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1896 - Watch Out For That Train!!

One Week, One Year
One Week, One Year
Episode • Sep 1, 2020 • 54m

Wow! 2 weeks! Who would have guessed! In this episode we talk about cinema's second year, including one of the most iconic films of all time, Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat Station. This year the Lumieres develop their techniques and send cameras to capture actualities around the world, plus we see the rise of Georges Méliès: the first person to see the true potential of film as a storytelling art form and lover of spooky skeletons.

 

Sorry about the audio quality in this one, we had a big of a technical kerfuffle and had to use the backup zoom audio, but we'll be working with our spiffy condenser mics next week!

 

The full playlist of films discussed

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--- The Iconic Arrival of a Train and its Terrifying Modern Reflections ---

Arrival of a Train

Arrival of a Train 4k

Gross babies

 

--- The Lumières Advance in Technique ---

Lancement d'un navire 

Quai de l'Archevêché, Lyon

Duel au pistolet

Panorama of the Grand Canal, Venice

Demolition of a wall

--- Enter Georges Melies ---

Card Party

The Vanishing Lady

The House of the Devil

--- Racial Imagery ---

A Nightmare

A Morning Bath

Ignatiy Vishnevetsky’s review

 

--- The First Horny Films ---

The Kiss

What a a mutoscope looks like

Le Coucher de la Mariée

 

--- Alice Guy-Blance, the First Female Director ---

The Cabbage Fairy, which is actually lost

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