One Week, One Year

5 weeks, 5 years! And now it's nearing the turn of the century! People are starting to use edits to tell stories!!! What??

Find the full playlist of films discussed here on youtube

And find all of our social medias here!

--- Méliès and His Love of Demons ---

Pillar of Fire

The Devil in a Convent

The Mysterious Knight

The Dreyfus Affair

Philosophy Tube's Antisemitism video, which has an in-detail rundown of the Dreyfus Affair

Cinderella

--- The George Albert Smith cinematic advancement and a Filthy Stealer ---

The Kiss in the Tunnel

Bamforth Kiss in the Tunnel

The Biter Bit

--- The Lumière Boys Are Branching Out ---

Lancement du “Varese” à Livourne

Un Tournoi

Parade of Flowered Automobiles

Opium Smoking

Équilibre et moulinet

The Priest and the Mannequins

--- Alice Guy Blache May Party Too Hard ---

Wonderful Absinthe

At the Club

--- Edison is Mean to Animals ---

Trick Bears

Fun in Camp

Admiral Dewey Arriving at Gibralter

--- Potpourri and Our First Negative Reviews ---

The Jeffrey Sharkey Fight (lost)

King John

Momijigari

Upside Down, or The Human Flies

Ooh a long-un. But for good reason because the innovation this year is stunning! Cutting enters the scene in a big way and we begin to see the shape of real storytelling forming. Well that part does get a little Jesus-ey but hey, depending on how you see it, it's a 10 minute film telling a story with multiple scenes! Whaaaa! You'll just have to listen and see.

Check out all our socials at linktr.ee/1w1y and see the playlist of all films discussed here.

--- Ship is getting real ---

The Launch of the HMS Albion

Bird's eye angle number 1

Bird's eye angle number 2

--- Some more early efforts in editing ---

Reviewing the ''Texas'' at Grant's Tomb

Return of Lifeboat

A Night to Dismember (1983)

Come Along, Do!

--- Effects extravaganza! ---

Santa Claus, George Albert Smith

The Four Troublesome Heads

 William Tell and the Clown

Divers at work on the wreck of the “Maine”

Pygmalion and Galatea

The Astronomer’s Dream (or a more contemporary soundtrack here)

Panorama from the top of a Moving Train

--- We need to be giving the Lumière boys some more credit ---

Panorama pendant l’ascension de la Tour Eiffel

Panorama pris d'un ballon captif

The Woodcutter, a Music Lover

The Life and Passion of Jesus Christ

--- Odds and ends and Cris’s Gripes ---

The Turn of the Century Blind Man

The Cavalier’s Dream

Wax House, Baby!<

Spiritualism! Piracy! Towering infernos! War! X-Rays! And the film explosion around the world! Must be 1897, where we had a LOT of movies to talk about.

We have a Youtube channel, where you can find playlists containing all the movies we talk about, plus a twitter and facebook which you can find at linktr.ee/1w1y

Playlist of the films discussed

--- A catastrophic disaster, and more importantly, my projectionist nightmare ---

The 1897 Charity Bazaar Fire

Bonfire of Destiny trailer (2019)

--- Georges Méliès, whomst everyone desperately desires to imitate ---

The Haunted Castle

The Last Cartridges

(The Painting, Les Dernières Cartouches)

Surrender of Tournavos

Between Calais and Dover

Sea Combat in Greece

On the Roofs

The Bewitched Inn

--- Voyeuristic Tendencies ---

After the Ball

Pillow Fight / Seminary Girls

Through the Keyhole, (actually from 1901) 

--- George Albert Smith, Britain’s answer to Méliès ---

The X Ray Fiend

Old Man Drinking a Glass of Beer

Miller and the Sweep

--- Alice Guy-Blaché’s earliest surviving films ---

"Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché" (2019)

At the Hypnotist’s

On the Roofs

Bathing in a Stream

The Fisherman at the Stream

-

Wow! 2 weeks! Who would have guessed! In this episode we talk about cinema's second year, including one of the most iconic films of all time, Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat Station. This year the Lumieres develop their techniques and send cameras to capture actualities around the world, plus we see the rise of Georges Méliès: the first person to see the true potential of film as a storytelling art form and lover of spooky skeletons.

Sorry about the audio quality in this one, we had a big of a technical kerfuffle and had to use the backup zoom audio, but we'll be working with our spiffy condenser mics next week!

The full playlist of films discussed

Follow us on Twitter and stuff here!

--- The Iconic Arrival of a Train and its Terrifying Modern Reflections ---

Arrival of a Train

Arrival of a Train 4k

Gross babies

--- The Lumières Advance in Technique ---

Lancement d'un navire 

Quai de l'Archevêché, Lyon

Duel au pistolet

Panorama of the Grand Canal, Venice

Demolition of a wall

--- Enter Georges Melies ---

Card Party

The Vanishing Lady

The House of the Devil

--- Racial Imagery ---

A Nightmare

A Morning Bath

Ignatiy Vishnevetsky’s review

--- The First Horny Films ---

The Kiss

What a a mutoscope looks like

Le Coucher de la Mariée

--- Alice Guy-Blance, the First Female Director ---

The Cabbage Fairy, which is actually lost

In our inaugural episode, we begin our journey into film history at where it (debatably) starts, 1895! The year the Lumiere Brothers had the first public exhibition of films for an audience.

You can check out the youtube playlist of the films discussed this week here

And you can see all of our social medias and whatnot here

--- The Beginnings of Film ---

Sallie Gardner at a Gallop

Eadweard Muybridge, Zoopraxographer (1975)

Dickson Experimental Sound Film

--- The Cinematographe Lumiere Presentation ---

Workers Leaving the Lumiere Factory

Trick Riding

Fishing for Goldfish

The Photographical Congress Arrives in Lyon

The Blacksmiths

The Sprinkler Sprinkled

Baby's Meal

Jumping the Blanket

Cordeliers' Square in Lyon

The Sea

--- More experiments and advances ---

Annabelle Serpentine Dance

The Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots

The Mechanical Butcher