The Tinsel Factory: A Film History Podcast

This week on The Tinsel Factory, the story of what happens when 330 animators demand the respect of their employer, who use so happened to be one of the most powerful studio heads of all time.

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Class Struggle in Hollywood: 1930-1950 By Gerald Horne

Working In Hollywood by Ronny Regev

https://cartoonresearch.com/index.php/in-his-own-words-herb-sorrell-and-the-1941-disney-strike/

The Disney Revolt by Jake S. Friedman

This week on The Tinsel Factory, we look into Hollywood unions, as well as the reasons for the current WGA strike.

Movie Reviews: Evil Dead Rise, The Pope's Exorcist, Guardians of the Galaxy vol. 3

Sources:

https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2014/02/secret-oscar-history

Class Struggle in Hollywood: 1930-1950 By Gerald Horne

Working In Hollywood by Ronny Regev

https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2011/11/what-reagan-did-for-hollywood/248391/

https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2011/11/what-reagan-did-for-hollywood/248391/

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1987-07-15-mn-2479-story.html

https://archive.org/details/motionpictureher122unse/page/62/mode/2up

https://www.sagaftra.org/about/our-history/1930s 

This week on The Tinsel Factory, the story of the Runaways and the film inspired by their story. 

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Edgeplay: A Film about the Runaways (2004)

Breaks:

Runaways trailer

This week on The Tinsel Factory, we seperate fact from fiction when it comes to the Sex Pistols, and the movie based on their time as a band, Sid and Nancy.

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Sources:

https://thespool.net/anniversaries/sid-nancy-35th-anniversary/

https://www.top10films.co.uk/40923-sid-nancy-inaccurate-not-insincere/

https://www.theguardian.com/film/filmblog/2013/mar/06/sid-nancy-reel-history-alex-cox

This week on The Tinsel Factory, separating fact from fiction from Queen and the film Bohemian Rhapsody.

Movie Reviews: Scream VI and Mafia Mamma

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Sources:

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/freddie-mercury-queen-biopic-bohemian-rhapsody-movie-fact-check-746195/ 

Somebody to Love: The Life and Legacy of Freddie Mercury by Matt Richards & Mark Langthorne 

https://www.indiewire.com/2018/11/bohemian-rhapsody-called-out-changing-history-freddie-mercury-aids-1202018135/

Break 1: youtube.com/watch?v=PwWpauQQkh8&list=PLmc5loCgahT3jERWl5Bpo4AjY8604NN6w&index=15

Break 2: youtube.com/watch?v=mP0VHJYFOAU&t=34s 

This week on The Tinsel Factory, separating fact and fiction between the band The Doors, and the movie that was inspired by their lives.

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Sources:

https://thedoors.com/the-band

When You’re Strange. 2010 d. Tom DiCillo

Song: youtube.com/results?search_query=hippie+royalty+free+music

Trailer: The Doors 2019 remastered trailer

This week on The Tinsel Factory, the story behind the development of Steven Spielberg's Night Skies and ET 2.

Movie Reviews: Paint & Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves 

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ET 2 Treatment: https://genius.com/Steven-spielberg-et-ii-nocturnal-fears-annotated 

https://www.thebeardedtrio.com/2012/06/read-leaked-et-sequel-script-here-et-ii.html

http://www.warpedfactor.com/2020/08/abandoned-sequels-close-encounters-of.html

youtube.com/watch?v=LQzgIkqt5u4

The Films of Steven Spielberg (1987) by Sinyard, Neil

Music: youtube.com/watch?v=T0CeNCfWIH0&list=PLfP6i5T0-DkLrHqanmCrOs28G-WDHgZzN&index=1 

This week on The Tinsel Factory, the failed production of Dune directed by Alejandro Jodorowsky.

Movie Reviews: Creed III

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Sources:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/01/13/opinion/jodorowsky-dune-ai-tron.html

https://www.cbr.com/jodorowsky-dune-book-3-million-auction/

https://www.christies.com/lot/lot-6345488

youtube.com/watch?v=2-nntkHOkGw&t=29s

Music: youtube.com/watch?v=TSn13u4HDkE White Bat Audio

This week on The Tinsel Factory, Orson Welles’s Failed attempt to produce an adaptation of Heart of Darkness.

Movie Reviews: Avatar: Way of Water

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Sources:

https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/tv-radio/2015/10/rumble-jungle-how-heart-darkness-brought-orson-welles-airwaves

https://pleasekillme.com/orson-welles-heart-of-darkness/

https://www.openculture.com/2014/08/orson-welles-adapts-heart-of-darkness.html

https://steemit.com/art/@herverisson/the-greatest-movies-never-made-part-5-orson-welles-heart-of-darkness

https://www.scribd.com/document/200623651/Heart-of-Darkness-by-Orson-Welles#

Heart of Darkness. 1991. Dir. Eleanor Coppola

https://brightlightsfilm.com/at-sea-in-port-up-the-river-orson-welless-conrad-adaptations/#.ZATMPy-B2Ld

https://oneroomwithaview.com/2015/01/29/best-films-never-made-23-orson-welles-heart-darkness/

https://steemit.com/art/@herverisson/the-greatest-movies-never-made-part-5-orson-welles-heart-of-darkness

youtube.com/watch?v=pFYzVsrrPjE

https://www.orsonwelles.org/2012/08/other-unfinished-projects.html

https://www.wellesnet.com/orson-welles-unfilmed-script-for-joseph-conrads-heart-of-darkness/

https://heartofdarknessarchive.org/pages/heart-of-darkness/

This week on The Tinsel Factory, the  story of the attempted production of the Superman film that never was - Superman Lives.

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https://collider.com/superman-nicolas-cage-tim-burton-movie-history-explained/

https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-features/nicolas-cage-unbeareble-weight-of-massive-talent-interview-1335766/

The Death of Superman Lives: What Happened? 2015. Dir. Jon Schnapp

Song: Composed by Adam Monroe/Adam Kopcinski.

http://www.adammonroemusic.com