Hard Knocks Film School

Send a text The Big Swallow: https://youtu.be/I5XJjvlydck?si=8VNybH117QZAoBKE Fire!: https://youtu.be/57SrYj32vmE?si=WslNQ2ZYpq_RhHDB What is Seen Through a Keyhole: https://youtu.be/BPQxQFHRwlA?si=1rmNbRgDyFKVf_TA History of a Crime: https://youtu.be/ucyE9GT1R_E?si=YK29K1APj1tOgWYy History of a Crime featured in Hereditary (2018): https://youtu.be/avt8WheiUP4?si=AWOSHEvksSb6QcZM Scrooge, or Marle...

Send a text The Man With the Rubber Head: https://youtu.be/lgpWtyT1nxM?si=XG17yyHUMbcrCu9h Blue Beard: https://youtu.be/7c7pcxnakzE?si=SDrs1OPghwA4Y4VH Blue Beard colorized by Skynet: https://youtu.be/7u3RyRRQcqQ?si=LzDQbWYfKs0piZbT

Send a text Uncle Josh’s Nightmare :  https://youtu.be/KkSqKmUhZH8?si=_4AVDu7xOG4mG-5x Uncle Josh in a Spooky Hotel :  https://youtu.be/8ZrATNzuksQ?si=PJvifqBU18ThlXvS Let Me Dream Again :  https://youtu.be/MNBMMQbg2-E?si=sRzkJurv0cclzyG5 Grandma’s Reading Glass :  https://youtu.be/07c897Eeuyc?si=EB8lFPBqFOPt7rvi Attack on a China Mission :  https://youtu.be/LGKs13BH3ys?si=61W8jKgVY89xnllf Panoram...

Send a text The One Man Band (1900): https://youtu.be/iOLw8V0AIHY?si=nA901iV5bSE0X2xw The Sultan’s Dream (1900): https://youtu.be/qRIIIDqkny0?si=xIL_-TN_R0GGFlPI A Fat and Lean Wrestling Match (1900): https://youtu.be/gFDjpr48oEw?si=yAr_WZCCpGRUQehd Jeanne d’Arc (1900): https://youtu.be/aDf8ixdipqw?si=IdmHH0xYGeixiAhU

Send a text How it Feels to Be Run Over (1900) - https://youtu.be/6I6jtfNU1iE?si=gn9d74gIo-chKURa The Delights of Automobiling (1900) - https://youtu.be/wTEQTHLkTxc?si=ilbaXOtp166rdoay Pierrette’s Escapades - https://youtu.be/47qRYJVIl9k?si=mPapkbUFi21oMjZe La Fée Aux Choux - https://youtu.be/2kLCaP-AxGk?si=V_Z_uOLWnkjcrUgl The Enchanted Drawing - https://youtu.be/pe7HSnZotbU?si=rsqPiPYEqlRX8NqP S...

Send a text A farewell to the nineteenth century 

Send a text Momijigari (1899) - https://youtu.be/72dn9qZ3q2U?si=UfMEPg6dfIytxLAa Momijigari (play with explainer) - https://youtu.be/k8K4DQmbQwE?si=tBhWm4gVbOthwlXg King John (1899) - https://youtu.be/060wmUF9jt4?si=_FC2hVWkDlW3W4-f Kidnapping by Indians (1899) - https://youtu.be/RBqye5EeujI?si=A8iS67cWgmWSmgOq Cinderella (1899) - https://youtu.be/s1hzP9yzb_U?si=XshBU41V-rU3qvuf

Send a text The Astronomer’s Dream (1898):  https://youtu.be/g8SMIiQZUcs?si=0hKCz-9oawHI6Brk The Four Troublesome Heads (1898):  https://youtu.be/IKQRV4XKZt4?si=2swJq7qC_FYhyAhw Come Along, Do! (1898): https://youtu.be/Sbje9K0KsBQ?si=-q3n2FzVBjuFePpV The Cavalier’s Dream (1898):  https://youtu.be/vLlO_pMSdrs?si=zHuCWRLBE4AX_GHC Santa Claus (1898):  https://youtu.be/Dc3ei1tseeM?si=Z6acRWlKUWEDu18J...

Send a text The Corbett-Fitzsimmons Fight (1897) -  https://youtu.be/l2CtKIpNmNM?si=ykZH0gg16uzw7Opl Leaving Jerusalem by Rail (1897) -  https://youtu.be/OhYLtLouWSA?si=kQMQEM112JTZNFYX Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee (1897) -  https://youtu.be/pTG9NJTZFKk?si=0RC-4LL3mDrXbUVn The Haverstraw Tunnel (1897) -  https://youtu.be/cKcrVNH-MXg?si=8bWZYuT_cGTbIpRy The X-Rays (1897) -  https://youtu.be/3gM...

Send a text La Fée aux Choux (1896) -  https://youtu.be/2kLCaP-AxGk?si=Mv-qvpYNerIk0Uek The Kiss (1896) -  https://youtu.be/twq4XwHplMY?si=Q2aOA391Yx6Obt0j

Send a text The House of the Devil (1896) -  https://youtu.be/qt0w2qP6REg?si=3EWncu6ZQNpTv6J_ The Card Party (1896) -  https://youtu.be/s-jH0K9OC1s?si=II9uP1R_jMl2sT8m

Send a text The Execution of Mary Stuart (1895): https://youtu.be/RpNQJV8KblQ?si=5JgSu-eJ5TmfBuRQ Opening of the Kiel Canal (1895): https://youtu.be/2jpPX8GeWc4?si=YAt4MB5EO4-dx28d The Derby (1895): https://youtu.be/kWVSnUThG60?si=VgLGcdUekekI2I7u Rough Sea at Dover (1895): https://youtu.be/tNSQxXDcafQ?si=X5IQG3By_ZTdrcAi The Mechanical Butcher (1895): https://youtu.be/X6PNgbOxNDg?si=IR_0zsocQFzkM...

Send a text Welcome to 1895! This is an exciting year for film—competition is ramping up to master the art of the moving picture.  Two sets of brothers would ultimately win this race—the Lumiére brothers and the Skladanowsky brothers.  This week we’ll be discussing where and when these first film showings took place, and, more importantly, we discussed the films that were viewed on this historical...

Send a text Welcome back to Hard Knocks Film School! This week it’s 1894 and the lucky few with working cameras are figuring out what to point them at. Get ready for brief vaudeville routines, questionable dances, and scantily-clad boxing. They did their best. Professor Welton’s Boxing Cats -  https://youtu.be/6qre61opE_g?si=Mr8vJmOuuPAaAEYn Annie Oakley -  https://youtu.be/dQSTSNq5dOM?si=WEhMIf-S...

Send a text This week Chloe and Tim are discussing the earliest surviving animated films by Charles-Émile Reynaud, the construction of Thomas Edison’s Black Maria, and our first Side Watch: The Magic Box (1951). Pauvre Pierrot (Poor Pete) (1892) - https://youtu.be/426mqlB-kAY?si=Kzjk7I6QoxhaiF7p Autour d’une Cabine (1894) -  https://youtu.be/A5MXcxaRXNc?si=h4I_v6EJslXua4Bf The Magic Box (1951) - ...

Send a text Welcome back to Hard Knocks Film School! This week we will be discussing the few surviving films from 1889 to 1891, when the “moving pictures” were still busy being invented. What survives from this period are experimental films or “actualités”. New characters arriving on the scene this week are Wordsworth Donisthorpe, William Friese-Greene, and William K Dickson. Links to stuff we tal...

Send a text Welcome to Hard Knocks Film School! In this podcast we're exploring the history and highlights of film chronologically. In our first episode we're discussing the "missing link" between photography and film, Eadweard Muybridge, Louis Le Prince, and the Roundhay Garden Scene from 1888. The First Film (2015) - https://vimeo.com/ondemand/thefirstfilm Man Walking Around...