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, and more importantly, my projectionist nightmare ---

The 1897 Charity Bazaar Fire

Bonfire of Destiny trailer (2019)

--- Georges Méliès, whomst everyone desperately desires to imitate ---

The Haunted Castle

The Last Cartridges

(The Painting, Les Dernières Cartouches)

Surrender of Tournavos

Between Calais and Dover

Sea Combat in Greece

On the Roofs

The Bewitched Inn

--- Voyeuristic Tendencies ---

After the Ball

Pillow Fight / Seminary Girls

Through the Keyhole, (actually from 1901) 

--- George Albert Smith, Britain’s answer to Méliès ---

The X Ray Fiend

Old Man Drinking a Glass of Beer

Miller and the Sweep

--- Alice Guy-Blaché’s earliest surviving films ---

"Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché" (2019)

At the Hypnotist’s

On the Roofs

Bathing in a Stream

The Fisherman at the Stream

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