Matinees On Main Street: A Movie History Podcast

Dec 10 2024 100 ep. 36 mins 2
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A history of the movies from the beginning. It's about how it was created, the people who made it, the ideas that transformed it, the people who created them, the places that showed them, and the rest of us who watched them.

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Episode 98: The Jack Johnson Fight

Dec 10 2024 44 mins  

Episode 97: The Roosevelt Safari

Nov 26 2024 37 mins  
When President Theodore Roosevelt retired from the Presidency, he immediately traveled to Africa to hunt big game in the name of the Smithsonian Institute. In the wake of this expedition, movies were made both with his permission and without it.

Episode 96: The French Come to America

Nov 12 2024 46 mins  
In the middle of the Trust War, and the indie rebellion, The French eye the American market and start establishing branch companies in the US.

Episode 95: Upgrading Movie Theaters

Oct 29 2024 34 mins  
Theater operator Roxy Rothephal started a drive to create a better movie watching experience by promoting better looking and larger movie theaters with the kind of amenities found in theater and high class department stores.

Episode 94- The "Do-Gooders" Effect

Oct 15 2024 45 mins  
The moralist attitudes of Victorians was starting to focus its attention on the movies, and the Trust was responding in kind.

Episode 93 - The Westerns Look for a Home

Oct 01 2024 50 mins  
As the movie companies become interested in making western themed movies, a shift takes place as some ofthe companies start making westerns in the west.

Episode 92: How The Edisons Made Movies

Sep 17 2024 24 mins  
The Edison Company was one of the few early movie companies to leave some historical record about how it made movies. We'll take a bit of a look at the work process.

Episode 91: D.W. Griffith and his Early Biograph Movies

Sep 03 2024 37 mins  
A look at D.W. Griffith's early work at Biograph Studios.

Episode 90: Little Mary Pickford

Aug 20 2024 44 mins  
In the shadow of Florence Lawrence's success at Biograph, another young actress appeared - MAry Pickford. This is her early story.

Episode 89: The Biograph Girl

Aug 07 2024 61 mins  
Not very long after the studios started hiring actors on a permanent basis, on of those actors suddenly became popular - The Biograph Girl.