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Ep. 123: Cleveland Silent Film Festival • Lukas Foerster on Weimar Comedies • A Gish Sisters Book

!23: Emily Laurance on The Cleveland Silent Film Festival and Colloquium • Lukas Foerster on Champagne and Caviar: Four Weimar Comedies • Ben Urish and Rick Geary on The Movie Girls, by Jan Wahl (87:38)

09-03
01:27:37

122: Richard Koszarski and Dennis Doros on Made in New Jersey • Lon Davis on Edward Everett Horton

122: Richard Koszarski on Made in New Jersey • Dennis Doros on New Jersey, Queen Kelly and Missing Movies • Lon Davis on Edward Everett Horton (98:24)

08-04
01:38:24

121: Rob Byrne on San Francisco Film Preserve • Lisa Stein Haven on Early Buster Keaton

Rob Byrne on San Francisco Film Preserve • Lisa Stein Haven, author of Early Buster Keaton: From the Vaudeville Stage to Comique Films, 1899-1920 (84:28)

07-02
01:24:27

120: Eddie Muller and the Dames of Noir • Ben Model on The Silent Film Universe

Eddie Muller, author of Dark City Dames • Ben Model, author of The Silent Film Universe

06-02
01:31:13

119: First Women of Hollywood • The Visionary June Mathis

Mary Mallory, author of First Women of Hollywood • Thomas J. Slater, author of June Mathis: The Rise and Fall of a Silent Film Visionary (87:33)

05-01
01:27:33

118: Nasty Women Return! • Rhea Combs on Oscar Micheaux • Katie Gee Salisbury on Anna May Wong

Nasty Women Return! Karen Pearlman on Breaking Plates and Smashing the Patriarchy • Rhea Combs on Oscar Micheaux: The Complete Collection • Katie Gee Salisbury, author of Not Your China Doll: The Wild and Shimmering Life of Anna May Wong (92:56)

03-03
01:32:55

117: Steve Massa on Roscoe Arbuckle • Noah Isenberg on Edgar Ulmer

Steve Massa on a Roscoe Arbuckle DVD/Blu-ray Kickstarter • Noah Isenberg, author of Edgar G. Ulmer: A Filmmaker at the Margins (92:14)

02-01
01:32:14

116: Dave Kehr on To Save and Project • Copenhagen Silent Film Festival • Moguls

Dave Kehr on MoMA's To Save and Project preservation festival • Thomas Christensen on the Copenhagen Silent Film Festival • Authors Michael Benson and Craig Singer on Moguls: The Lives and Times of Hollywood Pioneers Nicholas and Joseph Schenck (90:33)

12-31
01:30:22

115: Top Ten in Physical Media 2024 • South West Silents & Film Noir UK • Burt Kearns on Shemp!

Top Ten in Physical Media 2024, with Bruce Calvert • James Harrison on South West Silents & Film Noir UK • Burt Kearns on Shemp! (96:58)

12-02
01:36:57

114: Silents Synced • Pordenone Festival Report 2024 • Thomas Walsh on Art Director Ben Carré

Josh Frank, creator of Silents Synced • Pordenone Festival Report 2024, with Lokke Heiss • Thomas Waksh on pioneering art director Ben Carré (93:32)

10-29
01:33:32

113: John Ford and the Cavalry • Francis Ford • The Brothers of the Bs

Michael F. Blake, author of The Cavalry Trilogy: John Ford, John Wayne, and the Making of Three Classic Westerns • Kathy Fuller Seeley on Francis Ford • Thomas Reeder, author of Poverty Row Royalty: The Films of Producer Sigmund Neufeld and His Brother, Director Sam Newfield (90:33)

09-17
01:30:33

112: Seeing Napoleon • Rouben Mamoulian • Helen Morgan

Bruce Calvert on the new restoration of Napoleon (1927) • Kurt Jensen, author of Peerless: Rouben Mamoulian, Hollywood and Broadway • Christopher S. Connelly, author of Helen Morgan: The Original Torch Singer and Ziegfeld's Last Star (91:14)

08-03
01:31:14

111: Dave Glass on Monty Banks • Jeffrey L. Carrier on Patsy Ruth Miller

Dave Glass on silent comedian Monty Banks • Jeffrey L. Carrier on silent star Patsy Ruth Miller (78:25)

06-03
01:18:25

110: Vitagraph Comedies • Film Is Dead. Long Live Film! • Lon Davis Meets The Old Stars

Vitagraph Comedies, with Rob Stone, George Willeman and Lynanne Schweighofer • Peter Flynn, director of Film is Dead. Long Live Film! • Lon Davis, author of Stumbling Into Film History (99:54)

05-01
01:39:53

109: Billy! Brackett and Wilder • Double Indemnity and the Rise of Noir

Donald Brackett, author of Double Solitaire: The Films of Brackett and Wilder • Alain Silver and James Ursini, authors of From the Moment They Met It Was Murder: Double Indemnity and the Rise of Film Noir (99:22)

04-02
01:39:22

108: Bryony Dixon on Victorian Film • Death by Laughter • Tod Slaughter

Bryony Dixon on Victorian Film • Maggie Hennefeld on Women and Death by Laughter • Sam Dunn on the Deadly Doings of Tod Slaughter (87:20)

03-04
01:27:20

107: Dan Streible on Orphan Films • Mike Mashon on the Changing Preservation Scene

Dan Streible on Orphan Films • Mike Mashon on the Changing Preservation Scene (85:52)

02-01
01:25:52

106: Donald Bogle on Lena Horne • Restoring William S. Hart • Pamela Hutchinson on The Red Shoes

Donald Bogle, author of Lena Horne: Goddess Reclaimed • Tracey Goessel on restoring William S. Hart • Pamela Hutchinson, author of BFI Film Classics: The Red Shoes (96:44)

01-04
01:36:44

105: Top Ten in Physical Media 2023, with Bruce Calvert • Foster Hirsch on Movies in the 50s

Top Ten in Physical Media 2023, with Bruce Calvert and Michael Gebert • Foster Hirsch, author of Hollywood and the Movies of the Fifties, on Movie Culture in the 50s (97:11)

12-06
01:37:11

104: Pordenone 2023 Festival Report • The "Only" Woman Animator • Scott Eyman on Chaplin vs. America

NitrateVille Radio Ep. 104: Pordenone 2023 Festival Report, with Lokke Heiss • Mindy Johnson on Bessie Mae Kelley, The "Only" Woman Animator • Scott Eyman, author of Charlie Chaplin vs. America (108:27)

11-03
01:48:27

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