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I used to be able to add dates for films made in the 19th century. Was doing that back in mid December 2024. Now it no longer works. The earliest release date the system lets you add is 1st January 1900. Can this be fixed please? There's a large body of work still to be added and a lot of works are already listed by cinema pioneers from 1894-1899. Right now, no new listings can be added with the correct date on them. The dates for listings already logged on the database look fine and remain intact, it is just since this month you can't add new films with a date on that is before 1900. The system just says there is an error and thinks that the date field is blank if you do that. I've tried on two different computers now so it is a website issue. Thanks!

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Hi, this is still an ongoing problem and it has been over 4 months now.
Any hope at all of getting this sorted out? Others are noticing this too now, comments are being made about this problem by people at British Film Institute silent film screenings.

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