MovieCode (full title Source Code in TV and Films) is a website revealing the meanings of computer program source code depicted in film, established in January 2014.
It runs via microblogging site Tumblr, with its owner accepting examples submitted by readers. Its contents include examples of code and their origins and/or meanings.
Graham-Cumming was inspired to create the blog by Neill Blomkamp's 2013 film
Elysium, which uses an extract from an Intel manual.[6][9][10] He posted a comparison image related to the film on Twitter, which prompted more than 500 retweets. He then created the blog.[11] The site's full title of Source Code in TV and Films[3][7] is sometimes shortened to MovieCode,[12][13] that being the Tumblr subdomain.
A companion website, Behind The Screens, covers some of the entries on MovieCode in great detail in the form of short videos.
The site's intention is to connect screenshots to specific extracts of original code.[6] The author accepts examples submitted by readers for future publication.[1][2]
Reception
The site was reported by the BBC as having received more than 10,000 hits 10 days after its launch.[3]
The German edition of Engadget was noted for its web site's HTML code being used in Duane Clark's 2011 TV series XIII,[4][12] while it was noted elsewhere that movie code is frequently taken from web sites, including Wikipedia[5][14] and a Canadian bank.[10][14]
