New York - The nonprofit Tribeca Film Institute on Monday announced the launch of Reframe, an online service that will help filmmakers, libraries and other media owners digitize, market and sell their classic and hard-to-find films and video content using the Internet.

The service aims to be "an important resource for filmmakers and distributors wanting to bring films to educators, film scholars and the general public; it will be a destination for scholars, artists, teachers and film enthusiasts to easily search for and locate content."

Reframe will work with Amazon-owned (NASD: AMZN) DVD-on-demand publisher CreateSpace on the service, which was created with financial support from the John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.

Films digitized using the service will be made available for purchase on DVD via Amazon.com, or for download via Amazon Unbox.

The service launches with about 500 titles, and hopes to expand to 10,000 titles over the next year, The New York Times reported.

Related Links:
http://snipurl.com/2ermi

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/09/movies/09trib.html

http://www.createspace.com

http://www.tribecafilminstitute.org

http://www.reframecollection.org