The Tinsel Factory: A Film History Podcast

This week on The Tinsel Factory, the man whose lab would lead to the invention of one of the worlds first motion picture cameras. On two sentence movie reviews: Scream 

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The Current War by Adam Cline (2017)

Empires of Light by Jill Jonnes (2014)

American Experience:Thomas Edison (2015, PBS)

Thomas Edison: The Wizard of Menlo Park (1961)

This week on The Tinsel Factory, we cover the life of inventor, photographer and… murderer?! Eadweard Muybridge's experiments paved the way to cinema, and this week we’re covering his life and the experiment that changed photography forever.

On two sentence movie reviews: Nightmare Alley

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Sources:

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Eadweard-Muybridge

https://www.theartstory.org/artist/muybridge-eadweard/life-and-legacy/

https://iphf.org/inductees/eadweard-muybridge/

This week on The Tinsel Factory, we compare the life of 16th President of the United States Abraham Lincoln

On two sentence movie reviews: Spencer and House of Gucci.

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Sources:

https://www.biography.com/us-president/abraham-lincoln

https://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2013/02/mississippi-officially-abolishes-slavery-ratifies-13th-amendment

https://www.mic.com/articles/26646/lincoln-movie-review-10-ways-it-distorts-history

https://www.thedailybeast.com/whats-true-and-false-in-lincoln-movie?ref=scroll

https://slate.com/culture/2012/11/lincoln-historical-accuracy-sorting-fact-from-fiction-in-the-steven-spielberg-movie.html

https://slate.com/culture/2012/11/lincoln-historical-accuracy-sorting-fact-from-fiction-in-the-steven-spielberg-movie.html

This week The Tinsel Factory, we discern fact from fiction when comparing the life of William Wallace to his portrayal in the 1995 Academy Award Winning film, Braveheart.

On two sentence movie reviews: Eternals.

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Sources:

https://www.britannica.com/biography/William-Wallace

https://www.biography.com/military-figure/william-wallace

https://www.scotsman.com/heritage-and-retro/heritage/10-braveheart-inaccuracies-historical-blunders-mel-gibson-film-about-wars-scottish-independence-2862621

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/mel-gibson-once-threw-an-ashtray-a-wall-braveheart-budget-talks-994955/

https://screenrant.com/braveheart-behind-scenes-making-of-hidden-trivia/

https://www.ranker.com/list/historical-mistakes-errors-and-inaccuracies-in-braveheart/machk

youtube.com/watch?v=pZcfyJOOyOc

This week The Tinsel Factory, we compare the life of Cleopatra to the 1963 film based on her life. We also go over the disastrous production of 1963’s Cleopatra, and what the film got right and wrong about Ancient Egypt.

On two sentence movie reviews: Venom: Let There Be Carnage

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Sources:

https://www.biography.com/royalty/cleopatra-vii

https://egyptianstreets.com/2020/10/17/a-closer-look-at-hollywoods-historical-accuracy-in-the-1963-film-cleopatra/

Cleopatra: A Life by Stacy Schiff

https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=130976125

https://www.pbs.org/wnet/secrets/cleopatras-lost-tomb-hollywood-got-cleopatra-wrong-10-things-might-not-know-cleopatra/2912/

https://blogs.dickinson.edu/classicalstudies/2017/02/22/hollywood-and-history-cleopatra/

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2011/mar/31/elizabeth-taylor-cleopatra-reel-history

https://www.avclub.com/only-one-movie-in-history-has-been-both-an-unmitigated-1834847247

https://medium.com/exploring-history/ten-interesting-facts-about-cleopatra-most-people-dont-know-9e6e4efce94b

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/1998/03/elizabeth-taylor-199803?verso=true