# Circa 1948

> Photo & Video

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/id836688265](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id836688265)

## Overview

- **ID:** `id836688265`
- **Platform:** Apple
- **Type:** Apple app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** National Film Board of Canada – Office national du film du Canada
- **Category:** Photo & Video
- **Rating:** 3.40 / 5 (22 ratings)
- **Version:** 1.0.4
- **Last updated:** 2015-02-06
- **First published:** 2014-04-19
- **Size:** 1.88 GB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-07
- **Store listing:** [Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/circa-1948/id836688265)
- **Website:** [http://nfb.ca/circa1948](http://nfb.ca/circa1948)
- **Privacy policy:** [http://www.nfb.ca/about/important-notices/](http://www.nfb.ca/about/important-notices/)

## Description

“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.
 
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.

## Rankings

- #270,650 — Overall

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