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History Lessons for Misanthropes

Nov 17, 2020

In this episode Mildred shares a history of the early days of moving pictures, and the race among inventors to be the first to discover a way of photographing and projecting.  Among the inventors was Louis le Prince, who is arguably the first person to invent and patent a moving picture camera and projector.  But his...


Nov 3, 2020

In this episode, we're joined by Dan, a film scholar and horror movie buff.  We discuss the 1927 silent film London After Midnight, the first Hollywood vampire film.  Shrouded in mystery, this movie was lost in a warehouse explosion, and was responsible for a murder.  Is it cursed?

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