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Did you know... that Christopher Nolan (pictured) wrote and directed a no-budget film titled Doodlebug as a student at University College London?

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What do you guy's think? I'm open to help. This is my first page. -User:Justicefilms

It's off to a good start, I'd add more inline citations CTJF83 23:14, 1 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Maybe you can help. I found a picture on google images that meets their fair use policy, but I have NO idea how to upload it. It's a screenshot though and is used for promotion.- User:Justicefilms

I gladly can, please link it. CTJF83 00:09, 2 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

http://www.fusedfilm.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/Doodlebug.jpg - User:Justicefilms

I'm sorry. User:Justicefilms will no longer be active as the username has been indefinitely blocked due to associating myself with an organization, even though I am the only member of said organization.
In any case, that's still the right link.
- User:Lanejlubell

The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by SL93 (talk) 05:02, 13 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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... that Christopher Nolan shot a no-budget short film titled Doodlebug as a student at UCL? Source: "It's always fascinating watching major directors' earliest work, and Doodlebug is no different, a no budget, 3-minute film Christopher Nolan wrote, directed, shot and edited in 1997 while he was studying English Literature at UCL in London." [1]

Reviewed: John Talbot White

5x expanded by MikeOwen (talk). Self-nominated at 12:32, 23 July 2019 (UTC).[reply]

The article was expanded 5x on time, a QPQ has been provided, the hook fact is interesting and cited inline, and no close paraphrasing was found. My only concern is that the infobox says "The exact budget is unknown", but this does not appear in the article text, which instead says that the budget was "negligible". This will be good to go once the discrepancy is addressed. Narutolovehinata5 ^tccsdnew 11:16, 26 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Narutolovehinata5: I removed the budget in the Infobox since I don't know where it came from. Hope it's okay now. mike•owen ^discuss 12:29, 26 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Should be good to go then. Narutolovehinata5 ^tccsdnew 09:27, 27 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Original release[edit]

Do we know when this was first publicly and/or commercially shown? It's been confirmed to be a project he completed in 1997, and presumably was presented in his film class. The first reference says that it was classified and distributed in 1999, so the two questions are - was it released sometime in the 1997-1998 period at festivals/on TV, and if not, was it ever actually released in 1999 or was the classification just a formality?