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LeboviciAB84
In response to LeboviciAB84's post, the question one needs to ask about this site is is it our purpose to list any car that ever passed in front of a camera lens in the field of commercial visual entertainment (films, television, videos, DVDs), no matter how minor it's appearance is, or to focus an cars that are used in films in an interesting way? I think truth is the site was originally meant for the latter, to look at cars that are used in an entertaining, interesting way in films, but it's becoming more and more comprehensive, now we listed almost any kind of free-roaming land vehicle (ie. not trains) that a person can use to travel in.
"you don't know what uses the database could be put to in future."
Well, what kind of purpose are you thinking of? I don't think this is meant to be a deeply academic site (although we do discuss and provide a lot of detailed automotive information) that's trying to examine the sociological influence of cars or trying to examine modern history by looking at cars, more of an entertaining movie vehicle encyclopedia for those who have a passion for cars. Am I right?
"you don't know what uses the database could be put to in future."
Well, what kind of purpose are you thinking of? I don't think this is meant to be a deeply academic site (although we do discuss and provide a lot of detailed automotive information) that's trying to examine the sociological influence of cars or trying to examine modern history by looking at cars, more of an entertaining movie vehicle encyclopedia for those who have a passion for cars. Am I right?
Well, the database can be used as light entertainment, just as an almanac or atlas can. But I certainly think it should be as rigorous as possible, otherwise it loses any claim to its sole purpose, which is as a list of onscreen vehicles that aspires towards being exhaustive. If we know that only, say, ninety per cent of cars will be accepted, then the database could lose a lot of its credibility. Besides, there is a lot of fun reading involved discussions about the identity of certain cars.
Of course the database itself isn't academic: it's a neutral resource that has no tone or style. Those arise from the different uses that the administrators are prepared to put it to: whether trivial, sociological or even just arising from a curious story in the film's production. And with a list of (theoretically) every onscreen vehicle of all time, surely there are hundreds of interesting ways to collate it, study it, pick out trends and oddities?