Matinees On Main Street: A Movie History Podcast

Siegmund Lubin, a Philadelphia optician, starts a film company and starts making early fight films.

From the beginning, the Edison Company had a grudge against the American Mutoscope and Biograph Company, and over time, the Edisons set out to destroy that company through a legal war.

After the movies settled into vaudeville houses in the big cities, traveling exhibitors took the novelty into the smaller cities and towns, and even into the coutnry side.

The first person to experiment with the idea of using moving pictures to tell stories was French filmmaker and magician Georges Méliès, and that was soon followed by Gaumont filmmaker Alice Guy.

Stories and observations about the movies at the beginning ofthe Twentieth Century.

After those years where the moving picture was a novelty, the public saw the movies as a news service. Here are some of the news events of that time and the people who filmed them.

The first important movie of the twentieth century was the championship fight film between Jim Jeffries and Tom Starkey. it was a film that finally proved you could make an exciting indoor fight film with the help of a lot of lights.

We take a look at how cinema was spreading around the world in 1900.

Through Inabata Katsutaro, Japan has a connection to the Lumieres, as he brings projected moving pictures to Japan.