NitrateVille Radio

Dec 30 2024 116 ep. 79 mins 207
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For fans of classic movies, talking with authors, archivists, filmmakers, musicians and others doing work with our film heritage. From NitrateVille.com, the classic film discussion site.

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

Dec 30 2024 90 mins  
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)

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

Dec 01 2024 96 mins  
Top Ten in Physical Media 2024, with Bruce Calvert • James Harrison on South West Silents & Film Noir UK • Burt Kearns on Shemp! (96:58)

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

Oct 29 2024 93 mins  
Josh Frank, creator of Silents Synced • Pordenone Festival Report 2024, with Lokke Heiss • Thomas Waksh on pioneering art director Ben Carré (93:32)

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

Sep 17 2024 90 mins  
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)

112: Seeing Napoleon • Rouben Mamoulian • Helen Morgan

Aug 03 2024 91 mins  
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)

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

Jun 03 2024 78 mins  
Dave Glass on silent comedian Monty Banks • Jeffrey L. Carrier on silent star Patsy Ruth Miller (78:25)

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

May 01 2024 99 mins  
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)

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

Apr 02 2024 99 mins  
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)

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

Mar 04 2024 87 mins  
Bryony Dixon on Victorian Film • Maggie Hennefeld on Women and Death by Laughter • Sam Dunn on the Deadly Doings of Tod Slaughter (87:20)

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

Feb 01 2024 85 mins  
Dan Streible on Orphan Films • Mike Mashon on the Changing Preservation Scene (85:52)