Turner Classic Movies Launches Digital Media Room with Special Premiere of RKO Classic Feature Film
Turner Classic Movies (TCM) is pleased to announce TCM's Media Room, an exciting addition to their website. TCM Media Room offers users an online cinematic experience including classic videos, clips from the original trailer or many classic movies and an occasional feature film. To commemorate the launch of this new feature, TCM will offer the classic movie Living on Love (1937) for free on the TCM Media Room website.
Atlanta, GA (PRWEB) May 24, 2007 -- To celebrate the unveiling of its new, innovative video portal at TCM.com/mediaroom, Turner Classic Movies (TCM), will present the RKO romantic comedy classic from 1937 Living on Love uncut and commercial free on its Web site. TCM's Media Room, which is slated to launch on Friday, June 1, aggregates more than 3,000 short-form videos, including classic trailers, short films, classic movie clips and interstitials, as well as an occasional feature film, and offers users an online cinematic experience. The premiere of Living on Love will be offered free for viewing for a limited time in June.
TCM's Media Room presents the Internet's first major video destination devoted entirely to classic film and the first regularly devoted to widescreen cinema. Users can view movie scenes in their true panoramic widescreen Cinemascope format, without letterboxing, and in large expandable views.
"To our knowledge, this is the first time anyone has offered this much genuine widescreen cinema available online anywhere," said Richard Steiner, vice president of new media, TNT/TBS/TCM. "We are offering a customizable, uncluttered, cinematic user interface that recreates the effect of a theater experience. It's a unique experience, one that demonstrates TCM's continued commitment as curators of classic film."
TCM's Media Room will offer new, programmed themes of classic movie scenes and trailers everyday, and users can create their own play lists of favorite videos, including the ability to recreate their own movie theatre experience with short preview animations. The Web site offers easy-to-browse categories and the ability to search for video from specific actors, directors and filmmakers. Another feature allows users to link and embed URLs for sharing and social networking.
The TCM Media Room significantly expands tcm.com's already extensive, media-rich interactive movie database, which features content related to more than 130,000 titles, listing more than 1.25 million people; 100,000 pieces of biographical data; 15,000 written biographies; and more than 10 million distinct pieces of information, spanning the full continuum of movie history from the 1890s to films currently in production. The database also includes over 500 exclusive image gallery archives of rare and never-before-seen photos on the making and marketing of great classic films, including costume drawings, press books, illustrations, posters, classic scenes and more. In addition, there is comprehensive library content licensed from the American Film Institute's AFI Catalog of Feature Films, an ongoing research project, with additional content purchased from Internet Movie Database, Inc. and other sources. These arrangements allow TCM to include film content from all of the major movie studios.
The romantic comedy Living on Love (1937) is a remake of Rafter Romance (1933). The film was one of six RKO films previously thought lost from the silver screen which have been purchased and preserved by TCM. Prior to its recent premiere on TCM, the last authorized screening of Living on Love was in brief television exposure during the late 1950s. The comedy, starring Whitney Bourne and James Dunn, revolves around two lovers who are unwitting roommates, forced by economics to share an apartment in 12-hour shifts. Although charmed by each other in the outside world, each despises his unseen housing partner and does his/her best to make the other's life miserable.
Turner Classic Movies, currently seen in more than 75 million homes, is a 24-hour cable network from Turner Broadcasting System, Inc., a Time Warner company. TCM presents the greatest motion pictures of all time from the largest film library in the world, the combined Time Warner and Turner film libraries, from the '20s through the '90s, commercial-free and without interruption. The network also offers critically acclaimed original documentaries and specials, including the recent Emmy-winning Stardust: The Bette Davis Story, Brando and Steve McQueen: The Essence of Cool. Our website, TCM.com, features an online database of classic movie information, including biographies, trivia, images and classic movie quotes.
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