''MovieCode'' (full title ''Source Code in TV and Films'') is a

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revealing the meanings of computer program

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depicted in film, established in January 2014. It runs via microblogging site

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, with its owner accepting examples submitted by readers. Its contents include examples of code and their origins and/or meanings.

History

The site was launched on 2014 via

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service

. It was conceived by programmer and writer

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to address questions around what the

seen in films actually does. Graham-Cumming was inspired to create the blog by Neill Blomkamp's 2013 film '' Elysium'', which uses an extract from an

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manual. He posted a comparison image related to the film on

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, which prompted more than 500 retweets. He then created the blog. The site's full title of Source Code in TV and Films is sometimes shortened to MovieCode, that being the Tumblr

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Features

The site's intention is to connect

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s to specific extracts of original code. The author accepts examples submitted by readers for future publication.

Reception

The site was reported by the

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as having received more than 10,000 hits 10 days after its launch. The German edition of

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was noted for its web site's

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code being used in Duane Clark's 2011 TV series ''

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'', while it was noted elsewhere that movie code is frequently taken from

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s, including

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and a Canadian bank. It was noted that instead of using "random code" (which is often the case) sometimes more appropriate code is used. Some cited examples are James Cameron's 1984 film ''

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'' (using assembly language for the 1975

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microprocessor), Eric Kripke's 2012 TV series ''

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'' (using code from Jordan Mechner's 1989 video game ''

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'') and David Fincher's 2011 film ''

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'' (using

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