31: David J. Skal on Monster Shows • Pordenone 2018
Lokke Heiss on the 2018 Pordenone Silent Film Festival • Author David J. Skal on horror films on the 25th anniversary of his book The Monster Show (69:46)
Oct 26, 2018•1 hr 10 min
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30: Alice Guy Blaché • Milestone Films: Strange Victory & I Am Cuba
Pamela B. Green, director of Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché • Dennis Doros and Amy Heller of Milestone Films on Strange Victory and I Am Cuba (75:56)
Oct 04, 2018•1 hr 16 min
29: Ed Lorusso on Kickstarting The Cossack Whip • Rodney Sauer on Scoring Old Ironsides
Making Silent DVDs and Blu-Rays: Ed Lorusso on kickstarting The Cossack Whip • Rodney Sauer on scoring Old Ironsides (67:22)
Sep 15, 2018•1 hr 7 min
28: Movies of the Teens • Buster Keaton Convention • 60s Drive-In Stars
Fritzi Kramer of Movies Silently on Kidnapped (1917) • Darren Nemeth on How to Film Moving Pictures in the 1910's • Patricia Eliot Tobias on the 24th Buster Keaton Convention • Tom Lisanti on Talking Sixties Drive-In Movies (74:31)
Aug 23, 2018•1 hr 15 min
27: Hitler's Hollywood, with filmmaker Rüdiger Suchsland
Filmmaker Rüdiger Suchsland talks about his documentary on the slick, sometimes subversive propaganda films of the Nazi era, Hitler's Hollywood. (71:41)
Aug 03, 2018•1 hr 12 min
26: Farran Smith Nehme on Dietrich & Other Screen Sirens • Rescuing Cinerama
Farran Smith Nehme on Dietrich, Swanson, Crawford and Other Sirens • How John Harvey Rescued Cinerama (62:20)
Jul 13, 2018•1 hr 2 min
25: Richard Barrios on the 50 Best Musicals • Scott Eyman on Hank and Jim
Richard Barrios on Turner Classic Movies: Must-See Musicals: 50 Show Stopping Movies We Can't Forget • Scott Eyman on Hank and Jim: The Fifty-Year Friendship of Henry Fonda and James Stewart
Jun 21, 2018•1 hr 4 min
24: Cinevent's 50th, with Leonard Maltin, Biffle & Shooster And a Cast of Dozens
Cinevent's 50th • Leonard Maltin, Hooked on Hollywood • Michael Schlesinger Presents Biffle & Shooster
May 31, 2018•1 hr 7 min
23: Dave Kehr on Fox Precodes • TCM Film Festival with Nitrate Diva and Ben Model
NitrateVille Radio Ep. 23 | TCM Film Festival with Nitrate Diva Nora Fiore • Ben Model on Undercranking and Alice Howell • Dave Kehr on Fox Precodes at MOMA
May 07, 2018•1 hr 19 min
22: Douglas Fairbanks, with biographer Tracey Goessel
Douglas Fairbanks, with biographer Tracey Goessel, author of The First King of Hollywood
Apr 23, 2018•1 hr 20 min
21: King of Jazz, with James Layton and David Pierce
James Layton and David Pierce, authors of King of Jazz: Paul Whiteman's Technicolor Revue
Apr 09, 2018•58 min
20: Toronto Silent Film Festival | The Silent Treatment | Silent W.C. Fields
Toronto Silent Film Festival, with Shirley Hughes • The Silent Treatment, with Brandee Cox and Steven Hill • James L. Neibaur on Silent W.C. Fields
Mar 16, 2018•1 hr 5 min
19: German Expressionism | Pamela Hutchinson on Pandora's Box • Henry Nicolella on Frank Wisbar
German Expressionism | Pamela Hutchinson on Pandora's Box • Henry Nicolella on Frank Wisbar, director of Ferryman Maria
Feb 16, 2018•55 min
18: How Theaters Made the Movies, with William Paul • Kansas Silent Film Festival
The Kansas Silent Film Festival, with organizer Denise Morrison • William Paul, author of When Movies Were Theater: Architecture, Exhibition and the Evolution of American Film
Jan 24, 2018•1 hr 3 min
17: Jon Mirsalis on Lon Chaney and Finding "The Battle of the Century"
Collector and silent film accompanist Jon Mirsalis on a new Lon Chaney DVD, and a lost Laurel and Hardy pie fight.
Jan 04, 2018•53 min
16: Alan K. Rode on Michael Curtiz
Author Alan K. Rode on his book, Michael Curtiz: A Life in Film
Dec 11, 2017•1 hr 11 min
15: William Fox's Rise and Fall, with Vanda Krefft
Vanda Krefft, author of The Man Who Made the Movies: The Meteoric Rise and Tragic Fall of William Fox
Nov 21, 2017•50 min
14: Pordenone 2017 • Henry "Pathe" Lehrman • Before the Marx Brothers
Lokke Heiss on the Pordenone Silent Film Festival 2017 • Thomas Reeder, author of Henry "Pathe" Lehrman and the Birth of Silent Comedy • Robert S. Bader, author of Four of the Three Musketeers: The Marx Brothers on Stage
Nov 03, 2017•1 hr 9 min
13: Jerry Beck on Porky Pig and Captain Marvel • "Harold and Lillian"
NitrateVille Radio | Ep. 13: Jerry Beck on Porky Pig 101 and Captain Marvel • "Harold and Lillian: A Hollywood Love Story" With Filmmaker Daniel Raim
Oct 13, 2017•1 hr 3 min
12: Saving Colleen Moore: Joe Yranski • Eric Grayson
Saving Colleen Moore: Joe Yranski on her life and Her Wild Oat • Eric Grayson on Little Orphant Annie (63:46)
Sep 22, 2017•1 hr 4 min
11: 3-D! With Bob Furmanek and Jack Theakston
Bob Furmanek and Jack Theakston of 3-D Film Archive
Aug 31, 2017•1 hr 5 min
10: Cinecon • Beggars of Life, with author Thomas Gladysz
Cinecon classic film festival in Hollywood, with organizers Stan Taffel and Michael Schlesinger • Beggars of Life (1928), starring Wallace Beery and Louise Brooks, with author Thomas Gladysz (48:42)
Aug 12, 2017•49 min
9: Ben Model, Crowdfunding & When Knighthood Was in Flower
Ben Model, silent film accompanist for the Museum of Modern Art and others, on new crowdfunding models for silent film releases like Marion Davies in When Knighthood Was in Flower (63:00)
Jul 20, 2017•1 hr 3 min
8: Steve Massa, author of Slapstick Divas • Capitolfest
Steve Massa, author of Slapstick Divas: The Women of Silent Comedy | Art Pierce, director of Capitolfest in Rome, New York (61:45)
Jul 05, 2017•1 hr 2 min
7: Dawson City: Frozen Time • A Thousand Cuts
Ep. 7: Strange Places To Find Films! Bill Morrison, filmmaker of Dawson City: Frozen Time • Dennis Bartok and Jeff Joseph, authors of A Thousand Cuts: The Bizarre Underground World of Collectors and Dealers Who Saved the Movies (62:35)
Jun 16, 2017•1 hr 3 min
6: 70mm Festival • Classic Serial Daredevils of the Red Circle
70mm, with The Music Box Theatre's Julian Antos • Classic Serial Daredevils of the Red Circle, with Michael Schlesinger and Thad Komorowski (46:50)
Jun 08, 2017•47 min
5: J.B. Kaufman on Pinocchio
J.B. Kaufman, author of Pinocchio: The Making of the Disney Epic and other books on the films of Walt Disney (57:43)
May 21, 2017•58 min
4: The Festival Episode: Mostly Lost • Cinevent
The Festival Episode: Mostly Lost at the Library of Congress Packard Campus, with Rob Stone and Rachel DelGaudio, and Cinevent in Columbus, Ohio, with Michael Haynes (42:42)
May 02, 2017•43 min
3: TCM Classic Film Festival • Lois Weber
Nitrate Diva Nora Fiore on the TCM Classic Film Festival • Dennis Doros of Milestone Films on Lois Weber and Shoes and The Dumb Girl of Portici (48:00)
Apr 17, 2017•48 min
2: The Nitrate Picture Show • Behind the Door (1919)
The Nitrate Picture Show festival at the George Eastman Museum, with Jared Case and Deb Stoiber • San Francisco Silent Film Festival director Rob Byrne on Behind the Door (1919), now on video from Flicker Alley (45:55)
Apr 03, 2017•46 min
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