October 16, 1947 · 4:30 a.m.

The Hollywood File

Meridian Pictures, Los Angeles · October 16, 1947
Nothing in this studio is what it looks like · 90 minutes
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Duration
90 min
Players
1–6best with 3+
Chapters
6
Difficulty
Hard
Language
English
Reading
Some reading, hands-on film work
Controls
Mouse or touchto explore · puzzles work with a keyboard
Price
FreeEarly access · no card

Story for 14+ · accounts for 16+ · the 1947 blacklist, no violence

Inside the rooms

The Blue Lantern, a room in The Hollywood File
The Blue Lantern
Cutting Room B, a room in The Hollywood File
Cutting Room B
The Laboratory, a room in The Hollywood File
The Laboratory
The Projection Booth, a room in The Hollywood File
The Projection Booth
The Screening Room, a room in The Hollywood File
The Screening Room

The story

4:30 a.m.
Meridian Pictures, Los Angeles
At six the studio shows Exhibit A to the Committee’s investigator. The studio says this film shows the screenwriter Thomas Wren through a café window, passing an envelope to a foreign agent.
The young actress
Iris Vale is missing
Nobody has seen her since a screen test at the weekend. She left only a camera report with lipstick across it, and the name of the café in the morning paper.
Your night
Find the take nobody developed
A take is one filmed try of a scene. Wren’s lawyer has sent you to the Blue Lantern. A night guard let you in and locked the door behind you. Prove what Exhibit A really is before the lights go down at six.

How it plays

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Search the room. Nothing is marked: touch whatever looks like evidence.
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Papers and finds stay in the file. You can read every card inside every puzzle.
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Every run is a different night: the numbers, the lens, the take and the man dressed as Wren all change.
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Every sound in the game is also drawn on screen, so a muted phone misses nothing.
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