It’s a monster mash of early monster cinema this time! From Georges Méliès’ history as a political cartoonist and illusionist, to Willis O’Brien’s and Herbert M Dawley’s complex relationship over articulated dinosaur model patents, the formation of the movie and horror industry is Wild. Also discussed is Completely justified hatred of Thomas Edison, meat cotton candy, dinosaur hunters, trick films in context, and the inherent homoeroticism of exploration in the very early 20th century

Le Manoir Du Diable (1896) tw: ghosts, comedic violence, unreality
Le Voyage dans la Lune (1902) tw: guns, comedic violence, blood
Le Monstre (1903) tw: unreality, corpses
Frankenstein (1910) tw: Implied Gore
The Ghost of Slumber Mountain (1918) tw: blood, violence, guns

Next week: Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)