except #17 could be ready very soon.

We can compliment one another's work, & share ideas & resources.

I was working on a site using frames, and perhaps even frames within frames, but am still undecided how to handle it.

[DrFrag]

Once I have more episode guides done, I'm thinking of adding a link such as "This episode is similar to xxxxxx". But not actually go into a discussion or comparison.
I'd be happy to link to your material.
I might go into more detail on character comparisons, but I'm still undecided. I think I'll need to make separate pages for separate series' use of characters (eg. Randolph Holmes in the 80s series and Kato in 2003 - radically different).

Don't worry about not having a complete site, I have over 300 broken links on mine! Gotta fix those character profiles.

Regarding frames, I had originally planned to use frames then I decided to try a more integrated menu like on Astroboy-Online. Unfortunately it means creating dynamic pages or you hve to change every page for one small menu change. I researched a bit of PHP and discovered this...
If your document ends in .php you can insert one page into another with this line in your html code:

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<?php require("sidemenu.html"); ?>

So you create a menu called sidemenu.html (or whatever you want) and it gets inserted into the .php file at that point. The server inserts it as the page is accessed.
Here's an example from my site. This page gets inserted into every episode list and guide:
http://astroboy.cjb.cc/sidebarepisodes.html
(It doesn't look right because I remove the regular HTML header and footer before uploading, so it's missing the CSS references.)
Another problem is that you can't view PHP locally, you have to upload it first. Unless you install an Apache server on your PC. I would recommend XAMPP if you're going to do this.

As for page layout, I'm going to try switching over to CSS instead of using so many nested tables. Here's an overview:
http://www.hotdesign.com/seybold/index.html
It directs the HTML more to page content than layout, the layout is left to the CSS file. Basically, anywhere tables are nested or used for padding they get changed to <DIV> markers and the layout details get put in the CSS file.
If you're up to it, I think it would be great for your site. You could do as much content as you like and not worry about page layout. Then when you want to change the layout you only have to change the CSS file (it's just a small text file).

[jeffbert]

Thanks, but there are several problems:
1. I already know how to use the old stuff, and my work is made with it; thus, I would need to convert tons of content from tables to CSS.
2. I would need to learn new stuff.

[jeffbert]

In re to your 1960s episode list, you might add that one ep exists only in very short snippets of video. 125th Episode: Find the Bacteria: The Audio is intact, and the visuals for the remainder are from story boards. The DVD (disc 24) puts this last on its play list, even though it is not last in the sequence of those eps thereon.

[DrFrag]

Thanks!

[Astro Forever]

I noticed you put some of the musics played in the episodes. I find this information very interesting since I keep trying to identify the pieces as I watch, or should I say listen to the episodes! Are you planning on adding more of them?

If so, here are a few more:

Robot Land: Swan Lake (in particular Spanish Dance, Finale from Act 1 and some other parts)
The Secret of Bee City: Flight of the Bumble Bee by Rimsky-Korsakov
A Robot President: Ninth Symphony by Beethoven, Fourth movement

Some I've yet to find out: the piece in the middle of The Man-Made Solar Sphere, the one at the end of The Girl from Alsoar, at the beginning of The Red Cat (I know St-Saëns' Carnival of the Animals is used throughout the episode, but I don't know about this piece), the Waltz in the Robot Stuntman, the Waltz during the cards dance in Uran's Quest, the piece at the beginning of the Snow Leopard... phew, that's all for now! I don't expect you to know them all, but there is probably somebody more knowledgeable than me somewhere!

[DrFrag]

Originally posted by Astro forever@Jul 1 2005, 06:02 PM
Some I've yet to find out: the piece in the middle of The Man-Made Solar Sphere, the one at the end of The Girl from Alsoar, at the beginning of The Red Cat (I know St-Saëns' Carnival of the Animals is used throughout the episode, but I don't know about this piece), the Waltz in the Robot Stuntman, the Waltz during the cards dance in Uran's Quest, the piece at the beginning of the Snow Leopard... phew, that's all for now! I don't expect you to know them all, but there is probably somebody more knowledgeable than me somewhere!

I had to ask my mum for help. The music from The Robot Stuntman and The Snow Leopard are probably Vienese Waltzes by Strauss. The card music from Uran's Quest is Tritsch Tratsch Polka by Strauss (can't find a midi file to confirm this).
What's the music at the start of The Red Cat? Do you mean where the episode title comes up and it makes a weird screeching sound?

I'll add whatever trivia I can about the episodes. At the moment I've just pasted in old material that I typed years ago. I need to watch them all side by side with the uncut Japanese versions to pick up the edited scenes, and I'll write in anything interesting as I go.

[Astro Forever]

Originally posted by DrFrag+Jul 1 2005, 07:17 AM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (DrFrag @ Jul 1 2005, 07:17 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>I had to ask my mum for help. The music from The Robot Stuntman and The Snow Leopard are probably Vienese Waltzes by Strauss. The card music from Uran's Quest is Tritsch Tratsch Polka by Strauss (can't find a midi file to confirm this).
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Oooops I think I got confused when I wrote the message. Actually there is one piece as Alvin and Astro discovers the kids and another when the animals get wild.

Thanks for the tips BTW, I'll check that!

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You are really ambitious! It will be very interesting. I'll read for sure!

[jeffbert]

In the 80s Pluto eps, I noticed your mixing J names with E names for your cast of characters.

[DrFrag]

Originally posted by jeffbert@Jul 2 2005, 05:23 AM
In the 80s Pluto eps, I noticed your mixing J names with E names for your cast of characters.

I got them from the US 80s anime. Which ones are mixed?