While you were sleeping, we were working. Working haaard. Working hard at making movieclips.com a more powerful and (if you can believe it) more fun site for you to use.
More powerful because we are opening up our API to developers, so that you can find new ways of incorporating your favorite movie clips into your internet life. And more fun because movieclips.com is now available to movie fans worldwide. We think both are important steps toward making movie clips even more accessible and even easier to share. The full press release is included below.
So developers, please wander over to http://movieclips.com/developers/ and sign up now for your access to our API. And then keep in touch. Let us know what you’re up to. We’ll be using this space to share some of the best ways people around the web are using our API, and we’d love to include your ideas.
And for all of you in the rest of the world, welcome. We’ve been waiting for you.
MOVIECLIPS.com Goes Global, Opens API
Movieclips.com delivers more than 12,000 Hollywood movie clips to a global audience
SANTA MONICA, California (February 25, 2010) – MOVIECLIPS.com, host of the largest collection of officially-licensed, high quality movie scenes on the web, today opened up its service to users worldwide. MOVIECLIPS.com also released an API, opening up access for approved developers to thousands of clips with rich metadata that includes full-dialogue search, actor details, movie trivia and more.
“Movie clips are a part of our social currency,” says Zach James, MOVIECLIPS.com co-founder. “We reference our favorite scenes all the time – they’re a part of our DNA. But so far, the web’s been entirely without a free, licensed place to go to find clips like the
‘I drink your milkshake’ scene from
There Will Be Blood, or the
‘plastics’ scene from
The Graduate. That blows. So we changed it.”
Movieclips.com is the richest, most robust library of movie clips on the web, featuring more than 12,000 clips from 6 Hollywood studios. The company also developed proprietary technology that assigns up to 1,000 points of data to every scene, making it super easy to find scenes by actor, film title, dialogue snippet, director, genre, etc.
“We were inspired to open the API after our team created a custom plug-in for bloggers using the WordPress platform,” says co-founder Richard Raddon, former director of the Los Angeles Film Festival. “The response from our blogger friends was so overwhelmingly positive that opening up the API more broadly seemed a natural direction. It gives our developer community the chance to build some killer tools to further enhance the user experience and bring these clips to life online.”
“Movie clips should be available to everyone, everywhere,” says James. “It was our dream to open this content up to viewers worldwide. Browsing through thousands of scenes is a great way to rediscover classic Hollywood moments. It reminds us about films we may have forgotten were so funny, or so good. It’s easy to get lost in the site, and it’s hard not to share.”
About MOVIECLIPS.com
Launched in December 2009, MOVIECLIPS.com is a premium online video destination offering audiences the largest and most diverse collection of movie scenes. MOVIECLIPS.com allows fans to find, watch and share more than 12,000 movie clips from the libraries of major Hollywood studios. Visit
www.movieclips.com for more information.
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