The reason my voice sounds just a little off is because I have been pretty sick for more than a week now. This is far and away the best I have sounded in a while though, so I went into the makeshift recoding booth and gave you my best! This week's show...

Just a quick announcement about a technical issue with Episode 13, "Edwin S. Porter and the Revolution of the Shot." Its all fixed now, so you can enjoy Porter and the Great Train Robbery without any strange goings on in the show. I would actually...

It’s a big one again this week! We complete our second and Gil episode focused on filmmaker Edwin S. Porter, and discuss how his movies relate to film history. This includes technical innovations, genre development and early examples of voyeurism in...

Edwin S. Porter and some of his early films and achievements are highlighted here, as well as some achievements that he did not... well, achieve.  There are a couple of references that didn't fit into the flow of the show that I would like to put...

It's the second part of episode 11, in which we cover Alice Guy's movies. Movies, after all, are just as much a part of film history as the people who made them (more actually). In this episode, we discuss:Faust et Méphistophélès (1903)A Story Well Spun...

A longer episode this week, and we aren't even done yet! In this exiting episode, we cover the early career of Leon Gaumont and his first star director Alice Guy, the first female filmmaker. It was worth the wait, and I will see you next week!-Jake

:This week we cover one of the amazing forgotten pioneers of comedy film: Max Linder. All of the movie clips you hear are from Maude Linder's 1983 documentary The Man in the Silk Hat. You can email me at [email protected], or visit the...

We cover the life and accomplishments of Charles Pathé! This is actually the first in a series of at least two episodes, as I hope to upload one about Leon Gaumont and Alice Guy within two weeks. Thank you all for staying with me through my December...

Its a big episode this time, and it took me a long time to write. But here it is! As I said at the end of the episode, a huge thanks to Stephen Herbert and Luke McKernan, who's work has proved to be the single most referenced resource I have used in...

In the most dramatic and magical episode of the show so far, we cover the life and achievements of cinemas first great magician, Georges Méliès. The only movie clip is from the 2011 film Hugo, which touches on subjects of film history and Méliès...

This week we look at some some of the "firsts" in film history as they occurred in the Lumiere's early projections. We also describe a few advancements in film technology, including the Latham Loop, and the Geneva Drive. I have had to take the website...

This episode we cover an exciting, but ultimately unfruitful, film made in the Black Maria, and voyage to Europe to meet the Lumiere family, and their incredible contributions to cinema.I told you the clips would start becoming useful just as soon as I...

Let's all go to the movies! Sorry I am two days late. Today we discuss the kinetograph, and the movies made on it, including Fred Ott's Sneeze, Comic Boxing, Serpentine Dance, and more. If you want to contact me, my email is...

A couple of details about the future of the show’s schedule and ambitions. The show will be biweekly, and I would like to introduce a social element into it. I believe that learning like film is inherently collaborative, and that movies are often most...

Kodak, Edison and Dixon are introduced, as are their first roles in the story of film history. Next week we cover movies they made.I use movie clips as transitions in this show. Once we reach sound film, all the clips will be very pertinent, but for now...

Cinema was not born of void. Earlier inventions, including, but not limited too, the magic lantern, diorama theater, the photograph and vaudeville contributed to the what went on in front of the camera in the earliest days of film history. Visit the...

The foundations of cinema from cave paintings to the invention of the chronophotographic gun. Visit the show's website Audio clips and transitions from Don Juan (1926), The Jazz Singer (1927), Casablanca (1942), All About Eve (1950), The Maltese Falcon...