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October 28

N F REGISTRY

Do leaks or Polymarket bets occur with the annual National Film Registry? DMc75771 (talk) 23:11, 28 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@DMc75771 Leaks or bets on what exactly? The National Film Registry is a film archive, not an annual event. Shantavira|^{feed me} 09:15, 30 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

However, it "adds to the NFR up to 25 "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant films" each year in December . . .".

Conceivably people could bet on which films are going to be inducted in the next tranche. Google's (unreliable) AI Overview advises me that this is illegal, but although "betting on the annual selections for the National Film Registry is not possible through legal sportsbooks, online communities and forums exist where participants make predictions and speculate on potential inductees." How accurate this is I couldn't say, since I have often elicited answers from this search tool that were factually inaccurate, and changing the wording of a question to it can yield wildly differing answers. {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 94.1.208.246 (talk) 21:01, 30 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

When obsessive gamblers get tired of betting on which color paint dries the fastest, they turn to inductees to the NFR. Clarityfiend (talk) 22:56, 30 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Maybe we could take bets on whether the OP will bother responding to the questions here. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 03:23, 31 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

your reply was what I was seeking. DMc75771 (talk) 17:57, 31 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

October 29

2010s maybe even 2020 female vocal song about fire and leaving to grow up?

Hi all, thank you for all your effort and work on this reference desk. I remember a 2012ish-2020 music video with a brunette white female singer early 20s in a restaurant kitchen singing about leaving and escaping her current life and trying her dreams etc. I am almost certain it had a chorus about fire and dreams but no it is not Alicia Keyes This Girl is on Fire and not Anna Kendrick Cups with her in a restaurant kitchen. Singer could be part Latina but not Demi Lovato. I can vividly remember this video but all my google searches have just turned up those I mentioned. Thank you in advance for any and all suggestions! 2600:1700:6742:3C00:C803:886C:C1A1:80F6 (talk) 05:05, 29 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

“Fire” by Sara Bareilles? 140.180.240.246 (talk) 14:51, 30 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

October 31

Where to get Stereo (2014 film) in French?

It was broadcasted in French on Arte, and dvd are sold, but I m unsure if they contain the French language. 82.67.45.113 (talk) 15:04, 31 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Do you want to watch it dubbed into French, or with French subtitles? Either way, I think you may be out of luck. Amazon listings for the DVD/blu-ray don't mention French, so I suspect there is no option for French dub or subtitles. It's also available for streaming on the German Amazon, but again no subtitles are available. --Viennese Waltz 08:57, 3 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

November 3

Earliest depiction on incest

What is the earliest depiction on incest in cinema/films? I was able to find Peyton Place by Mark Robson from 1957. 87.1.58.145 (talk) 05:47, 3 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I can push it back to 1929 for (surprise!) Incest (man and stepdaughter). Now searching for something earlier, maybe about Noah? Clarityfiend (talk) 10:55, 3 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The 1910 Italian-language film Edipo re, an adaptation of Sophocles' tragedy Oedipus Rex, deals with the incestuous relation between Oedipus and his mother Jocasta. ‑‑Lambiam 12:15, 3 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Television questions

Two questions related to television:

Does any country in Europe have any equivalent of The Weather Channel or The Weather Network? Is TV and website weather presented differently in US than in Europe? Is TV weather in Europe ever presented like this? And I have never seen maps like this in any European country's weather service website.
Do television channels in US have numbered slots where they are in all TVs? In Finland, Yle TV1 is always at slot 1, Yle TV2 always at slot 2, MTV3 always at slot 3 and Nelonen always at slot 4 (that's just why these four channels have the names they have). Are there any channels named after numbers in US? --40bus (talk) 18:50, 3 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Item 2, big-city stations are often known by their long-standing channel numbers, such as WGN-TV, long-known as "Chicago's Very Own Channel 9." That was over-the-air on the VHF dial, vs. where they might turn up on cable TV, which could be anywhere. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 22:05, 3 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Item 2. Short answer, no. Longer answer follows. The 3 historical broadcast networks (ABC, CBS, and NBC) would have affiliates in various cities. These affiliates were owned by private individuals or small companies (except for a very few stations in the largest cities that the networks would own outright). Affiliate stations would be given broadcast frequencies (and, thus, channels) by the FCC with no regard for any affiliation they might have then or might gain in the future. This meant that the CBS station in one city would be a completely different channel number from the CBS station in another city. For example, growing up in Charlotte, NC, my local CBS station was channel 3. However, in Raleigh, NC, CBS is channel 17. PBS and the later broadcast networks (Fox, WB, UPN - the latter two later merging into the CW) basically followed this same model. These stations might be referred to by number, but this would only be meaningful in their own broadcast area. The advent of cable television saw different providers using different set ups. The local broadcast stations might be given cable channels that matched their broadcast channels. Or they might not. Often they would be grouped together in the single digit channels. The NBC station in Charlotte (channel 36) was given channel 6 in the local cable set up. As for cable only channels, they might be given different numbers by every cable provider. I no longer have a television so I am not entirely sure how this relates to the current set up, but I think it is still quite similar. --User:Khajidha (talk) (contributions) 12:43, 5 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Item 1: I've never heard of dedicated weather channels on European TV, but hard to prove a negative. Weather forecasts are normally included in short blocks in news programmes. I expect European television is more fragmented than US television. Every country has its own channels and one can also receive television from neighbouring countries (also by cable; there're agreements to offer each other's channels). That gives fewer viewers per channel and (in analogue days) scarce frequency space. Hard to fill a weather channel economically.

Warning maps for dangerous weather are pretty common. The exact lay-out varies of course, but the idea is the same in EU and US. There's even a joint website for weather warnings all over Europe. PiusImpavidus (talk) 17:14, 5 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Item 2: Maybe some nuances for the situation in Europe. I've actually got an old television from the late 1970s. It's older than I am and since the switch to digital television not very useful. It has an on/off button, sliders for sound volume, brightness and saturation and 8 buttons for channel selection. There's a removable side panel, behind which one can find 8 tuner circuits. Push button 1 and it will show the channel on the frequency selected by tuner 1, etc. More modern televisions (say, 1990s) can automatically scan the frequency band and detect channels, but it's still up to the user to label and sort them. Meaning, there's no reason why any particular channel would be on the same number on two different televisions. Most people would assign the channels they watch most often to the numbers below 10. There were some conventions, of course. It would be a safe bet to assume that the first channel of national public television, branded "1", would be on 1 and the second channel of national public television on 2, but that's about it. The first channel of the national television of the neighbouring country wouldn't be on 1. For a while we had in the Netherlands two competing channels both trying to claim number 5 (both branded with "5" in their name), hoping the other claimant would be put on 8, as 6 and 7 were already taken. I think I had them on 12 and 13.

When we entered the digital age, power moved from the user to the provider. Providers assign channel numbers, commercial TV stations pay them to get a low number. I never watch channel 4 or 5 or 6 or 7. I do watch channel 29, which is branded as "one", as it's the first public channel of the neighbouring country (Belgium, or more exactly Flanders). Different providers offer different channels or the same channels under different numbers. That national public television gets the lowest numbers is still a safe bet though. It may even be mandated by law. PiusImpavidus (talk) 19:12, 5 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

November 4

Basketball stats

Are running tallys of scored points on current BB players added to their profile page. Like HRs on baseball players profile pages. Not a leader list. DMc75771 (talk) 21:09, 4 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

A casual look suggests that they do not post running totals during a given season. I suspect that question has been debated a few times. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 22:05, 4 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

November 5

Lbe scar

https://fox4kc.com/business/press-releases/ein-presswire/792386254/emerging-ohio-artist-lbe-scar-releases-debut-single-abundance-now-available-on-all-major-platforms/

https://hustleinformer.com/lbe-scar-charts-new-path-with-first-single-release/ ~2025-31465-44 (talk) 17:23, 5 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Some write ~2025-31465-44 (talk) 17:25, 5 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Who is this model (Susan Holmes)?

Who is this model? I assume she is Susan Holmes, but I am not sure. --KnightMove (talk) 18:51, 5 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Models featuring on the packaging of commercial products are rarely famous. ‑‑Lambiam 11:31, 7 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I don't exactly get the point of this answer (this is an ad poster), anyway meanwhile I know that she is a lesser-famous model named Lushano Kuhn. --KnightMove (talk)

November 6

Who is lbe scar

Who is lbe scar ? Skyler Lewis ? ~2025-31634-35 (talk) 03:38, 6 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

What are you talking about? ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 04:08, 6 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Lbe Scar is a hip-hop artist. This instagram account, which is linked to from the lbescar Facebook account does suggest they might be Skyler Lewis, although I'm not seeing relevant Google hits for that name (there are lots of hits for Skylar Lewis, who does not appear to be the same person).-Gadfium (talk) 04:32, 6 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I found this press release: "Emerging Ohio Artist Lbe Scar Releases Debut Single 'Abundance,' Now Available on All Major Platforms".^[1] ‑‑Lambiam 11:08, 7 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Also,^[2]

Skyler Lewis
lbescar
Call Me Scar
28 Year Old ,
Emerging Artist Taurus ♉️ #abundance

‑‑Lambiam 11:12, 7 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

November 8

The Combined Services cricket team

"The players listed in this category have represented the Combined Services cricket team in first-class cricket", says the headnote of our Category:Combined Services cricketers. Does someone who played for the Combined Services Mediterranean team in the early 1950s qualify, or is that something quite different? Would he have been, in other words, a first class cricketer? Cricket is a closed book to me. --Antiquary (talk) 15:29, 8 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I think not. The full Combined Services cricket team was rated First Class up until 1964, but the Combined Services Mediterranean team would be only one of several such regional teams which I doubt were themselves ever considered First Class. However, some of their players likely also played for the Combined Services proper and would therefore qualify. {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} ~2025-31359-08 (talk) 16:54, 8 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The obituaries I'm drawing on only mention the Mediterranean team though, and doubtless they'd have bigged him up further if they could, so I think I can rule him out as a first-class player. Thanks, that was useful. --Antiquary (talk) 17:51, 8 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

When did lbe scar release his new albums ? When is his birthday ? How long has he been doing music ? What is lbe scar known for ? How many releases does lbe scar have ?

When did lbe scar release his new albums ? When is his birthday ? How long has he been doing music ? What is he known for ? How many releases does he have ? Where is his wiki page at ? ~2025-31465-44 (talk) 18:14, 8 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

He's apparently some American rapper, he's so non-famous you could probably just DM him on social media and ask him himself. Nanonic (talk) 20:37, 8 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

What we could find is found above at the threads § Lbe scar and § Who is lbe scar. ‑‑Lambiam 07:45, 9 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

November 9

Skating music

At the Grand Prix of Figure Skating there is this bouncy tune they play in a loop at the Victory Ceremonies. In this clip, it starts at about the 4:30 mark:[3] I'm just curious if anyone has a clue what it is. It sounds like it might be some K-pop kind of thing. It's possible it was written specifically for this purpose. Any ideas? ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 04:28, 9 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thunder (Gabry Ponte, Lumix and Prezioso song). Nanonic (talk) 14:40, 9 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

That's it! [4] Thank you! ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 23:13, 9 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Resolved

November 11