00:00 - 6:20 - Intro

06:20 - 34:14 - Within Our Gates

34:14 - 55:23 - Malcolm in the Middle

55:23 - 1:49:00 - City Hall

1:49:00 - 2:00:59 - E-mail / Montage

The reunion tour has now started proper with our first double feature. In timeline A, we discuss the landmark film from 1920 by Oscar Micheaux, Within Our Gates (06:20). we get into anachronistic scoring of silent films, writing history in lightning, and more. on a hefty edition of Malcolm in the Middle (34:14), we catch up on our pre-1920 cinema with Feuillade's Les Vampires, Griffith's A Corner in Wheat, the short films of F. Percy Smith, and Chaplin's The Immigrant. in timeline B, we discuss Frederick Wiseman's City Hall (55:23), an epic 4.5 hour portrait of how beantown operates from 2020. Shawn is the expert here so we differ to his judgement. "oh yeah, Boston".

See you next time as we wrap up leg 1 of the tour with Dr. Mabuse the Gambler & Dragged Across Concrete.

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