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What do you think? It would indeed be "easy" to include plates of each vehicle to have a kind of database of all plates like there are sites with phone numbers used in movies: http://home.earthlink.net/~mthyen/

It would require few more work when adding cars to the site though

That's an interesting idea. I suppose adding the information, if known, is pretty easy. However, I think it may be a more difficult undertaking than you might think.

I know that many of us pay attention to the license plate, and add a screencap if possible. Often the plate, if valid and not a prop, can be used to help identify the car. This is especially true when using the UK DVLA or the California BAR databases.

I know that in many cases, both in the US and elsewhere, prop plates with invalid number sequences are used. This is because license plate numbers are supposed to be "cleared" if they are to appear on screen. That means the person to whom the plates are registered, must give permission for the number to appear on screen. Invalid numbers can be used without any clearance issues. In addition, fake/prop plates are often used to represent a different time period or location.

I have noticed that cetain numbers have been used on different cars in various film and television productions. I think one of the most well known is the California license plate 2GAT123. I think it would be interesting to see how often a certain plate number is used.

I have also noticed that some movies and shows set in a fictional location will used fictional license plates. "Desperate Housewives" is set in the fictional "Eagle State" and has unique fake/prop plates for the vehicles used.

Finding a way to organize all the information may prove more difficult than you might think.

We can just put the number in a field, no matter if it is real or not, and no matter which country it is, no?

It just seems like a pointless field to have, to be honest. And I can't see how many people would actually pay attention to such a field. In my opinion, it's simply not too important.

At first it is what was said about listing cars seen in movies, you know

I have thought about such a field, too. Sometimes the plate is better visible while watching the film than on the snapshot, esp. when car or camera are moving. Sometimes it becomes unreadable when reducing the picture or file size. The contributor could enter the correct registration in the field then.
It could be difficult in the case of a faked plate, when the real plate is known. Or when the car has different plates during the movie (www.imcdb.org/vehicle_226445.html). Which one should be recorded in this case?
All in all I think this could be a nice feature, but I doubt that it will be accepted by most contributors (like the screentime or the foreign movie title fields, which often stay empty).

I think this is a good idea; there are lots of movie-making companies that reuse some plates in different movies. Could be interesting to see how many cars have the same registration, or just to see how many movies the same car has been in.

But it may not be as simple as adding a field; it should contain the country of origin as well; i mean if speaking of the Bullitt plate it should say "US, CA, JJZ 109"

I could help with this if needed.

Any ideas?

This would be a very useful feature.

Typing hundreds of numbers and letters daily? No thanks.

Nice feature.
But we should discuss a format how to fill it. With '-', capitals etc.

not daily, just for without-life people if any person still the 24 hours in this "site". Sorry, but exists more important things also this.

I don't think it's very useful. Will anyone search by license plate number? If not then just leave that info in the photo. Maybe if IMCDb automatically queried all DLVA/smog/etc plate databases to get the car info, that would be nice

For one car used in various films, it'd be nice to have a feature to "link" these vehicle entries together, but the license plates are not always the same. Also, as was mentioned by others, different cars often use the same movie plate numbers.

I'll keep that in mind. I actually did put the fictional Mayberry squad car license plate number in the movie comments for "The Andy Griffith Show," and even re-created one using the Acme License Plate maker.

http://www.imcdb.org/movie.php?id=53479

Ahhh :
http://www.imcdb.org/movie.php?id=392465