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Internet Movie Cars Database

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Wow, this is great (and very comprehensive). I remember being really intrigued years ago when I stumbled on "The Cars of Tintin" [1] (one of my favourite comics as a kid). The vehicles in Tintin were beautifully drawn and the attention to detail was exquisite.

Someone also did a "Planes of Tintin" [2].

I wonder if anyone has done "Internet movie plane database"? If so, I hope someone can post a good link as an appendix to the OP...

[1] - http://dardel.info/tintin/indexE.html

[2] - http://angeldustandbones.blogspot.com.au/2014/02/a-guide-to-...

http://www.impdb.org/index.php?title=The_Internet_Movie_Plan...

I used to contribute to the 'mystery planes identification parade', I really should make time again to do so.

I love that site. I first found it when I googled a license plate from an IT Crowd episode, which led me to another movie (love and other disasters) where the exact same car was used:

https://imgur.com/a/So1m6

So cool. :)

My Dad loves to point out in period films when cars came out after the film was set. He'll love this and I guess I can one-up him now.

There sure are a lot on a show called "Top Gear".

Nitpick: Some probably should be merged, like these Honda bikes:

    CBR 1100 XX Super Blackbird (11)
    CBR 1100 XX Superblackbird (1)

Is this done via computer vision or manually ? Either way it's impressive.

I would like to know too. It always intrigues me how sites like this that have a seemingly unique database actually build the database.

And if it is computer vision, how did they get the footage?

It is all done by hand I bet. Started in 2004

Are the DMV records public in many states? It seems like you could feed a corpus of video into a license plate scanning algorithm and lookup make/model from DMV records, if available. Presumably, that would be more accurate than trying to recognize the vehicle from appearance (either manually or using machine learning).

Movies are often shot on private lots. There is no requirement that a vehicle actually be registered and be using a real valid license plate unless it is driven on public roads. (at least in the US)

I would be curious if that database is public, though.

It's all manually done!

Cool. One of our cars is in the database, despite having just been a background car.

our cars?

One of the cars my family owns. (We've had a few old cars over the years appear in TV series or background of movie shots; never managed to land a "hero car" role for any of them.) Only one made the database, which was surprising to me that it made it as it was a background shot, not at all critical to the movie.

http://www.imcdb.org/vehicle_426298-De-Lorean-T-40.html made my day

Couldn't find the SV9 Competizione mostly I think because search ignores terms less than 4 characters.

Friend of mine worked on it and it was featured briefly in True Blood - http://thethrottle.com/2010/08/06/what-does-true-bloods-lafa...

Will try to add it if it really doesn't exist.

This is cool as can be, especially the "custom cars" section. There are a few in there I worked on but I helped build most of this one when I was around 16 years old...

http://www.imcdb.org/vehicles.php?make=Custom+made&model=Eve...

Alright, alright, alright

http://www.imcdb.org/movie.php?id=106677

The burger stand from the film is still running in Austin:

https://www.google.com/maps/@30.3512032,-97.7339721,3a,39.5y...

Not sure if you'll see a Plymouth RoadRunner Superbird there though...

Beautiful!

http://www.imcdb.org/vehicle_43840-Rover-Mini-Chic-ADO20-199...

For images like this one, make a submit/suggest/correct button, without having to register. I don't see the BMW 7 and Peugeot 406 mentioned.

The big car in the center is a BMW and behind, a bit left is the Peugeot

I think he meant that the two cars are not mentioned (not that he/she does not see them).

The BMW is mentioned in another frame for that movie: http://www.imcdb.org/movie_455078-L-anniversaire.html

I wonder how long the Crown Vic will be out of production before it stops being the most popular make/model.

Thank you so much! I finally found the car from Wolf of Wallstreet that I'll buy.

Which one?

Presumably the Countach 20th Anniversary.

It was a 25th anniversary edition. And I say was because they actually wrecked the real car for the movie (instead of using a replica). Such a shame...

Oops, 25th of course. And I hadn’t realised it was a real one :( Hopefully they trashed a non-runner at least.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVp5a38WT_0

This is why the internet exists. This is awesome.

Oh this: http://www.imcdb.org/vehicle_243751-Austin-FX4-1968.html

Surprised to see that of all motorcycles only HD Electra Glide made it to the top 250 vehicles.

Is this actually done by hand or is it Machine Learning behind it?

Manual, similar to IMDB, Wikipedia, etc; never underestimate the power of crowdsourcing.

Back to the Future is not listed for the DeLorean.

Yes it is:

http://www.imcdb.org/movie_88763-Back-to-the-Future.html

http://www.imcdb.org/vehicles.php?resultsStyle=asImages&sort...

This is brilliant!

i'd like something like that for watches.

As it turns out... http://watchesinmovies.info/ And if you want to see what the celebs choose in real life and compare to what they chose in the move, sometimes http://www.watch-id.com/ has the info.

Yes, the movie Cars is in the database :)

So where do i find the top 250 list?

Here's the stats page:

http://www.imcdb.org/stats.php?type=makes&subject=2&limit=25

Very, very cool!

Why

"Because it's there"

Huh. I like it.

Also don't forget about the Internet Movie Firearms database

http://www.imfdb.org/wiki/Main_Page

Crazy to see that there are custom made guns in movies, like this one:

http://www.imfdb.org/wiki/Bourne_Supremacy,_The#Keppeler_.26...

I'm wondering where all these props end up after movie is done. There is so many things usually get created from costumes to props even in average movie which usually get disappear. Wouldn't it be good startup that works with producers to collect all these material and puts in some online shop? It doesn't have to be for fans for specific movie. For example, if I wanted shoes, I can just look up that website to see if anything used in movie is available in my size. It reduces burden of finding cool stuff on customer part.

They reuse a lot of them. A lot of props come from prop shops that lend them out.

Here's an example http://i.imgur.com/mItm9Og.png

One of my favorite examples of this is the magnetic boots in Face Off (1997) and the boots the Goombas wear in Super Mario Bros. (1993)

Or that one newspaper¹ — not the exact same physical item obviously.

1: http://www.businessinsider.com/ed-oneill-has-been-reading-th...

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