Episodes
Friday Aug 14, 2020
1895 - The Dawn of Cinema
Friday Aug 14, 2020
Friday Aug 14, 2020
In our inaugural episode, we begin our journey into film history at where it (debatably) starts, 1895! The year the Lumiere Brothers had the first public exhibition of films for an audience.
You can check out the youtube playlist of the films discussed this week here
And you can see all of our social medias and whatnot here
--- The Beginnings of Film ---
Sallie Gardner at a Gallop
Eadweard Muybridge, Zoopraxographer (1975)
Dickson Experimental Sound Film
--- The Cinematographe Lumiere Presentation ---
Workers Leaving the Lumiere Factory
Trick Riding
Fishing for Goldfish
The Photographical Congress Arrives in Lyon
The Blacksmiths
The Sprinkler Sprinkled
Baby's Meal
Jumping the Blanket
Cordeliers' Square in Lyon
The Sea
--- More experiments and advances ---
Annabelle Serpentine Dance
The Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots
The Mechanical Butcher
Tuesday Sep 01, 2020
1896 - Watch Out For That Train!!
Tuesday Sep 01, 2020
Tuesday Sep 01, 2020
Wow! 2 weeks! Who would have guessed! In this episode we talk about cinema's second year, including one of the most iconic films of all time, Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat Station. This year the Lumieres develop their techniques and send cameras to capture actualities around the world, plus we see the rise of Georges Méliès: the first person to see the true potential of film as a storytelling art form and lover of spooky skeletons.
Sorry about the audio quality in this one, we had a big of a technical kerfuffle and had to use the backup zoom audio, but we'll be working with our spiffy condenser mics next week!
The full playlist of films discussed
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--- The Iconic Arrival of a Train and its Terrifying Modern Reflections ---
Arrival of a Train
Arrival of a Train 4k
Gross babies
--- The Lumières Advance in Technique ---
Lancement d'un navire
Quai de l'Archevêché, Lyon
Duel au pistolet
Panorama of the Grand Canal, Venice
Demolition of a wall
--- Enter Georges Melies ---
Card Party
The Vanishing Lady
The House of the Devil
--- Racial Imagery ---
A Nightmare
A Morning Bath
Ignatiy Vishnevetsky’s review
--- The First Horny Films ---
The Kiss
What a a mutoscope looks like
Le Coucher de la Mariée
--- Alice Guy-Blance, the First Female Director ---
The Cabbage Fairy, which is actually lost
Wednesday Sep 09, 2020
1897 - Film Explodes Metaphorically and also Literally
Wednesday Sep 09, 2020
Wednesday Sep 09, 2020
Spiritualism! Piracy! Towering infernos! War! X-Rays! And the film explosion around the world! Must be 1897, where we had a LOT of movies to talk about.
We have a Youtube channel, where you can find playlists containing all the movies we talk about, plus a twitter and facebook which you can find at linktr.ee/1w1y
Playlist of the films discussed
--- A catastrophic disaster, and more importantly, my projectionist nightmare ---
The 1897 Charity Bazaar Fire
Bonfire of Destiny trailer (2019)
--- Georges Méliès, whomst everyone desperately desires to imitate ---
The Haunted Castle
The Last Cartridges
(The Painting, Les Dernières Cartouches)
Surrender of Tournavos
Between Calais and Dover
Sea Combat in Greece
On the Roofs
The Bewitched Inn
--- Voyeuristic Tendencies ---
After the Ball
Pillow Fight / Seminary Girls
Through the Keyhole, (actually from 1901)
--- George Albert Smith, Britain’s answer to Méliès ---
The X Ray Fiend
Old Man Drinking a Glass of Beer
Miller and the Sweep
--- Alice Guy-Blaché’s earliest surviving films ---
"Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché" (2019)
At the Hypnotist’s
On the Roofs
Bathing in a Stream
The Fisherman at the Stream
--- The Lumières and Promio filming around the world ---
Une rue à Tokyo
Laveuses sur la rivière
Policemens' Parade
--- A new genre: The Phantom Ride ---
Leaving Jerusalem by Railway
Haverstraw Tunnel
Panorama du casino pris d’uh bateau
--- The Lumières attempt to Do A Méliès ---
Faust - Apparition de Méphistophélès
The Merry Skeleton
--- Feature length AND widescreen!? The Corbett-Fitzsimmons Fight ---
The Corbett-Fitzsimmons Fight High Quality
The Corbett-Fitzsimmons Fight Cryptid Edition
Wednesday Sep 16, 2020
1898 - Editing Begins
Wednesday Sep 16, 2020
Wednesday Sep 16, 2020
Ooh a long-un. But for good reason because the innovation this year is stunning! Cutting enters the scene in a big way and we begin to see the shape of real storytelling forming. Well that part does get a little Jesus-ey but hey, depending on how you see it, it's a 10 minute film telling a story with multiple scenes! Whaaaa! You'll just have to listen and see.
Check out all our socials at linktr.ee/1w1y and see the playlist of all films discussed here.
--- Ship is getting real ---
The Launch of the HMS Albion
Bird's eye angle number 1
Bird's eye angle number 2
--- Some more early efforts in editing ---
Reviewing the ''Texas'' at Grant's Tomb
Return of Lifeboat
A Night to Dismember (1983)
Come Along, Do!
--- Effects extravaganza! ---
Santa Claus, George Albert Smith
The Four Troublesome Heads
William Tell and the Clown
Divers at work on the wreck of the “Maine”
Pygmalion and Galatea
The Astronomer’s Dream (or a more contemporary soundtrack here)
Panorama from the top of a Moving Train
--- We need to be giving the Lumière boys some more credit ---
Panorama pendant l’ascension de la Tour Eiffel
Panorama pris d'un ballon captif
The Woodcutter, a Music Lover
The Life and Passion of Jesus Christ
--- Odds and ends and Cris’s Gripes ---
The Turn of the Century Blind Man
The Cavalier’s Dream
Wax House, Baby!
Don’t look at letterboxd reviews for movies from the 1890s
I couldn't find the blasphemous Windows Movie Maker clip :(
Something Good: Negro Kiss
Wednesday Sep 23, 2020
1899 - Storytelling Gets More Complex, 5 Years In
Wednesday Sep 23, 2020
Wednesday Sep 23, 2020
5 weeks, 5 years! And now it's nearing the turn of the century! People are starting to use edits to tell stories!!! What??
Find the full playlist of films discussed here on youtube
And find all of our social medias here!
--- Méliès and His Love of Demons ---
Pillar of Fire
The Devil in a Convent
The Mysterious Knight
The Dreyfus Affair
Philosophy Tube's Antisemitism video, which has an in-detail rundown of the Dreyfus Affair
Cinderella
--- The George Albert Smith cinematic advancement and a Filthy Stealer ---
The Kiss in the Tunnel
Bamforth Kiss in the Tunnel
The Biter Bit
--- The Lumière Boys Are Branching Out ---
Lancement du “Varese” à Livourne
Un Tournoi
Parade of Flowered Automobiles
Opium Smoking
Équilibre et moulinet
The Priest and the Mannequins
--- Alice Guy Blache May Party Too Hard ---
Wonderful Absinthe
At the Club
--- Edison is Mean to Animals ---
Trick Bears
Fun in Camp
Admiral Dewey Arriving at Gibralter
--- Potpourri and Our First Negative Reviews ---
The Jeffrey Sharkey Fight (lost)
King John
Momijigari
Upside Down, or The Human Flies
Ladies Skirts Nailed to a Fence/Womens’ Rights
In the Grip of the Blizzard
Panorama from the tower of the Brooklyn Bridge
Wednesday Sep 30, 2020
1900 - Welcome to the 20th Century!
Wednesday Sep 30, 2020
Wednesday Sep 30, 2020
The Twentieth Century! From Joan of Arc to The Matrix, this is where we'll spend the bulk of our podcasting time! What's to come? Well what is to come in this episode is Glen said a cuss so we're now ~explicit~!
A full playlist of the films discussed is available to you if you would only click this link.
Likewise for our social media mumbo jumbo.
--- Mandatory Georges Méliès Check-in ---
Joan of Arc
Automobile Parade (Edison)
The One Man Band
The Doctor and the Monkey
Going to Bed Under Difficulties
A Fantastical Meal
The Christmas Dream
--- The British Invasion ---
Let Me Dream Again
Grandma’s Reading Glass
As Seen Through a Telescope
The Dull Razor
Attack on a China Mission
How it Feels to Be Run Over
Explosion of a Motorcar
--- Alice Guy-Blaché: Gay or Just European? ---
Turn-of-the-Century Surgery
Danse Serpentine
Automated Hat-Maker and Sausage-Grinder
Pierrette's Escapades
At the Floral Ball
--- Misc/Ernest Scared Stupid ---
Uncle Josh’s Nightmare/Uncle Josh in a Spooky Hotel
Cyrano De Bergerac
The Enchanted Drawing
Sherlock Holmes Baffled
Wednesday Oct 07, 2020
1901 - The First Great Movie Year
Wednesday Oct 07, 2020
Wednesday Oct 07, 2020
It's cussin' time because Glen did a swear. Also movies! We're seeing such new complexity in form this year that we had to make a long long long episode to talk about it all. Very impressive!
You can see our tweetums and whatnot here!
And you can see the full playlist of films discussed here!
--- Aaaaah the French ---
Starting with Méliès as always
Man with the Rubber Head
The Dwarf and the Giant
The Devil and the Statue
Méliès's lost Red Riding Hood Film
Blue Beard
--- New on the scene, Ferdinand Zecca ---
What is Seen Through a Keyhole
Drama at the Bottom of the Sea
History of a Crime
---- The British Invasion ---
Walter R. Booth and Robert W. Paul Power Team
Scrooge, or, Marley’s Ghost
The Death of Poor Joe (George Albert Smith)
The Over-Incubated Baby
The Countryman and the Cinematograph
The Magic Sword
James Williamson
The Big Swallow
Mitchell and Kenyon Actualities
Fire!
Stop, Thief!
--- The ‘Mericans ---
Edwin S. Porter
Kansas Saloon Smashers
Why Mr. Nation Wants a Divorce
Execution of Leon Czolgosz with Panorama of Auburn Prison
Demolishing and Building up the Star Theatre
Thanks for listening!
Thursday Nov 12, 2020
1902 - A Trip to the Moon!!!!!
Thursday Nov 12, 2020
Thursday Nov 12, 2020
We're back after a monthlong moving-induced break! Back for the biggest grandest bestest famousest silent film in history! This will also be our first video episode, where you can watch along while we talk! Handy. You can watch the Youtube version here, which you should because I worked very hard on it. If you'd prefer the musical accompaniment, you can check out the full playlist of films discussed here as always.
--- The Terrible Americans ---
Jack and the Beanstalk
Uncle Josh at the Moving Picture Show
The Boys Think They Have One on Foxy Grandpa, but He Fools Them
Foxy Grandpa and Polly in a Little Hilarity
The 20th Century Tramp; or Happy Hooligan and his Airship
--- The Oft-Ripped-Oft Europeans ---
Conquering the Air / A la Conquête de l’Air (1901)
The Little Match Seller
Alcohol and Its Victims
Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
Midwife to the Upper Class
Alfred Raymond, Agnes May, & Wilfred Sydney
--- The MVP, The Main Man Himself ---
An Impossible Balancing Feat
The Human Fly
Eruption of Mount Pele
Ferdinand Zecca's version, Catastrophe de la Martinique
Gulliver’s Travels Among the Lilliputians and the Giants
Robinson Crusoe
--- LA VOYAGE ---
A Trip to the Moon (though I'd recommend going and renting a high quality version)
Thanks for listening! Check out our tweetums and youtubes here!
Sunday Nov 29, 2020
1903 - The Greatest Train Robbery You Ever Did See
Sunday Nov 29, 2020
Sunday Nov 29, 2020
One More Week, One More Year, that's what I always say! Anyway time to get to another one of the big ones: The Great Train Robbery! It's been given a bit of credit it may not deserve but it is actually really good anyway!
We're doing video versions of every episode now, where you can see the movies while we talk about them and also see our ugly mugs!
You can catch them at our youtube page here, and this episode in particular here
Here's a link to the Films Discussed playlist if you'd like to watch along but with a soundtrack where available!
You can catch up on all our social whatsits at linktr.ee/1w1y
To start: A Foxy Grandpa Update
--- Ambitious Whimsical Europeans ---
Kingdom of the Fairies
Melies sketches from Hugo
The Life and Passion of Jesus Christ
The Voros Twins Saying “Da Vinki?” (2020)
Diving Lucy
Mary Jane’s Mishap
Alice in Wonderland
--- The 1903 British Chase Films ---
A Daring Daylight Burglary
Desperate Poaching Affray
Runaway Match
--- Edwin S. Porter’s Lows and Highs ---
Life of an American Fireman
Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Slavery Days
Electrocuting an Elephant (WARNING: Graphic)
The Great Train Robbery
Thanks for listening! See ya next year!
Wednesday Dec 16, 2020
1904 - Impossible Voyages Under the Mistletoe
Wednesday Dec 16, 2020
Wednesday Dec 16, 2020
One Slow Week, One Slow Year. Hey, after the absolute knockouts of 1902 and 1903, it's time for our early film pioneers to coast a bit. But there are still some diamonds in the rough and some genuinely cool things this year! Have a listen!
We have a youtube version where you can watch along while we talk about these movies, plus see a little bit of our pretty mugs! Check it out here https://youtu.be/bum9f_wrLNU
There's also a playlist where you can watch these on your own accord with sound accompaniment where available right here!
And finally you can catch up on all our social whatsits at linktr.ee/1w1y
--- Méliès Shows us His Range ---
The Impossible Voyage
The Cook in Trouble
The Christmas Angel
The Terrible Turkish Executioner
--- Checking in on Our Other Europals ---
The Mistletoe Bough
Grand Display of Brock’s Fireworks at the Crystal Palace
An Interesting Story
The Strike
--- You Never Have Any Clue What You'll Get Out of the Americans ---
The Ex-Convict
Photographing a Female Crook
European Rest Cure
How a French Nobleman Got a Wife Through the New York Herald Personal Columns
Personal
The Bold Bank Robbery
See ya next year!
Thursday Dec 31, 2020
1905 - Time for Some Dark and Gritty
Thursday Dec 31, 2020
Thursday Dec 31, 2020
Things are picking up! And while the films (and subsequently the cast) are getting longer, they're starting to play with new ideas! Alice Guy is making sync sound phonoscènes and in the States, Wallace McCutcheon and Edwin S. Porter are working with some more serious dramatic material, and also babies robbing trains!
You can check out our socials and check out our youtube version where you can watch along at http://linktr.ee/1w1y
And you can watch and form your own opinions from our Films Discussed playlist right here.
--- Melies gettin’ New Yawwk ---
Rip’s Dream
The Palace of the Arabian Nights
An Adventurous Automobile Trip (The first half is in color here)
The Enchanted Sedan Chair
--- The European Wonders ---
Félix Mayol Performs “Indiscreet Questions”
Alice Guy Films a “Phonoscène”
The Hen that Laid the Golden Eggs
--- American DRAMA ---
The Little Train Robbery
The Night Before Christmas
The Kleptomaniac
The Miller’s Daughter
The White Caps
The Nihilist
--- Potpourri ---
Rescued by Rover
The Unfortunate Policeman
Down in the Coal Mines
The Taking of Rome
See you next year!
Wednesday Jan 13, 2021
1906 - Featuring... Feature Film!
Wednesday Jan 13, 2021
Wednesday Jan 13, 2021
A lot of films to talk about this week! We’re reaching around the world (but mainly to France) and finding fairies, finding Jesus, and watching cartoons, and getting rustled by outlaws.
You can check out our socials and our youtube version where you can watch along at http://linktr.ee/1w1y
And you can watch and form your own opinions from our Films Discussed playlist right here.
--- Méliès and the Féerie tradition ---
The Merry Frolics of Satan
The Witch
A Desperate Crime
The Chimney Sweep
The Mysterious Retort (Mislabeled as 1897)
The Tramp and the Mattress Makers
--- Alice Guy and her Magnum Opus ---
The Drunken Mattress
The Birth, the Life, and the Death of Christ
The Consequences of Feminism
--- Pathé is doing some real varied stuff! ---
The Spring Fairy
Bob’s Electric Theatre
Aladdin and his Wonder Lamp
The Bell Ringer’s Daughter
The Law of Forgiveness
--- Anglophone Favorites ---
The Story of the Kelly Gang
Dream of a Rarebit Fiend
Three American Beauties
The Black Hand
The Secret of Death Valley
Is Spiritualism a Fraud?
The “?” Motorist
Humorous Phases of Funny Phases
Glen’s Favorite: The Spring Fairy
Cris’s Favorite: The Drunken Mattress
Intro song: Ned Kelly by Johnny Cash
See you next year!