IMDb Titles by the Numbers

After looking at the names yesterday, here is a list of the first titles on the IMDb, based on their id number.

1. Carmencita (1894)
2. Le Clown et ses chiens (1892)
3. Pauvre Pierrot (1892)
4. Un bon bock (1892)
5. Blacksmith Scene (1893)
6. Chinese Opium Den (1894)
7. Corbett and Courtney Before the Kinetograph (1894)
8. Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze (which has got to be my favourite movie title of all time; 1894)
9. Miss Jerry (1894)
10. La Sortie des usines Lumière (1895)

While these are all early efforts of film, the oldest title in the IMDb is Roundhay Garden Scene from 1888 at #392.728. The last title as of now is Ático from 2000 at #815.755.

There are roughly three times more names in the IMDb than titles.

Complicated Pastiche

From the Wikipedia-page of Avril Lavigne's "Complicated":

In terms of chord sequence, "Complicated" is a masterful pastiche of several classic hit songs patterns. The acoustic guitar is tuned down a whole step so as to avoid the common sound of these chords in G. Instead, the song is in F major and this was likely more fitting for Avril's voice. The introduction is a strummed vi-IV-I-V which returns as the chorus with different rhythmic accents. The verse of the song employs the I-vi-IV-V sequence associated with hit songs of a bygone era while the prechorus exploits an angsty IV-vi movement which suggests grunge: IV-vi-IV-V. Finally the chorus arrives with that satisfying vi-VI-I-V.

(Emphasis by me.)

O...kay. If whoever wrote that could maybe, I don't know, write songs for Avril Lavigne that would actually deserve a description like that, the world would be a slightly better place.

Oh, and don't ask why I was reading that page in the first place. It's complicated.

IMDb Names by the Numbers

Sorted by their respective "id number", the first people on the IMDb are

1. Fred Astaire
2. Lauren Bacall
3. Brigitte Bardot
4. John Belushi
5. Ingmar Bergman
6. Ingrid Bergman
7. Humhrey Bogart
8. Marlon Brando
9. Richard Burton
10. James Cagney

Others include Groucho Marx (#50, with his brothers somewhere in the 500,000s), Rowan Atkinson (#100), Lili Taylor (#666), porn star Tom Byron (#1,000) and IMDb founder Col Needham (#1,000,000).

Addendum: As of this moment (12.30 CET, 18 June 2006), the highest listed number is #2.287.127, which belongs to Luis Selgas.