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There's also the Internet Movie Cars Database which I'm a huge fan of: https://www.imcdb.org/

edit: especially for a show like Archer where they feature a ton of very obscure cars... https://www.imcdb.org/movie_1486217-Archer.html

Or if you’re into aviation: https://www.impdb.org/

Great resource, but I wish it'd let you filter by movie/song and movie rating.

Glad to see that IMDB hasn't tried to hit every IM*DB with a Trademark claim?

They might be worried a court will find that 'Internet Movie Database' is a generic name, which would lead to losing their trademark.

The car database seems to have some egregious accuracy problems:

https://www.imcdb.org/vehicle_579212-Volkswagen-Rabbit-Typ-1...

There's a VW Rabbit crossing the street in the background.

Yup, there's also the mark that it's a ‘background vehicle’ under the image. The site's UI could use some work, though—I'm saying that as an occasional user.

Haha, da wabbit totawwy did not wegister on my bwain.

Some more specialized movie databases:

the defunct Internet Movie Radio Database: https://web.archive.org/web/20181201121627/https://www.imrdb...

https://www.moviemistakes.com/

and the Bechdel Test Movie List: https://bechdeltest.com/

Now this is a rabbit hole! There are far more of these than I'd thought, ranging in structure from blog-like to database-like, with some updated by the host and some allowing user contributions (with some of the latter using wiki software). Many also include television, games, comics, or other media; and databases for those forms of media in particular also exist. More mundane subjects, like locations and songs used, are each covered by several sites. To keep the scope narrow, here are some more interesting ones that include films:

Camera equipment used: https://shotonwhat.com/

Instances of censorship: https://www.movie-censorship.com/ and in Australia in particular: https://refused-classification.com/default.html

Keeping with the theme of transportation from the other comments:

- The Boat Database is small and Fandom-hosted: https://imbd.fandom.com/wiki/Category:Movies

- There's one for trains, but only for the UK: http://railwaymoviedatabase.com/

Ultimately, it seems that we are devoid of an Internet Internet Database Database. Wikipedia comes close with some of its lists and categories, but only includes those it considers notable. Some of the databases do link to each other; e.g., the Cars Database has a directory page featuring smaller databases such as those for busses; LEGO and similar brick systems; and Microsoft and Nokia: https://www.imcdb.org/links.php

We really need an "internet movie meta- attribute database" with a way to represent all this stuff. Cuz as far as I know, nobody's set up a whole website for the Internet Movie Household Appliance Database, it's not THAT big an interest.

But if I could just log onto the IMMADB and open the Household Appliance tab, it'd be cool to find out what that cool-looking vacuum cleaner was...

Isn’t that just a subset of IMPPDB? The Internet Movie Product Placement Database, with company.type=‘hoover’ enabled? Which would be very convenient to know who paid what for advertising.

Taking this a step further, we could have an everything (including movies) meta-attribute database that allows you to query that one radio interview where the actor co-starring Kevin Bacon in 3 movies talked about a brand of lawn mover that they really liked. (It had the color blue in its logo.)

There's also Starring the Computer ( http://www.starringthecomputer.com/ ): A list dedicated to naming the computers used in movies and TV shows, including perennial favorites like Hackers and Jurassic Park.

Ah, this is so cool! I was wondering about the Toyota SUV that Bond drives in No Time To Die. Found it easily with this site!

https://www.imcdb.org/vehicle_1326115-Toyota-Land-Cruiser-J9...

These days you can also feed an image of a car to Google's image search, or to Yandex image search—the latter is more head-on about recognizing stuff in general, while Google still tends to suggest handwavy and useless descriptions like ‘sports utility vehicle’.

OK, I didn't realize how much detail was put into guns in Ghost in the Shell SAC: http://www.imfdb.org/wiki/Ghost_in_the_Shell_Stand_Alone_Com...

I didn't even feel like it had much of a focus on gun fights, but apparently it's like a detailed firearms museum. They also have airsoft product placements... I'm not that surprised, some people probably bought the featured airsoft guns purely for display.

The "POKER FACE" episode from 2nd GIG is one that focuses quite a bit on guns, though not exclusively.

Masamune Shiro is somewhat of a gun nerd, it turns out.

What was the SAAAIIITTOOOOO HAND OVER THAT WEAPON! ?

Well, that was probably some fantastical hand held railgun.

I'm impressed how much detail they put in the animation and how much work they put into documenting this too.

Wow, Bruce Willis in Die Hard and Mel Gibson in Lethal Weapon used the exact same gun, "The live-firing handgun that was used in both films has since been 'retired' to a glass museum case."

http://www.imfdb.org/wiki/Lethal_Weapon_(1987)

I love this site! I often use it to find the cool gun a main character is using and get one for myself.

Your poor bank account

Eh, think of it as diversification.

(until you start buying ammo anyway)

Depending on the political climate, buying and sitting on large amounts of ammo for the next price surge could be a good investment.

Unless you live somewhere that restricts your ability to resell it

Thankfully that legislative idiocy seems constrained to specific states.

What the DOJ doesn't know can't hurt it.

For the record, this is what get people on illegal (whole debate on the legality of the NFA aside) machine guns and silencers. Yes, your state may have a prohibition which is a criminal action, but the feds want you for tax evasion for not paying the $200.

Iirc, rapper Ti went to jail for tax evasion on his illegal guns. Another side topic how he spent 1 year in jail while the statute says it’s a 10 year crime. If you are going to break the law, be rich first.

>and sitting on

This is where I struggle.

Someone needs to do an Indiana Jones scene with a box of Gold Dots instead of the golden idol.

Guns depreciate very slowly, and if high-quality or unusual, they often appreciate. Not really a net worth hit.

I think when I sold my 1911 it was more expensive than when I bought it, but even though I didn't use it much I had spent like at least 5 or 6 guns just on ammo and I still sucked with the thing.

1911s are wonderful, but definitely not for everyone. Polarizing grip angle.

I love it until it stovepipes again.

As a Beretta lover, I felt that in my soul. John Moses Browning, we're sorry for ignoring the hi-power.

FYI, the new Springfield Hi-Power is very cool.

There's also a printable frame for it. Really nice to see one of the coolest old guns get revived.

> we're sorry for ignoring the hi-power.

Gun Jesus knows, and he forgives you.

I don't think it even needs to be high-quality or unusual, these days. A Mosin bolt-action rifle is not exactly rare, with 37 million made in total. It's also, with few exceptions (such as Finnish marksman variants) not exactly the finest gun in terms of build. 15 years ago, you could get one for $70. 5 years ago, they were going for $300 or so. These days, $600 would be a good find.

Phased plasma rifle in the 40 watt range.

Hey, just what you see pal.

I'm only slightly ashamed to admit I bought a modern Mauser replica action to build a clone of the k98 used by Riza in Fullmetal Alchemist.

Dude, that rocks! The gun-building community is going crazy these days. There's some very cool sci-fi guns being printed: https://twitter.com/p80ralph/status/1473091500225572866/phot...

Be very careful with those. It's *very* easy to end up on the wrong side of the ATF. I.e. on that one you posted, he's calling it a pistol, but it appears to have a stock to me.

I believe that makes it a rifle in ATF terms. Rifles have to have a 16" barrel, or they're short-barreled rifles that require a whole bunch of extra paperwork and some taxes. The class is called NFA Items, and includes fully automatic weapons. I.e. making that thing is the same as home-manufacturing a machine gun to the law.

I'm going to hope for his sake that he's got the appropriate FFL licenses to allow him to make such things. It seems like they're really into the space, so it wouldn't surprise me. I don't think those licenses are crazy hard to get, but I could be wrong.

Not the referenced folk, but I have the licenses. They are not extremely difficult to get, but you need to be running a real firearms business, not just for yourself as a hobby or collection. ATF has cracked down on people using the licenses as a cheap way to avoid tax stamps and paperwork.

The back of the "stock" looks pretty highly sloped. I think it's a fin type stabilizer.

You don't need an FFL to make NFA items. You just need to have the tax stamp before you start if you don't have an FFL SOT.

I actually didn't know that, I thought manufacturing was gated behind FFL licenses.

That's good to know, I appreciate the correction!

At least they don't give us grief, even in my anti-gun state, over making a bolt action rifle like K98. I'd love to make a few more modern pieces but ugh.

It's a brace. I'm well aware of the dangers, and anyone who wants to build should learn the rules.

The licenses are a massive pain to get. End the NFA.

You don't need an FFL to manufacture, even NFA, but all that aside...f the ATF! Unelected bureaucrats who write laws are a curse upon us all.

"Braces," like the sig pcb are workarounds to these arbitrary rules and evidence of that fact.

I only recently recognized that a high number of movie posters contain an actor(s) with a gun(s). Studios have obviously done their studies and we humans are obviously drawn to such imagery. I find it genuinely interesting from a psychology perspective.

It would be interesting to process a dataset of movie posters to determine the % containing guns (or other objects of interest).

It's interesting that's true even for movies where the character barely touches a gun. In the movie Layer Cake the main character even states he hates guns and loathes having to use one at one point. Yet most of the poster art features him holding a pistol.

It's also easy shorthand to signal "this is an action movie".

Wow, the level of detail on even not-so-well-known animes like http://www.imfdb.org/wiki/Jormungand is amazing.

despite being less known, Jormungand is one of the go-to animes for firearms/military enthusiasts.

Is there something like this for shoes?

I love this site. It's a great resource to find weird guns in 80's movies.

I love watching military-esque movies (e.g. SEAL Team, SWAT) and this site has for long helped me in identifying the numerous guns I see when watching.

I hope there was an Internet Movie Video Games Database.

Can't take this seriously because it's missing the ubiquitous ZF-1.

https://fifth-element.fandom.com/wiki/Zorg_ZF-1_Pod_Weapon

Why not add it yourself?

It's there?

http://www.imfdb.org/wiki/Fifth_Element,_The#AKS-74U_.28as_t...

Strange, my many searches didn't find it. I stand corrected.

On the other hand, I fully support the exclusion of the weirding module[0] from David Lynch's Dune.

[0] - https://dune.fandom.com/wiki/Weirding_Module

Well it doesn't have Dune at all, AFAICT. 28k pages vs 595k movies on IMDB, it's going to miss some. And they seem to have quite restrictive policies on who can edit, what counts as a gun, etc.

... These sardaukars are still salty after the freemen defeated them using weirding modules.

TIL: "Each function of the ZF-1 demonstrated by Zorg was a separate prop which only had that one function".

This is entirely obvious after thinking a bit, but still great example of movie editing for fooling audience.

Does it only have released movies? I was trying to find Alec Baldwin's infamous gun from Rust.

F.LLI Pietta Long Colt 45 Revolver

It’s a 1960s replica of an 1880 Colt SAA (the Peacemaker).

Aside from what Baldwin is ridiculously claiming, that the gun went off without him pulling the trigger, Pietta built these in the 1960s with trigger bars. You very much can not get that gun to fire without pressing the trigger. So unless the gun was modified or somehow broken, he had to pull the trigger.

FWIW, I didn’t blame actor Alec Baldwin until he started lying about the incident, but still blame Producer Alec Baldwin who is ultimately responsible.

I heard somewhere--I think from claims in one of the lawsuits that was filed--that he might've been playing with the hammer. If he had the trigger already depressed, he might've fired it by releasing the hammer without technically pulling the trigger (because it was already pulled). Or at least that's one theory. We will have to see what goes on in court and hear what they say after examining the actual gun.

I'm surprised he didn't offer to settle before this was even filed. From everything I've heard from lawyers discussing this, there's almost no question that he's civilly liable for this.

That is possible. But still very much counts as pulling the trigger.

Holding the trigger and manipulating the hammer is how “fanning” works. The old times cowboy fast hip fire technique.

Yeah, the only question is whether Alec knows that or not. He doesn't seem very clued in about gun safety and has said some very odd things to the press, which is also horribly inadvisable from a legal perspective.

I wonder what he'll do if he ends up having to take the stand in a civil trial.

Does anyone know a dayabase of movie frames so you can make something like Shazam for movies. Ideally obscure movies.

There's trace.moe for anime. I haven't seen one for movies. (I assume trace.moe works on anime movies, though)

Don't forget rust....

Yea, can wait for that one.

Really though Baldwin is claiming the gun went off without him pressing the trigger. Which is a flat out lie he either believes or he is getting ahead of a lawsuit. The gun he used is a replica single action revolver, the replica was made in the 1960s and has a trigger bar. You can bash on that cocked hammer with… a hammer… and it won’t go off. That firing pin can not make contact with the primer until the bar is moved by pressing the trigger.

Historical note, if a Colt SAA (Single Action Army) was to be carried anywhere, it had 5 rounds of the 6 shot chamber filled. It was carried on an empty chamber in case you fell off your horse. I saw a western once where the actor knew while talking about “trouble coming” to silently load a 6th round, good detail.

Side note, there are still countries in Asia and South America that have their police carry with an empty chamber, mostly going back to this OLD advice.

I would say Baldwin should have kept his mouth shut, but his arrogance since the shooting has wiped away any sympathy I had for the Actor. Baldwin the Producer, had always been liable in my eyes.

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