Episode Details

Film scholar and preservationist Clara Auclair and Tristan talk quite a bit about comedy and tricks, those originating from the stage and those that could only come from the magic of filmic technology. That conversation leads into discussing the phenomenon of early recreations of real events…or are they “fakes!?”

Clara teaches media studies at DIS Stockholm and works as a consultant for film archives. She is a DAFIV research fellow and co-secretary of Domitor, the International Association for the Study of Early Cinema, and is currently working on an edited collection of essays dedicated to the films of Alice Guy-Blaché with former guest Aurore Spiers.

Films and resources mentioned:

• The Six Sisters Dainef (1902) - unknown
• Miss Dundee and Her Performing Dogs (1902) - Alice Guy-Blaché
• Ingenious Soubrette (1902) - Ferdinand Zecca
• The Indiscreet Bathroom Maid (1902) - Georges Hatot
• The Eruption of Mount Pelee (1902) - Georges Méliès
• A Trip to the Moon (1902) - Georges Méliès
• Life and Passion of the Christ (1903) - Ferdinand Zecca
• The Human Fly (1902) - Georges Méliès
• Nosferatu (1922) - F.W. Murnau
• The Circus (1928) - Charlie Chaplin
• Martinique Disaster (1902) - Ferdinand Zecca
• Mt. Pelee Smoking Before Eruption (St. Pierre, Martinique) [1902] - J. Blair Smith and Edwin S. Porter
• Mt. Pelee in Eruption and Destruction of St. Pierre (Martinique) [1902] - J. Blair Smith and Edwin S. Porter
• Burning of St. Pierre (Martinique) [1902] - J. Blair Smith and Edwin S. Porter
• The Dreyfus Affair (1899) - Georges Méliès
• Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat (1896) - Auguste and Louis Lumière
• Cinema's First Nasty Women