Matinees On Main Street: A Movie History Podcast

After failing the test for his Doctor's license, Etienne Jules Marey decides to start studying the motion of animals instead.  While doing so, he develops a camera that can take multiple pictures on a glass slide, at a fast rate.  

After a brief introduction about the movies and our culture, the early ideas that lead to photography pass from the ancient Greeks to the scientists of the Enlightenment.  From there, we watch as three men, Nicephore Niepce, Louis Daguerre, and Henry Talbot experiment with light sensitive chemicals as they struggle to find a way to capture images of the real world using those chemicals.  

This is a short introduction to Matinees On Main Street, as I explain who I am, how I want to explain this story, as well as the nuts and bolts of the podcast.