Quo Fuit places 4 dated presences for Billy Wilder across 4 places, from 1906 to 1939.
Each one keeps the sentence it was taken from and a link to its source.
Billy Wilder (born Samuel Wilder; June 22, 1906 – March 27, 2002) was an Austrian and American film director and screenwriter.Wikipedia, full article · CC BY-SA
Every dot is a place Billy Wilder is documented in, on a dated record. The interactive globe carries the full detail.
Where Billy Wilder was documented, and when
22 June 1906exact date
Sucha Beskidzkaattested“Samuel Wilder () was born on June 22, 1906, into a Polish-Jewish family in Sucha, a small town then in the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.”source: Wikipedia: Billy Wilder
22 June 1906exact date
Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeriaattested“Samuel Wilder () was born on June 22, 1906, into a Polish-Jewish family in Sucha, a small town then in the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.”source: Wikipedia: Billy Wilder
1926year
Viennaattested“In 1926, jazz band leader Paul Whiteman was on tour in Vienna, where he was interviewed by Wilder.”source: Wikipedia: Billy Wilder
1939year
Mexicoattested“He became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1939, having spent time in Mexico waiting for the government after his six-month card expired in 1934, an episode reflected in his 1941 Hold Back the Dawn.”source: Wikipedia: Billy Wilder
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In each of these, a source puts Billy Wilder and the place in the same dated sentence without stating
that Billy Wilder was there. They are kept apart from the timeline above for exactly that reason:
a mention is not a presence, and Quo Fuit does not quietly promote one into the other.
1931year
Berlinmentioned“He wrote the screenplay for the 1931 film adaptation of a novel by Erich Kästner, Emil and the Detectives, also screenplays for the comedy The Man in Search of His Murderer (1931), the operetta Her Grace Commands (1931), and the comedy A…”source: Wikipedia: Billy Wilder
1931year
Potsdammentioned“He wrote the screenplay for the 1931 film adaptation of a novel by Erich Kästner, Emil and the Detectives, also screenplays for the comedy The Man in Search of His Murderer (1931), the operetta Her Grace Commands (1931), and the comedy A…”source: Wikipedia: Billy Wilder
1931year
Babelsberg Studiosmentioned“He wrote the screenplay for the 1931 film adaptation of a novel by Erich Kästner, Emil and the Detectives, also screenplays for the comedy The Man in Search of His Murderer (1931), the operetta Her Grace Commands (1931), and the comedy A…”source: Wikipedia: Billy Wilder
1934year
Parismentioned“After Adolf Hitler's rise to power, Wilder went to Paris, where he made his directorial debut film Mauvaise Graine (1934).”source: Wikipedia: Billy Wilder
1934year
Hollywoodmentioned“After arriving in Hollywood in 1934, Wilder continued working as a screenwriter.”source: Wikipedia: Billy Wilder
Two people documented in the same place in the same year is a correlation, not a meeting.
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back to it. Nothing is inferred, and a gap in the record is not evidence that someone was elsewhere.
A tag says how the fact is carried by its source: documented a structured,
explicitly dated record, attested a sentence that states the person was there,
mentioned a sentence that ties the person to the place without stating presence.
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