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By Michael Gebert
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Episodes: 125
Dec 14, 2023
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For fans of classic movies, talking with authors, archivists, filmmakers, musicians and others doing work with our film heritage. From NitrateVille.com, the classic film discussion site.
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Ep. 125: Restoring Beau Geste • 2025 Pordenone Festival Report • Six Degrees of Charlie Chaplin
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Oct 31, 2025 |
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124: Steven C. Smith on Hitchcock and Herrmann • Stephen Rebello on Strangers On a Train
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Sep 30, 2025 |
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Ep. 123: Cleveland Silent Film Festival • Lukas Foerster on Weimar Comedies • A Gish Sisters Book
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Sep 03, 2025 |
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122: Richard Koszarski and Dennis Doros on Made in New Jersey • Lon Davis on Edward Everett Horton
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Aug 04, 2025 |
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121: Rob Byrne on San Francisco Film Preserve • Lisa Stein Haven on Early Buster Keaton
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Jul 02, 2025 |
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120: Eddie Muller and the Dames of Noir • Ben Model on The Silent Film Universe
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Jun 02, 2025 |
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119: First Women of Hollywood • The Visionary June Mathis
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May 01, 2025 |
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118: Nasty Women Return! • Rhea Combs on Oscar Micheaux • Katie Gee Salisbury on Anna May Wong
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Mar 03, 2025 |
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117: Steve Massa on Roscoe Arbuckle • Noah Isenberg on Edgar Ulmer
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Feb 01, 2025 |
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116: Dave Kehr on To Save and Project • Copenhagen Silent Film Festival • Moguls
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Dec 31, 2024 |
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115: Top Ten in Physical Media 2024 • South West Silents & Film Noir UK • Burt Kearns on Shemp!
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Dec 02, 2024 |
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114: Silents Synced • Pordenone Festival Report 2024 • Thomas Walsh on Art Director Ben Carré
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Oct 29, 2024 |
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113: John Ford and the Cavalry • Francis Ford • The Brothers of the Bs
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Sep 17, 2024 |
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112: Seeing Napoleon • Rouben Mamoulian • Helen Morgan
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Aug 03, 2024 |
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111: Dave Glass on Monty Banks • Jeffrey L. Carrier on Patsy Ruth Miller
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Jun 03, 2024 |
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110: Vitagraph Comedies • Film Is Dead. Long Live Film! • Lon Davis Meets The Old Stars
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May 01, 2024 |
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109: Billy! Brackett and Wilder • Double Indemnity and the Rise of Noir
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Apr 02, 2024 |
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108: Bryony Dixon on Victorian Film • Death by Laughter • Tod Slaughter
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Mar 04, 2024 |
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107: Dan Streible on Orphan Films • Mike Mashon on the Changing Preservation Scene
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Feb 01, 2024 |
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106: Donald Bogle on Lena Horne • Restoring William S. Hart • Pamela Hutchinson on The Red Shoes
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Jan 04, 2024 |
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105: Top Ten in Physical Media 2023, with Bruce Calvert • Foster Hirsch on Movies in the 50s
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Dec 06, 2023 |
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104: Pordenone 2023 Festival Report • The "Only" Woman Animator • Scott Eyman on Chaplin vs. America
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Nov 03, 2023 |
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103: Northern Silents • Lisa Stein Haven on Chaplin at First National • Sarah Royal on Lucy
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Oct 02, 2023 |
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102: Rob Byrne on Foolish Wives • Eddie Muller on Kid and Cocktail Noir • Becoming Nick and Nora
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Sep 05, 2023 |
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101: Serge Bromberg on Laurel & Hardy Year One • Josh Mills on Ernie in Kovacsland
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Aug 03, 2023 |
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100: 100th Episode! with Michael Gebert and Ben Model • Susan Delson on Soundies
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Jul 05, 2023 |
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99: The Warner Bros. Episode, with Mark A. Vieira and Chris Yogerst
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Jun 05, 2023 |
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98: Robert Harris and James Mockoski on The Johnstown Flood • The Stoogeum's Gary Lassin
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May 02, 2023 |
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97: LOC Festival of Film & Sound • Two New Silent Film Kickstarters • William M. Drew on Pearl White
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Apr 04, 2023 |
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96: Academics and Vintage Film: Domitor • The Media Ecology Project • Victor Moore in Silent Comedy
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Mar 03, 2023 |
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95: Slapstick Festival in Bristol • A Norwegian Silent Comedian • John Stangeland on Aline MacMahon
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Feb 06, 2023 |
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94: The Lives of Beau Geste • The King of the Kongo • A Studio in Occupied France
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Jan 13, 2023 |
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93: Top Ten in Physical Media 2022 • Steve Massa with More Lame Brains and Lunatics
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Dec 09, 2022 |
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92: Margaret Dumont • Hispanics: Viva Hollywood! • Lawrence Tierney
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Nov 14, 2022 |
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91: Pordenone 2022 Festival Report • The Unknown Unknown • Lara Gabrielle on Marion Davies
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Oct 19, 2022 |
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90: How Elinor Glyn Changed Sex • How Hollywood Changed Going to the Movies
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Sep 21, 2022 |
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89: Cinema's First Nasty Women
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Aug 19, 2022 |
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88: Film Preservation with Richard Simonton • Jon Mirsalis on Rare Lon Chaney
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Jul 27, 2022 |
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87: Jeffrey Spivak on Busby Berkeley • Jack Theakston on New Abbott & Costello and 3-D Restorations
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Jul 05, 2022 |
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86: Scott McGee on Hollywood's Greatest Stunts • Ed Lorusso on a Wallace Reid DVD Kickstarter
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Jun 09, 2022 |
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85: TCM Film Festival Returns, with Nora Fiore • Movies as Art: Poster Collector Dwight Cleveland
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May 12, 2022 |
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84: Columbus Moving Picture Show • Comique Magazine • Julian David Stone, Author of "It's Alive!"
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Apr 21, 2022 |
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83: Ben Model on Raymond Griffith via Kickstarter • Eric Hoyt on Hollywood Trade Papers
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Mar 25, 2022 |
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82: Hippodrome Silent Film Festival in Scotland • David Crump on Fred Karno
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Feb 25, 2022 |
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81: Dana Stevens on Buster Keaton's Century • Farrah Nehme on Dames at MoMA • Found Emulsion
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Jan 28, 2022 |
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80: The Real Charlie Chaplin • Serge Bromberg on Julien Duvivier
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Jan 06, 2022 |
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79: Physical Media Top Ten of 2021 • Jaime Weinman on Looney Tunes
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Dec 06, 2021 |
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78: Scott Eyman on 20th Century Fox and Darryl F. Zanuck • Thomas Reeder on Century Comedies
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Nov 16, 2021 |
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77: 2021 Pordenone Festival Report • Rediscovering Ellen Richter • Media History Digital Library
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Oct 27, 2021 |
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76: Vim Kickstarter • Becoming Carole Lombard • The Magnificent Jane Russell
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Sep 27, 2021 |
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75: Eddie Muller on Film Noir's Dark City • Silent Movie Day is September 29
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Sep 01, 2021 |
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74: Edward Everett Horton Comedies • Andrew Erish on Vitagraph • Stephen Horne on Silent Sirens
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Aug 11, 2021 |
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73: Il Cinema Ritrovato Festival in Bologna, and Online • Kit Parker's 50 Years in Film
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Jul 16, 2021 |
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72: Silent Film Showings Are Back! • Lisa Stein Haven on Max Linder
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Jun 23, 2021 |
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71: Preserving Paramount with Andrea Kalas • Kat Ellinger on Mae West
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May 27, 2021 |
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70: Searching for Shoulder Arms • Lois Weber's Sensation Seekers • Billy Wilder, Newspaperman
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May 04, 2021 |
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69: Tyrone Power • Mary Astor • The Classic Film Collective
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Apr 07, 2021 |
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68: A Year of The Silent Comedy Watch Party • William Wellman Jr. on His Father Wild Bill
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Mar 12, 2021 |
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67: Legendary Jungle Hoax Film Ingagi • Stars Under the Nazis
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Feb 23, 2021 |
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66: The Woman Behind MGM's Throne • Film Noir Fashion
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Jan 27, 2021 |
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65: Bruce Goldstein on The Naked City • Tommy Jose Stathes • Arnold Leibovit on George Pal
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Jan 07, 2021 |
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64: Physical Media Top Ten of 2020 • Philippe Garnier on Scoundrels, Spitballers and Screenwriters
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Dec 03, 2020 |
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63: Allen Lewis Rickman on Yiddish Cinema • Ned Thanhouser on the Thanhouser Studio
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Nov 12, 2020 |
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62: Scott Eyman on Cary Grant • Fright Favorites Author David J. Skal
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Oct 19, 2020 |
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61: Hollywood Hates Hitler! • Music For a City Without Jews • Hard Luck Ladies
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Sep 25, 2020 |
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60: Virtual Pordenone • Finding a Lost Film • Dennis James' Fall Tour
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Sep 07, 2020 |
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59: Reginald Denny and Anthony Slide
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Aug 10, 2020 |
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58: A Fine Mess of Laurel & Hardy, With Randy Skretvedt
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Jul 13, 2020 |
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57: Author Steven C. Smith on Max Steiner • Larry Edmunds Bookshop • Niles Film Museum
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Jun 22, 2020 |
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56: Hitchcock's Phantom Lady • 1930s Silent Sci-Fi Home Movie • Summer Reading Challenge
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Jun 01, 2020 |
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55: Restoring Mystery of the Wax Museum • William Beaudine, Auteur
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May 08, 2020 |
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54: Prof. Jeanine Basinger on The Movie Musical!
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Apr 17, 2020 |
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53: Donna Rifkind on Salka Viertel • Ben Model on Accompanying Silents Online
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Mar 27, 2020 |
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52: Bret Wood on the Golden Age of Exploitation Pictures • Michael Atkinson on Karel Zeman
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Mar 04, 2020 |
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51: Author Sydney Ladensohn Stern on The Brothers Mankiewicz • Grave Markers for Forgotten Stars
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Feb 07, 2020 |
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50: 2019 Memoriam for Vintage Film People • Steve Massa on Roscoe Arbuckle, Filmmaker
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Jan 14, 2020 |
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49: Africa Screams Kickstarter • Max Steiner Westerns • The Costellos, Film's First Family
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Dec 13, 2019 |
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48: Physical Media Top Ten of 2019, With Bruce Calvert • The Music Box House Organist Dennis Scott
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Nov 25, 2019 |
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47: MoMA Curator Anne Morra on Iris Barry • Lokke Heiss on Pordenone 2019
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Nov 07, 2019 |
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46: J.B. Kaufman on Fun and Fancy Free • Donna Hill on Valentino • David Pierce on Uncle Tom's Cabin
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Oct 21, 2019 |
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45: Ken Winokur of The Alloy Orchestra • 2019 Stummfilmtage Bonn
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Sep 30, 2019 |
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44: Kino Lorber Episode, with Bret Wood and Matt Barry • Kat Ellinger on Peter Pan
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Sep 03, 2019 |
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43: Cinerama's Adventures, With Dave Strohmaier
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Jul 26, 2019 |
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42: Mike Kaplan on Lillian Gish and the BGSU Controversy • Tracey Goessel on The Biograph Project
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Jul 08, 2019 |
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41: John Soister on Paul Leni • Josh Mills on Ernie Kovacs • Douglas MacLean Kickstarter
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Jun 11, 2019 |
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40: Pre-Code Movies with Mark A. Vieira, author of Forbidden Hollywood
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May 20, 2019 |
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39: 2019 TCM Film Festival • Ben Hecht: Fighting Words, Moving Pictures
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Apr 29, 2019 |
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38: San Francisco Silent Film Festival • Victoria Riskin on Fay Wray and Robert Riskin
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Apr 05, 2019 |
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37: Restoring in 4K: Becky Sharp and Detour
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Mar 15, 2019 |
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36: Remembering Ron Hutchinson • John Bengtson on Where Silent Comedy Was Shot
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Feb 22, 2019 |
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35: Serge Bromberg on Méliès and More
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Feb 01, 2019 |
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34: The Ancient Law, with musicians Donald Sosin and Alicia Svigals
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Jan 07, 2019 |
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33: Author Gwenda Young on Forgotten Master Clarence Brown
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Dec 07, 2018 |
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32: Pioneering Women Filmmakers, with Shelley Stamp • George Willeman of LOC
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Nov 16, 2018 |
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31: David J. Skal on Monster Shows • Pordenone 2018
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Oct 26, 2018 |
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30: Alice Guy Blaché • Milestone Films: Strange Victory & I Am Cuba
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Oct 04, 2018 |
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29: Ed Lorusso on Kickstarting The Cossack Whip • Rodney Sauer on Scoring Old Ironsides
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Sep 15, 2018 |
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28: Movies of the Teens • Buster Keaton Convention • 60s Drive-In Stars
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Aug 23, 2018 |
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27: Hitler's Hollywood, with filmmaker Rüdiger Suchsland
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Aug 03, 2018 |
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26: Farran Smith Nehme on Dietrich & Other Screen Sirens • Rescuing Cinerama
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Jul 13, 2018 |
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25: Richard Barrios on the 50 Best Musicals • Scott Eyman on Hank and Jim
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Jun 21, 2018 |
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24: Cinevent's 50th, with Leonard Maltin, Biffle & Shooster And a Cast of Dozens
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May 31, 2018 |
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23: Dave Kehr on Fox Precodes • TCM Film Festival with Nitrate Diva and Ben Model
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May 07, 2018 |
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22: Douglas Fairbanks, with biographer Tracey Goessel
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Apr 23, 2018 |
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21: King of Jazz, with James Layton and David Pierce
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Apr 09, 2018 |
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20: Toronto Silent Film Festival | The Silent Treatment | Silent W.C. Fields
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Mar 16, 2018 |
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19: German Expressionism | Pamela Hutchinson on Pandora's Box • Henry Nicolella on Frank Wisbar
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Feb 16, 2018 |
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18: How Theaters Made the Movies, with William Paul • Kansas Silent Film Festival
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Jan 24, 2018 |
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17: Jon Mirsalis on Lon Chaney and Finding "The Battle of the Century"
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Jan 04, 2018 |
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16: Alan K. Rode on Michael Curtiz
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Dec 11, 2017 |
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15: William Fox's Rise and Fall, with Vanda Krefft
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Nov 21, 2017 |
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14: Pordenone 2017 • Henry "Pathe" Lehrman • Before the Marx Brothers
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Nov 03, 2017 |
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13: Jerry Beck on Porky Pig and Captain Marvel • "Harold and Lillian"
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Oct 13, 2017 |
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12: Saving Colleen Moore: Joe Yranski • Eric Grayson
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Sep 22, 2017 |
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11: 3-D! With Bob Furmanek and Jack Theakston
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Aug 31, 2017 |
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10: Cinecon • Beggars of Life, with author Thomas Gladysz
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Aug 12, 2017 |
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9: Ben Model, Crowdfunding & When Knighthood Was in Flower
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Jul 20, 2017 |
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8: Steve Massa, author of Slapstick Divas • Capitolfest
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Jul 05, 2017 |
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7: Dawson City: Frozen Time • A Thousand Cuts
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Jun 16, 2017 |
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6: 70mm Festival • Classic Serial Daredevils of the Red Circle
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Jun 08, 2017 |
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5: J.B. Kaufman on Pinocchio
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May 21, 2017 |
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4: The Festival Episode: Mostly Lost • Cinevent
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May 02, 2017 |
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3: TCM Classic Film Festival • Lois Weber
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Apr 17, 2017 |
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2: The Nitrate Picture Show • Behind the Door (1919)
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Apr 03, 2017 |
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1: John McElwee, author of The Art of Selling Movies
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Mar 22, 2017 |