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Matinees On Main Street: A Movie History Podcast
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Episode 100: A Look At Early California
39 mins; January 07, 2025
100th Episode! Extra!
10 mins; January 07, 2025
Episode 99: The Biographers and the O'Kalems
35 mins; December 26, 2024
Episode 98: The Jack Johnson Fight
44 mins; December 10, 2024
Episode 97: The Roosevelt Safari
37 mins; November 26, 2024
Episode 96: The French Come to America
46 mins; November 12, 2024
Episode 95: Upgrading Movie Theaters
34 mins; October 29, 2024
Episode 94- The "Do-Gooders" Effect
45 mins; October 15, 2024
Episode 93 - The Westerns Look for a Home
50 mins; October 01, 2024
Episode 92: How The Edisons Made Movies
24 mins; September 17, 2024
Episode 91: D.W. Griffith and his Early Biograph Movies
37 mins; September 03, 2024
Episode 90: Little Mary Pickford
44 mins; August 20, 2024
Episode 89: The Biograph Girl
61 hours 35 mins; August 07, 2024
Episode 88 - The Rise Of The Independents
36 mins; July 23, 2024
Episode 87: THe Do-Gooders React
42 mins; July 09, 2024
Episode 86: The Establishment
40 mins; June 25, 2024
Episode 85 - The Patent Trust Flexes It's Muscle
33 mins; June 11, 2024
Episode 84: The Merger Of the Patent Trusts
46 mins; May 28, 2024
Episode 83 - Movies Of 1908
42 mins; May 15, 2024
Episode 82: D.W. Griffith Appears
39 mins; April 30, 2024
Episode 81: Kalem Company Makes Ben Hur
49 mins; April 16, 2024
Episode 80: Chicago Looks To The West
38 mins; April 02, 2024
Episode 79: Starting The Patent Trust
51 mins; March 19, 2024
Episode 78: The Panic of 1907
42 mins; March 05, 2024
Episode 77: The NIckelodeon Problem
30 mins; February 20, 2024
Episode 76: Movie-Mania
33 mins; February 06, 2024
Episode 75: The Big Change
29 mins; January 23, 2024
Episode 74: The First Actors
44 mins; January 09, 2024
Episode 73: The First Cameramen and Directors
46 mins; December 26, 2023
Episode 72: EARLY MOVIE STUDIOS
54 mins; December 12, 2023
Episode 71: Movies From The Middle Of The First Decade Of The Twentieth Century
47 mins; November 28, 2023
Episode 70: Chicago, The Second City
35 mins; November 14, 2023
Episode 69 - The Thaw - White Murder
41 mins; October 31, 2023
Episode 68: Australia and the Ned Kelly Gang
41 mins; October 17, 2023
Episode 67: Films of the San Francisco Earthquake
33 mins; October 03, 2023
Episode 66: England and Cecil Hepworth
23 mins; September 19, 2023
Episode 65: The Invisible Network
32 mins; September 05, 2023
Episode 64: Pathé Changes The Game
52 mins; August 22, 2023
Announcement
3 mins; August 22, 2023
Episode 63: Harry Davis' Nickelodeon
24 mins; August 08, 2023
Episode 62: Hales Tours
30 mins; July 25, 2023
Episode 61: The First Film Exchanges
42 mins; July 11, 2023
Episode 60: Chase Films and the movie Personal
28 mins; June 27, 2023
Episode 59: Chicago's William Selig
35 mins; June 13, 2023
Episode 58: The Great Train Robbery
37 mins; May 30, 2023
Episode 57: Early Movie Industry Chaos
41 mins; May 16, 2023
Episode 56: Pathé Frères
37 mins; May 02, 2023
Episode 55: Laughing At Very Early Comedies
33 mins; April 18, 2023
Episode 54: The First Moving Picture Theaters
37 mins; April 04, 2023
Episode 53: A Trip To The Moon
42 mins; March 21, 2023
Episode 52: The Philadelphia Company - Lubin
25 mins; March 07, 2023
Episode 51: The Beginning Of The Patent War
32 mins; February 21, 2023
Episode 50: The Rise of the Traveling Exhibitors
29 mins; February 07, 2023
Episode 49: Oh, The Stories We Could Tell
43 mins; January 24, 2023
Episode 48: Cinematic Odds And Ends-1900-1902
34 mins; January 10, 2023
Episode 47: A Time Of Newsreels
51 mins; December 27, 2022
Episode 46: Jeffries-Sharkey Fight
37 mins; December 13, 2022
Episode 45: A World Of Cinema in 1900
40 mins; November 29, 2022
Episode 44: A Look at 1900
42 mins; November 15, 2022
Episode 43: Cinema Comes To Japan
34 mins; November 01, 2022
Episode 42: England and the Movies
53 mins; October 18, 2022
Episode 41: Train Films and Phantom Rides
37 mins; October 04, 2022
Episode 40: The Spanish-American War (Part 2)
37 mins; September 21, 2022
Episode 39: The Spanish-American War (Part 1)
40 mins; September 06, 2022
EPISODE 38: Leon Gaumont and Alice Guy
30 mins; August 23, 2022
Episode 37: The Beginning of The Patent War
30 mins; August 09, 2022
Episode 36: Vitagraph
29 mins; July 26, 2022
Episode 35: Actualities And Other Things
35 mins; July 12, 2022
Episode 34: Georges Méliès
31 mins; June 28, 2022
Episode 33: What People Thought Of Moving Pictures
30 mins; June 14, 2022
Episode 32: The Passion Plays
54 mins; May 31, 2022
Episode 31: The Paris Charity Bazaar Fire
29 mins; May 17, 2022
Episode 30: The Corbett - Fitzsimmons Fight
56 mins; May 03, 2022
Episode 29: 1897
25 mins; April 19, 2022
Episode 28: Cinema Begins In Chicago
28 mins; April 05, 2022
Episode 27: New York, New York
27 mins; March 22, 2022
Episode 26: America Discovers Projected Movies
31 mins; March 08, 2022
Episode 25: Koopman, Dickson, Casler and Marvin
30 mins; February 22, 2022
Episode 24: Vitascope Stars: May Irwin and Cissy Fitzgerald
29 mins; February 08, 2022
Episode 23: Cinema Goes Global
38 mins; January 25, 2022
Episode 22: Edison Introduces The Vitascope
31 mins; January 11, 2022
Episode 21: Vaudeville
32 mins; December 28, 2021
Episode 20: Cinema Arrives in London
38 mins; December 14, 2021
Episode 19: The First Public Movie Exhibition
31 mins; November 30, 2021
Episode 18: The Original Star: Annabelle Moore
43 mins; November 16, 2021
Episode 17: The Lumieres
29 mins; November 02, 2021
Episode 16: The Poisonous Partnership
33 mins; October 19, 2021
Episode 15: Laurie Dickson's Problems
42 mins; October 05, 2021
Episode 14: The Early Kinetoscope Films
22 mins; September 21, 2021
Episode 13: Kinetoscopes Appear in Europe
39 mins; September 07, 2021
Episode 12: And The Winner Is...The Lathams Exhibit Boxing Films
30 mins; August 23, 2021
Episode 11: New York City Sees It's First Moving Pictures Through a Peephole Machine
24 mins; August 10, 2021
Episode 10: Looking At The First Kinetoscope Clips
27 mins; July 27, 2021
Episode 9: Edison Devises A Peephole Machine Called the Kinetoscope
30 mins; July 13, 2021
Episode 8: The Paths Not Taken
38 mins; June 29, 2021
Episode 7: From Muybridge to Marey to Edison
38 mins; June 15, 2021
Episode 6: George Eastman and Kodak
24 mins; June 01, 2021
Episode 5: Muybridge Photographs Racehorses
28 mins; May 18, 2021
Episode 4: The Curious Path Of Young Tom Edison
42 mins; May 04, 2021
Episode 2: Muybridge and Stanford
26 mins; March 30, 2021
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