Combat Camera Veteran Launches History Website, Real Military Flix
New Site Showcases Rare Military Movie Archive with Films from WWI to
Present Day
LOS ANGELES (Business Wire EON/PRWEB ) January 30, 2008 --
RealFlix Media LLC today announced the upcoming launch of www.RealMilitaryFlix.com,
the world’s largest online military history
film website with over 1,800 titles. Premiering February 1st,
RealMilitaryFlix.com spotlights original productions made by the
military for documentary, training and propaganda purposes including World
War I, World
War II Allied and World
War II Axis power films. The site will launch with about 500 films
and roll out new ones every week. Many of the movies, such as the secret
agent training films, were once top-secret but have since been
de-classified.
The site was conceived by veteran television producer John Corry, a
former Combat Camera Officer in the US Air Force. Corry left the service
in 1990 to produce commercial television. “We
began collecting these films for military history documentaries,”
Corry said. “I would notice how engrossed our
show producers would become when they started viewing these movies. They
were usually just scanning for one or two shots to edit, but would wind
up watching the entire film.”
With the permission of the US Department of Defense, Corry was able to
collect hundreds of films and videos during the production of classic TV
shows such as Weapons at War with George C. Scott, Sworn to Secrecy with
Charlton Heston, and the first all-color WWII series The Color of War
with Peter Coyote.
The RealMilitaryFlix.com library spans from the Wright Brothers’
first flight to new videos from Iraq and Afghanistan. It also features
captured Vietcong, German, Japanese and Italian military films. The site
also features up-to-the-minute military headlines, games and forums for
members to discuss the films and other military history topics. The
subscription-based site is discounted for US military veterans and
retirees.
In association with www.MilitaryConnection.com,
RealMilitaryFlix will run special promotions to donate to charities that
assist servicemen and women returning from Iraq and Afghanistan. The
website officially launches February 1st at www.RealMilitaryFlix.com.
Media Notes:
The site will be opened from January
30 –
31 only to members of the media for review.
For its Opening Weekend, visitors can opt-in for a free 3-Day pass to
some of the best films on the site – from
February 1-3.
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