Kevin Bacon Number

[jack]

I googled to find the website that calculates kevin bacon numbers from IMBD. I googled for "kevin bacon number". Above the top hits, Google gave the answer "Kevin Smith's Bacon Number is 2". Yes, full marks for initiative, but, you know, minus several million for context awareness.

But what I wanted to know was, what counts as film for kevin bacon counting? A feature film? Anything released at a cinema? Anything released at a film festival? Anything on IMDB?

Several years ago, a friend of the family, an aspiring film-maker, made a short documentary film about my brother-in-law. I think it showed at some festival and mostly disappeared after that. But we all featured in it, as did the director in a voice-over (I think?) And at some point since, it appeared on IMDB.

If that counts, she has a bacon number of 3, giving my BiL and I a bacon number of 4, fulfilling a minor life ambition. My competitive brain latches onto anything quantifiable as something to achieve :)

But I really, really want to contribute to a scientific paper at some point in my life :)

Comments

[ptc24]

I think things go as far as YouTube adverts. Maybe only as a joke, but there was this very silly advert featuring Jamie Oliver and Kevin Bacon, and while they were making bacon sandwiches, Jamie said "I hear you're connected to everyone. Do me!", and Kevin said, "well, we're in this together, so 1".

If it's good enough for Kevin Bacon it's good enough for me.

I've got no Bacon number, I do have an Erdos number, except I've forgotten it. There was a thing on the web that tracked you down and it turned out to be surprisingly low.

Apparently there's such a thing as the Erdős–Bacon–Sabbath number: http://erdosbaconsabbath.com/