Here you will find a brief overview of one of the most fun, crazy, exhausting, rewarding apps we ever created for Turner Classic Movies.  It was way ahead of its time in the historic period of 2004 and it really worked.  An Action Script site built in conjunction with The Chopping Block in NY that pushed the limits of animation, Flash and XML.  TCM showed over 300 movies a month, and with no phones running apps in those days, it was hard to find and watch specific things you loved on TCM.  The Customer Scheduler allowed you to set dozens of personal preferences around actors, directors, genres, even letterboxing and close captioning, and watch your personal schedule materialize right there online, ready to printed out to plan your days and nights.  The entire Flash app read an insane database we stitched together via thousands of tables in the early days of JSON.  It wasn't until the introduction of HTML5 that we finally saw some things come close to The Custom Scheduler in terms of pure animation synchronized effortlessly with consumer data.  So many late nights and weekends and it was a work of art mixed beautifully with some truly ahead of its time innovative engineering and beautiful design (some incredible animation effects even by today's standards).  It was 8 months of hard work.  I had what I called the Anthony Mann test (one of my favorite directors).  Could the schedule allow me to find all my favorite Anthony Mann Westerns in letterbox format playing in the evenings and on weekends, only starring Jimmy Stewart?  The answer was finally...yes.  

This precious on-air commercial for TCM.com provides a glimpse.