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An international narrative history of film from its origins to right now. Each episode covers movies, movements, film makers, technology, culture and politics, technique, and more.
An interview with Japanese media scholar Anne McNight about her new book Long Take . Long Take is a collection of interviews and other mater...
An episode about Gance, covering his life and movies from birth to just before of the release of his monumental film J'accuse. Support...
An episode all about proper (or not explicitly patriotic) melodrama as it was developing in France during the war. Who were these movies mad...
This episode is a little smaller in scope than usual. But like one my great podcasting heroes, my ambition for this show is to tell the hist...
In this episode we cover just how, exactly, American cinema came to dominate Europe in the wake of WW1. We take a look at the economic pract...
This week we cover the effect of The War on the French film Industry. While The Conflict's Titanic needs did a real number on French pr...
This episode reexamines some topics we have already looked at, but this time as context for one of history's greatest butcheries, rathe...
The History of Film Podcast has been on Haitus since May of 2022. This announcement officially ends that. Let's get back to it! If you...
In this episode we finish up our series on early animation by covering Gertie the Dinosaur and The Sinking of the Lusitania, both animated b...
This is the first of two episodes (only two, I promise) about the great animator Winsor McCay. We cover his life before he became a filmmake...
It's a new year, and the History of Film is back! In this episode, we cover the life and achievements of French animator Emile Cohl, as...
The long promised day is finally here! We dive into the world of animation, examine ancient Iranian pottery, and meet animators named Charle...
In this episode we take a look at Griffith's second most famous movie, Intolerance , and examine its production, structure, and impact....
This is the last of it. In this episode, we dig into how and why The Birth of a Nation was so influential, and who was influenced by it. I a...
When I write these, I never know just how long they will be. As it turns out, talking about a film that has had a huge impact on the develop...
Well, where it is. The Birth of a Nation is an extremely important movie. It would be hard to overstate it. In this episode, we cover the or...
This is the first of (hopefully) a recurring series of episodes on film critical theory. Today, with special guest Melissa Favara, we cover...
Here it is! Its an episode and a subject that has been a long time coming, and it's one that is less important then people used to thin...
Hello and welcome back! This is everything about early Italian films that we didn’t cover in the last two episodes. That means we talk a lit...
A few words on exciting changes that are coming to "The History of film in very near future. historyoffilmpodcast@gmail.com historyoffilmpod...
This week it's all about two movies Quo Vadis? from 1912 or 1913 and Cabiria from 1914. If you would like to visit the show's webs...
This is the first of a planned three-episode series about Italian film from before the 1920's and the rise of fascism in Italy. In this...
It is a little late, but it is also long! This is one I have been researching and working on for a long time. This week it's all about...
Forget movies that are a mere five reels long, how about three hundred!? In the United States during the "nickelodeon era" of film history,...
Just as promised in episode 15, this week we begin our journey through the early influences of feature-length movies that will eventually ta...
16- The Stars are Born Here it is, episode 16, which in my heart, is the Kill Bill Vol. II of the podcast. This one pares a lot with episode...
This episode is actually a bonus episode, rather than the other “bonus” episode I’ve released, which was 30 minutes long and took weeks to m...
This is actually the first of a two-part episode that I was originally going to call "Trustbusters." This week, we cover the early events of...
This was a wonderful episode to produce, even if it was tricky. If you would like to learn all of the things that I didn't get to in th...
The reason my voice sounds just a little off is because I have been pretty sick for more than a week now. This is far and away the best I ha...
It’s a big one again this week! We complete our second and Gil episode focused on filmmaker Edwin S. Porter, and discuss how his movies rela...
Edwin S. Porter and some of his early films and achievements are highlighted here, as well as some achievements that he did not... well, ach...
It's the second part of episode 11, in which we cover Alice Guy's movies. Movies, after all, are just as much a part of film histo...
A longer episode this week, and we aren't even done yet! In this exciting episode, we cover the early career of Leon Gaumont and his fi...
CORRECTION: Okay, it turns out Max Linder is much more remembered than I thought he was. Not only is he featured, albeit briefly, in many of...
We cover the life and accomplishments of Charles Pathé! This is actually the first in a series of at least two episodes, as I hope to upload...
It was a big episode this time, and it took me a long time to write. But here it is! As I said at the end of the episode, a huge thanks to S...
In the most dramatic and magical episode of the show so far, we cover the life and achievements of cinemas first great magician, Georges Mél...
This week we look at some of the "firsts" in film history as they occurred in the Lumiere's early projections. We also describe a few a...
This episode we cover an exciting, but ultimately unfruitful, film made in the Black Maria, and voyage to Europe to meet the Lumiere family,...
Let's all go to the movies! Sorry, I am two days late. Today we discuss the kinetograph, and the movies made on it, including Fred Ott&...
Kodak, Edison, and Dixon are introduced, as are their first roles in the story of film history. Next week we cover movies they made. I use m...
Cinema was not born of void. Earlier inventions, including, but not limited to, the magic lantern, diorama theater, the photograph, and vaud...
The foundations of cinema from cave paintings to the invention of the chronophotographic gun. Visit the show's website at historyoffilm...