Matinees On Main Street: A Movie History Podcast

Matinees On Main Street: A Movie History Podcast

By Patricia VodickTV & FilmArtsHistory
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Matinees On Main Street: A Movie History Podcast episodes

  • Episode 22: Edison Introduces The Vitascope
    With projectors being introduced to Americans in vaudeville houses, the Edison Company brings out it's own projector, known as the Vitascope. This was the machine based on the projector devised by Thomas Armat and Charles Francis Jenkins.
    32 min
  • Episode 21: Vaudeville
    For several years, the primary place to watch movies was in vaudeville houses. This episode give you a brief history of live public entertainment in America in the 1800s and how it led to vaudeville. Vaudeville's sudden rise, it popularity, its exhibition scheduling, and it moral influence all had an effect on the movies at its birth.
    33 min
  • Episode 19: The First Public Movie Exhibition
    Merry Christmas. A few days after the Christmas of 1895, the Lumieres showed a series of film shorts in a small basement salon in downtown Paris. A number of people who had seen Lumiere films at private showings attended this post Christmas exhibition, as well as others. around thirty or so people attended this first showing, but the size of the crowds were grow a lot as the Lumieres continued to exhibit their films.
    32 min
  • Episode 18: The Original Star: Annabelle Moore
    The star performer of the first movie clip to be wildly popular was Annabelle Moore Whitford, a dancer who became popular in Chicago at the time of the city's Columbian Exposition and World's Fair. Her dances, known as the Butterfly Dance, and the Serpentine Dance, were influenced by another Chicagoan, Loie Fuller, who turned skirt dancing into an artform, and launched the Modern Dance movement. This is the wild story of both of them.
    44 min
  • Episode 16: The Poisonous Partnership

    Thomas Armat and Charles Jenkins, two men from the Washington DC area, develop America's first movie projector.  This machine will be very important in film history, as its the first projection machine that Thomas Edison would market, but it is the damaged relationship between the two men that makes this an intriguing story.  

    34 min
  • Episode 15: Laurie Dickson's Problems

    William Laurie Dickson worked with Thomas Edison to build the kinetoscope.  Unfortunately resentment, as well as pressure from others to help build machines for them is putting him in a very difficult position.  What's he going to do?

    43 min
  • Episode 14: The Early Kinetoscope Films

    Episode 14 looks at some of the stars of the first kinetoscope films.  These people were  primarily vaudeville stars, including those who had become friends of Edison developer William Kennedy Laurie Dickson.  These people include the bodybuilder Samson, Little Miss Sure Shot, Annie Oakie, and the Spanish dancer Carmencita.  

    23 min
  • Episode 13: Kinetoscopes Appear in Europe

    Two groups of men, one of them being Greek Americans, and the other being the investment group of Maguire and Baucus, both introduce the kinetoscope to Europe.  There, they will inspire Robert Paul and Birt Acres in London, the Lumiere brothers in France, and possibly Max Skladanowsky in Berlin.  

    40 min

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A history of the movies from the beginning. It's about how it was created, the people who made it, the ideas that transformed it, the people who created them, the places that showed them, and the…