The Tinsel Factory: A Film History Podcast

Synopsis:

This week on The Tinsel Factory, A Brief History of Animated Feature films - A Supplemental Episode to the First two episodes of this podcasts. We’re doing a speed run from ancient cave paintings to 3D animated films.

Also this week, a brief discussion on this years Academy Awards.

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Sources:

http://nautil.us/issue/11/light/early-humans-made-animated-art

The World History of Animation by Stephen Cavalier

Synopsis:

This week on the Tinsel Factory, The Road to Oscar - everything the every average Joe or Jane might like to know about how to get from making a movie to the Academy Awards stage - Oscar in hand.

On two sentence movie reviews I saw in a movie theatre - The Oscar Best Shorts Nominees and The Hunholy.

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Sources

https://web.archive.org/web/20150321031529/http://www.oscars.org/sites/default/files/87aa_rules.pdf

https://www.vox.com/culture/2019/2/21/18229512/oscar-campaigns-for-your-consideration-events-narratives-weinstein

Eligible 2020 Films: https://www.oscars.org/sites/oscars/files/93rd_oscars_reminder_list.pdf

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/an-oscars-night-diary

https://variety.com/2016/film/markets-festivals/susan-sarandon-oscars-1201775223/

https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/news-trends/article/3050267/what-does-winning-oscar-mean-actors-career-and-what

This week on the Tinsel Factory, we’re covering the mysterious death of Thomas Ince, was the movie producer murdered, or was something more nefarious afoot?

Also this week, Katelyn went to a movie theatre for the first time in 1 year and eleven days (yes she counted). What is a movie going experience like in the COVID times? All of this on this week's The Tinsel Factory!

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Sources:

https://www.newenglandhistoricalsociety.com/mysterious-death-newport-movie-mogul-thomas-ince/

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/films/2018/02/27/unsolved-mysterious-hollywood-deaths/thomas-h-ince/

This week on The Tinsel Factory, we cover the life and murder of Sal Mineo, a talented actor who’s life was cut tragically short in a West Hollywood alley at the age of 37.

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Sources

https://web.archive.org/web/20080528175531/http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/notorious_murders/celebrity/sal_mineo/5.html

https://www.biography.com/actor/sal-mineo

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/features/investigation-murder-sal-mineo-1169880

Sal Mineo: A Biography by Michael Michaud

This week on the Tinsel Factory we kick off a month of murders that rocked Hollywood to its core. This week we cover the Tate/LaBianca murders and the effect they had on a once care free Tinseltown.

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Sources:

Helter Skelter by Victor Bugliosi

Truth and Lies: The Family Manson

https://www.vox.com/culture/2019/8/8/20707915/joan-didion-sharon-tate-manson-white-album

https://www.wmagazine.com/story/joan-didion-manson-trials-dress/

https://www.independent.ie/entertainment/movies/how-the-manson-murders-killed-off-old-hollywood-38029485.html

https://themansonfamily-mtts.medium.com/the-teen-who-escaped-helter-skelter-4598a7382d3d