Criterion
Criterion noun - Something set up as an example against which others of the same type are compared.
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Each film has a spine number, ostensibly to denote the order in which Criterion released it to the format.
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The Criterion Collection numbers its hundreds of famed films in the order that they enter the collection and decided to have fun with this trope when they reached 666 in 2013 — they assigned it to The Devil's Backbone!
Source: Number of the Beast
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