Matinees On Main Street: A Movie History Podcast

Patricia Vodick
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  • TV & FILM

A history of the movies from the beginning. It's about how it was created, the people who made it, the ideas that transformed it, the people who created them, the places that showed them, and the rest of us who watched them.

  1. Episode 100: A Look At Early California

    01/07/2025

    Episode 100: A Look At Early California

    While California was already starting to take on movie people in 1910, Americans saw the start as someting much more exotic than that. Well look around at tht California on this episode.

    39 min
  2. 100th Episode! Extra!

    01/07/2025

    100th Episode! Extra!

    I just want to let everyone who listens to this podcast to know that we have reached milestones. One hundred episodes are now available, and I'm about to achieve 2500 downloads on those episodes. So, I'll jabber on about myself for about ten minutes and then you can move on to the latest episode: THE WAY PEOPLE LOOKED AT CALIFORNIA IN 1910. Thank you!

    11 min
  3. Episode 99: The Biographers and the O'Kalems

    12/26/2024

    Episode 99: The Biographers and the O'Kalems

    The early movies were moving out of the studios and into the outlying areas. This includes the development of westerns, movies had in foregn lands, and comapnies starting to eye California as a place to work.

    36 min
  4. Episode 98: The Jack Johnson Fight

    12/10/2024

    Episode 98: The Jack Johnson Fight

    Matinees On Main Street: A Movie History Podcast

    44 min
  5. Episode 97: The Roosevelt Safari

    11/26/2024

    Episode 97: The Roosevelt Safari

    When President Theodore Roosevelt retired from the Presidency, he immediately traveled to Africa to hunt big game in the name of the Smithsonian Institute. In the wake of this expedition, movies were made both with his permission and without it.

    37 min
  6. Episode 96: The French Come to America

    11/12/2024

    Episode 96: The French Come to America

    In the middle of the Trust War, and the indie rebellion, The French eye the American market and start establishing branch companies in the US.

    46 min
  7. Episode 95: Upgrading Movie Theaters

    10/29/2024

    Episode 95: Upgrading Movie Theaters

    Theater operator Roxy Rothephal started a drive to create a better movie watching experience by promoting better looking and larger movie theaters with the kind of amenities found in theater and high class department stores.

    34 min
  8. Episode 94- The "Do-Gooders" Effect

    10/15/2024

    Episode 94- The "Do-Gooders" Effect

    The moralist attitudes of Victorians was starting to focus its attention on the movies, and the Trust was responding in kind.

    46 min
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A history of the movies from the beginning. It's about how it was created, the people who made it, the ideas that transformed it, the people who created them, the places that showed them, and the rest of us who watched them.

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