Podcast Episodes
Back to Search
1907 E2 - Matt Page
Season 9 Episode 2
Film historian Matt Page has been researching film adaptations of the Bible for over 20 years. And yet only one of his picks for 1907 stems from that…
11 months, 2 weeks ago
1907 E1 - Studios, Legal Battles, Criticism, Oh My!
Season 9 Episode 1
1907, somewhat unlike the past couple years covered on this show, is chock-full of historical developments with details that are fun to plumb. But ex…
11 months, 3 weeks ago
1906 E7 - A Trip Down History Lane
Season 8 Episode 7
Maybe it’s just Tristan who is surprised by the film that topped this season’s collective list. But its inclusion at all, and its ubiquity in submitt…
11 months, 4 weeks ago
1906 E6 - Coraline Refort
Season 8 Episode 6
Most of the picks from Coraline Refort, postdoc fellow at University of Sassari, offer exciting readings through the lens of feminism. But she also e…
1 year ago
1906 E5 - Joshua Yumibe
Season 8 Episode 5
Michigan State University professor Joshua Yumibe has spent much of his research career examining color in silent film (and beyond). Having that part…
1 year ago
1906 E4 - Oliver Gaycken
Season 8 Episode 4
Oliver Gaycken, Associate Professor at the University of Maryland, College Park, has a particular interest in early cinema and popular science. That …
1 year ago
1906 E3 - Mario Slugan
Season 8 Episode 3
Mario Slugan, Senior Lecturer at Queen Mary University of London, has literally written the book on fiction in early cinema. With that background and…
1 year ago
1906 E2 - Carl Bennett
Season 8 Episode 2
Carl Bennett, publisher and editor of silentera.com, has run the crucial resource covering the first decades of film since 1999. He selects five film…
1 year, 1 month ago
1906 E1 - Firsts and Finance
Season 8 Episode 1
From changes in distribution and exhibition to formal firsts (with caveats), 1906 carries just a few pieces of oft-cited film history. But this seaso…
1 year, 1 month ago
1905 E7 - The Experiments Continue
Season 7 Episode 7
While the “nickelodeon boom” began in the United States and the global film industry was standardizing certain production elements, many of the conve…
1 year, 1 month ago