Matinees On Main Street: A Movie History Podcast

A look at the movies from the middle of the first decade of the Twentieth Century, from Parsifal to The Moon Lover to The Little Girl Who Didn't Believe In Santa Claus.

New York was not the only city to develop a film industry at the beginning ofthe twentieth century. Chicago also developed a strong film industry that not only made films, it distributed them. Was Chicago going to be the new leader in film making?

The murder of architect Stanford White by millionaire Harry Thaw was a scandal that made national news. And, in the end, the movies attemptedto cash in on the crime's notoriety.

The very early history of Australian cinema is told through the success of the legendary movie THE STORY OF THE NED KELLY GANG. The movie's success also allowed a group of men to create an entertainment monopoly down under, a monopoly that suffocated film making for a time.

After an earthquake hit San Francisco in April of 1906, a series of short documentary movies were released that drew a lot of attention to the movies just as their were becoming a rage among the public.

While America and France were both aggressively marketing movies, England's efforts seemed rather anemic with Cecil Hepworth proving to be more ambitious than the rest.

By around 1906 or so, an invisible network of movie exhibition existed which has not been well researched up to this time. We'll try to take a look at this places if we can.

Looking at the legend of Harry DAvid's Nickelodeon theater on Pittsburgh, as it would soon be considered America's first movie house.