FEATURES
Mixed-reality storytelling guided by a live map and location-based
experiences.
Probably the only iPhone application that lets you:
- Play morality board games
- Find creepy old stamps
- Browse a pop-up book of evil architecture
- Breathe deeply in an ether dome
- Cinematic shorts reveal key places and plot twists to a crime
that still lurks in the landscape of present-day Boston,
- Access to hidden clubs, historic buildings, and hidden gems in
America’s loveliest urban enclave
“'Walking Cinema: Murder on Beacon Hill' is an audio and video
tour detailing the notorious 19th-century slaying of a wealthy
Bostonian, George Parkman. Real-life relics, a skull here, a weapon
there, will be placed in stores and other buildings on Beacon Hill,
serving as waypoints for the tour.” -Boston Globe
"Because it knows where you are, it can encourage you to see things and
meet people you wouldn't normally see or meet….It can lead to more
fulfilling travel and more ongoing relationships with the cities that
you travel to." -Reuters
"Walking Cinema: Murder on Beacon Hill" is a project developed by Untravel Media for the Center for Independent Documentary.
It
is
a
first-of-its-kind mobile companion to a documentary film set in
the original story space. We're excited to hear what you think of the
project and plan to create more of these. This project was supported by
a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Please feel
free to contact the creators at info@untravelmedia.com. We appreciate
any type of feedback that will help us improve and expand on this new
platform for telling stories. Visit our Flickr group
to add your own photos from the tour!
CREDITS
Narrated by Alexandra
McDougall
Voice Work by Paul Logan, Jr
.
Soundtrack by Sasha Mandel
Directed by Michael Epstein, Untravel
Media
Based on a film by Eric Stange and Melissa Banta, Spy Pond Productions
Animation and Video Production by Laura Piraino, Untravel Media
Graphic Design by Caitlin Mailly, Untravel Media
Map Animation and Renderings by Michael Born, Born
Illustration, Inc.
Application Design by Raizlabs
Project Coordinated by Susi Walsh, Center for Independent Documentary
Production Assistant, Brooke Scibelli
Created with funds from the National
Endowment
for
the
Humanities, Digital Humanities Startup Program
INTERVIEWS
S. Parkman “Parkie” Shaw, descendent of George Parkman
Ronald Story, historian
Karen Halttunen, historian
STOP HOSTS
Massachusetts General Hospital, Programming and Special Events
Liberty Hotel
Black Ink
Blackstone's
Harvard Musical Association
Appalachian Mountain Club
PHOTO CREDITS
Historic Photography and Print Images
Print Department Boston Public Library
Map Reproduction Courtesy of the Norman B. Leventhal Map Center at the
Boston Public Library
Liberty Hotel
United States Library of Medicine
Margaret K. Hofer (Images from “The Games We played”)
Harvard Musical Association
Massachusetts General Hospital
Massachusetts Historical Society
Massachusetts State Archive
American Antiquarian Society
Archive Photo
Boston Athenaeum
Boston Police Archives
Boston Public Library
Bostonian Society
Brooklyn Museum of Art
Brown Brothers
Cambridge Historical Commission
City of Boston Archives
Corbis Images
Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
The Granger Collection
Harvard Business School
Harvard University Archives
Massachusetts General Hospital
Massachusetts Historical Society
Massachusetts State Archive
McLean Hospital
Minnesota Historical Society
New York Public Library
North Wind Picture Archive
Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities
Supreme Judicial Court Archives, Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Ancestry.com
CREATIVE COMMONS AND FLICKR
Gallows Photograph
Elstruthio
Notebook Imagery
Michael
Pereckas
Azores Imagery
J. Some
The Freesound Project
VIDEO SOURCES
The Henry Ford
Museum
Spypod Productions Murder at Harvard