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Today's special episode is a conversation I had with my son Joshua about the 1926 film The General, written by, directed by, and starring Buster Keaton. Joshua recommended this film to me after he saw it in a Film Studies class in school and when I realized I'd never seen the entire thing, we decided to make a podcast episode about it.

Take a listen to hear us discuss .

You can watch The General on YouTube and a huge thank you to Joshua for helping me edit many podcast episodes over the last few years.

Other films mentioned in this episode include:

• The Circus directed by Charlie Chaplin
• "A Horse in Motion" directed by Eadweard J. Muybridge
• "A Trip to the Moon" directed by Georges Méliès
• "The Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat Station" by the Lumière Brothers
• Star Wars directed by George Lucas
• Five Nights at Freddy's directed by Emma Tammi
• Jaws directed by Steven Spielberg
• The Wizard of Oz directed by Victor Fleming
• Gone With the Wind directed by Victor Fleming
• Casablanca directed by Michael Curtiz
• Snow White and the Severn Dwarfs directed by David Hand

Other referenced topics:

• The Great Locomotive Chase: A History of the Andrews Railroad Raid Into Georgia by William Pittenger
• Variety review
• New York Times review
• New York Herald Tribune review
• Orson Wells quote on the Independent Cinema Office

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