National Film Board and Tribeca Film Festival

Tribeca Film Festival: The scenes are from the innovative National Film Board of Canada-produced project "Circa 1948," which includes an artistic 3-D app, a website and an interactive installation that launched in competition at Tribeca Film Festival's Storyscapes program in New York on Tuesday, according to Times Colonist. The free iPad and iPhone app, which also launched Tuesday, allows users to navigate their own way through two locations that were vibrant at that time but no longer exist today: The ethnically diverse Hogans Alley on the east side, and the old Hotel Vancouver in the west end and It's 1948 and a mysterious woman checks into the Hotel Vancouver, telling the front desk she's looking for her husband. Meanwhile, a local radio newscast announces a housing crisis for legions of homeless war vets, and a police constable confesses he's at the hotel to place a bet with a bookie. Renowned Vancouver-based visual artist Stan Douglas and the NFB Digital Studio co-created the so-called storyworld, which offers an immersive experience that takes users directly into the sights, sounds and headlines of the city back then. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.