87 episodes
Matinees On Main Street: A Movie History Podcast Alan Linquist
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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.
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Episode 85 - The Patent Trust Flexes It's Muscle
The Patent Trust was now completely organized, so they set out to force the film distributors and movie exhibitors to operate according to rules devised by the Trust. Good luck!
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Episode 84: The Merger Of the Patent Trusts
After a year of political gamesmanship, the two different patent groups, one headed by Edison Company, and the other headed by the Biograph Company, merged to create the official Patent Trust.
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Episode 82: D.W. Griffith Appears
At the bginning of 1908, Biograph Company was on hard times. Then they hired D. W. Griffith, and everything changed.
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Episode 81: Kalem Company Makes Ben Hur
In 1908, Kalem was a brand new film company focused on making quality films. One of ther first projects was to make a movie from the best selling novel Ben Hur.
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Episode 80: Chicago Looks To The West
The two Chicago movie companies, Essay and Selig, were making westerns by the end of 1907, and started to explore the American West as a backdrop to those movies.