The Dawn of Cinema, Part II of II

https://anchor.fm/watchingsilentfilms/episodes/The-Dawn-of-Cinema–Part-II-of-II-ea8259
YiFeng & Lily wrap up the dawn of cinema by chatting about Georges Méliès’s A Trip to the Moon (Le Voyage dans la Lune) from 1902 and Edwin S. Porter’s The Great Train Robbery from 1903.

00:00 What our podcast is about!
~2:00 Film preservation/restorations
~14:00 Context of Part II
~16:30 Lily’s 1st experiences w/silent films
~26:00 YiFeng’s 1st experiences w/silent films
~34:00 A Trip to the Moon (1902)
~1:20:43 The Great Train Robbery (1903)
~1:52:32 Wrap/Conclusion

Recorded on August 9th, 2019

Referenced on this podcast:
Nitrateville podcasts: https://www.nitrateville.com/viewforum.php?f=29&sid=e095c8aa3edac1838b7eb87c94d0372e
San Francisco Silent Film Festival: http://www.silentfilm.org/
My Nitrateville thread: https://www.nitrateville.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=28288&p=222879#p222879
10 years 10 films that we’ve watched/discussed: http://zepfanman.com/10y10f/#p2
TCM film festial http://filmfestival.tcm.com/
A Short History of Movies: https://amzn.to/35WFeXX
Pordenone Silent Film Festival http://www.giornatedelcinemamuto.it/en/

The Dawn of Cinema, Part I of II

https://anchor.fm/watchingsilentfilms/episodes/The-Dawn-of-Cinema–Part-I-of-II-ea21j9
Here it is!!! ^ The very first episode of a brand new podcast discussing the advent of cinema itself! Hope you enjoy it! Here is the original thread that I asked about early cinema:
https://www.nitrateville.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=28288
and the subsequent link from that thread we used this week to review the films:
http://zepfanman.com/2018/02/videos-world-cinema-1898-1907-10y10f2/
^Thanks to the zepfanman proprietor J. J. DiUbaldi! In case that site disappears, here is a list of films we discussed as our feature:
00:00 Why did I create this podcast?
~6:50 Context is King!
~9:14 Historic context leading upto silent films
~14:50 How film preserves the image on nitrate
~31:00 Intro. & discussions to the 10 films we have watched
~1:28:00 Conclusion/wrap up

• 1898 – Santa Claus (Smith; England; 77sec)
• 1899 – Maple Leaf Viewing (Shibata; Japan; 2min)
• 1900 – The Enchanted Drawing (Blackton; New Jersey; 2min)
• 1901? The Maasbrug in Rotterdam (Nöggerath? Netherlands; 85sec)
• 1904 – Westinghouse Works (Bitzer; New Jersey; 70min)
• 1905 – The Misadventure… (Mullens; Netherlands; 5min)
• 1906 – The Story of the Kelly Gang (Tait; Australia; 60min)
• 1907? Dranem Performs ‘The True Jiu-Jitsu’ (Guy; France; 2min)

^A Trip to the Moon and A Great Train Robbery were moved to Part II due to how long this podcast was already.

Reference from podcast: The Parade’s Gone By: https://amzn.to/2QxkQbt