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Circa 1948

“This trip to the past is a glimpse at the future” - TIME. Enter the shadows of a post-war North American city through this film noir inspired, historically based immersive art app. Requires iPhone 4S/iPad 2 and above.
Category Price Seller Device
Photo & Video Free National Film Board / Office national du film iPhone, iPad, iPod

The first Real-time 3D art app to tell a story inspired by real events. An immersive experience created by internationally renowned artist Stan Douglas and the award-winning NFB Digital Studio. Through photorealistic 3D illustrations rendered from Douglas’ extensive historical research, Circa 1948 takes users to the late 1940s, Vancouver, BC, a young city in the midst of urban planning, but divided along lines of race and income. Eavesdrop on long lost conversations in two carefully recreated locations: an Old Hotel in Vancouver’s affluent west side, then squatted by homeless war veterans, or the muddy streets of ethnically diverse Hogan’s Alley in the working class east side, populated by racial minorities, gamblers, prostitutes and corrupt police officers. Produced by the National Film Board of Canada.

Features
- Extensive historical detail
- Period music and audio
- 44 film noir influenced conversations
- Historically accurate props, architecture and landscapes
- Open-source real-time 3D engine
- Touch and gyroscope-driven navigation modes

Supported Devices
- iPhone 4S, 5, 5C and 5S
- iPad 2, 3rd and 4th generation iPad, iPad Air, iPad Mini and 2nd generation iPad Mini.

Reviews

Nope
Feline Muse

It keeps crashing and the controls are atrocious. Why isn’t there a way to change the controls?


Fascinating and impressive - Wish it worked
Writer on the move

Can’t get the app to load reliably with iOS 13. It goes into endless loop after introduction before loading chapters. I’ve been able to stumble into the chapters enough times to see how rich and detailed the program is, lots of work and research. Really beautiful. Hope it can be updated to fix the loading bug. Low rating due to reliability only.


Noir jazz
shutupsfe

Feels for the windy scenes


Beautiful, and working again!
ScotChestnut

FYI: WORKS AFTER iOS 14.1 UPDATE Incredibly immersive, with an impressive amount of detail. I can easily lose track of time just taking in all the sights and sounds of this app. Unfortunately, it tends to crash occasionally, and it needs an update to take advantage of the resolution of newer devices... I can't even take one star off for the instability; it's just that stunning.


Don’t know anything about the game
Justbetweenyouandme

I don’t know anything about the game.... It would not load. It crashed the first time I loaded it. The second time it just stayed on the opening music and screen.. Nothing!


Great way to force device to purge cache! ?
Bunners8000

I haven't tried the app at all because I am chronically short on space on my phone! BUT, if you have less space than the 2g this app requires (‼️), trying to install it will cause the device to free up space by purging some cache- namely "Documents & Data" from the lame Apple Podcasts app! ?


Fantastic!
ArtLoverNYC

This app is amazing- the graphics are so good, it feels like you've actually traveled back in time. Can't get enough of it!!


I really wanted to like this app!!
imaStrong1

This is really cool in concept, but I keep finding that I'm "floating" through wall into space and can't get back to the ally or the hotel without restarting. Also, I have had to listen to the same conversations a few times. Lastly, I'm not sure what the point is? Am I solving a crime? I really want to like this!!


5 stars
M Healy

Great app! Informative and interesting. The graphics are incredible!


Amazing!
ArtAppFan

This version to even better! Beautiful work.