One Week, One Year

This time: Advances in animation, strange, dreamlike color projection, Méliès has a bum year, Segundo de Chomón makes Undead Fury Road, and the racist father of American Cinema D.W. Griffith gets his first role. So in order: cool, cool, aw sad, rad AF, booooooo.   You can check out our socials and our youtube version where you can watch along at http://linktr.ee/1w1y   And you can watch...

A lot of great French stuff this year! They've started adapting British chase films, but adding some very French silliness. Pathé is delving into some real creepy territory, and the Americans are blowing our minds with bizarre violence. It's quite a week!   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 for...

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 . &nb...

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...

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:/...

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 h...

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 discus...

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...

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...

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...

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 l...

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, an...

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 ar...

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 Ea...