#mopix

[mopixgame]

Let’s Go …

[usnatarchives]

Army AV tech inspects motion picture reel, NARA ID 6399202.

CALLING ALL FILM BUFFS! 🎥

FILMS OF STATE - 1st-ever VIRTUAL Gov't Film Conference April 7-9 Register online for this special FREE virtual event - in partnership with U-MD - and join us for screenings, presentations, panels, and “how-to” film research guidance. Open to filmmakers, press, film students/historians/scholars, and anyone else interested in gov't films! Full schedule here. Archivist of the United States David S. Ferriero will welcome participants. Learn more in Audrey Amidon's Unwritten Record blog, Introducing Films of State.

Session highlights include:

Uncle Sam Presents: 75 Years of Government Films

Vaccine and Antidote: US Military Psychiatric Films in WWII

Correcting Corrections: Instructional Films for Corrections Officers Post-Attica

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle: Government Films’ Second Life on the Small Screen

A Federal Vision of Black-Owned Land in Rural Georgia: the US Information Service’s Men of the Forest (1952)

Jean Bridget (L) and Ethel Burke (R) examine some of the millions of feet of film at the National Archives before cataloguing it. 10/8/1944. NARA ID 208-FS-3221.

As you well know, the National Archives holds the permanently valuable records of the federal government. In addition to 14 billion documents, including the Declaration of Independence, Constitution, and Bill of Rights, the agency also holds an estimated half a million reels of motion picture film–the world’s largest public domain film collection. The Motion Picture Preservation Lab physically handles about 2 million feet of film per year – if laid out end-to-end, it would be greater than the distance between College Park, MD, and Boston, MA.  They include the Apollo 11 raw footage, the Iwo Jima Flag Raising, The March on Washington, and the first color film of Yellowstone National Park!

NARA staffer in the Nitrate Motion Picture Film Storage Vault, NARA ID 12168512.

Glenn C. Henry with NARA Motion Picture Film, 10/12/1937, NARA ID 5928166.

[mopixgame]

New Edit In Molti ☄️

[1001tales-blog]

Game Changer? MoPix Releases First Feature Film The Tunnel as an iPad app #infdist

via getmopix.com

[stoodlemayer]

**[Self-Distributing Your Film? Sell It as a Fully-Featured Android or Apple iOS App with MoPix](http://nofilmschool.com/2012/08/sell-film-android-apple-ios-app-mopix/) (NoFilmSchool)** >...a new company called MoPix is creating a way for anyone to sell their films by turning them into fully-featured Android or iOS apps. >...which could cost filmmakers anywhere from $1,000 to $5,000 depending on how complicated the app is. That's actually not that bad of a deal, considering that's how much it would cost you to have 1000-5000 DVDs replicated. Given the advent of mobile computing, releasing a film as an app could very well become the distribution method of the future. Right now caps on app size limit the full potential of app-based distribution, but the benefits could very well outweigh the costs. But I'm not sold completely, I'd much rather have something like iBooks Author, where I could go and 'create' a DVD-like app, but I doubt that will be coming anytime soon. Here's a [YouTube walkthrough](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtPHh_pBCZo) of one of MoPix's apps. And you can read more about MoPix on their [website](http://www.getmopix.com).