Recommendations for 1942: Bowery at midnight, the corpse vanishes, dr. Renault’s secret, invisible agent, the mad monster, the boogie man will get you, cat people, the corpse vanishes, dr. Renault’s secret, the ghost of Frankenstein, a light in the window, the mad doctor of market street, the mad monster, the mummy’s tomb, night monster & the undying monster

Which movie or movie(s) would you recommend from each year to get the gist of the histories?

Recommendations for 1941: the devil commands, dr. Jekyll and mr. Hyde, Tainstvennyy ostrov (mysterious island), man made monster, the monster and the girl, the black cat, the devil commands, dr. Jekyll and mr. Hyde, horror island, invisible ghost, king of the zombies, man made monster, the monster and the girl, spooks run wild & the wolf man

Recommendations for 1940: The Ape, Before I Hang, Black Friday, The Devil Bat, Dr. Cyclops, Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe, The Invisible Man Returns, The Invisible Woman, Mysterious Doctor Satan, Son of Ingagi, Weltraumschiff 1 startet ... (i.e. Spaceship I takes off), The Ape, Before I Hang, Black Friday, The Devil Bat, The Door with Seven Locks, Dr. Cyclops, The Ghost Breakers, The Invisible Man Returns, The Mummy's Hand, Son of Ingagi & You'll Find Out

Can you please do 1938, 1939, and 1940 whenever you get chances? 1938 had Ferdinand the Bull, Superman’s debut in the comics, and the deadliest hurricane in the east coast, 1939 had Gone With The Wind, Wizard of Oz, Andy Panda, New York World’s Fair, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, and the beginning of World War II, and 1940 had the beginnings of Tom and Jerry, Bugs Bunny, and Woody Woodpecker, the world’s first McDonald’s in San Bernardino, California, the World’s first Dairy Queen in Joliet, Illinois, the first Superman balloon dazzled everyone at the Macy’s 17th annual Thanksgiving Day Parade, and one of the deadliest November blizzards in world history that dropped temperatures from the 60s to below zero within a matter of hours and killing so many duck hunters in the midwestern part of the United States, named the Armistice Day Blizzard.

Recommendations for 1939: the phantom creeps, son of Frankenstein, buck Rogers, the man they could not hang, the return of doctor x, buried alive, the cat and the canary, the dark eyes of London, the face at the window, the gorilla, La herencia macabra, the man they could not hang, the return of doctor x, son of Frankenstein & torture ship

1. The Marx Bros. *were* paying attention to the politics of the time. They would stop filming and listen in to Hitler's speeches when they were broadcast in the U.S. 2. In Russian, the first name is often mirrored in the middle name: Dmitri Dmitrievitch Shostakovich, Alexander Alexandrovich Pushkin. 2. The push-pin animation went Canada-way when the NFB of Canada's Norman McLaren started to work with it in the 1950's. Other Canadian animators worked with it afterwards into the 1970's. 3. It was actually called the *Catholic* Legion of Decency. 4. Lang did return to Germany in the 60's and his last film is a return to Dr. Mabuse, filmed there with Gert Frobe ~ it's actually not a bad film.

In advance of 1940 and Chaplin's "The Great Dictator," take a look at the Kevin Brownlow (he and David Gill had done the Thames documentary "Hollywood" years before, that I recommended some time ago) documentary on Chaplin and Hitler, "The Dictator and the Tramp." It's often on KZbin.

Recommendations for 1938: flash Gordon’s trip to mars & flight to fame

Recommendations for 1937: non-stop New York & skeleton on horseback

Recommendations for 1936: the invisible ray, Kosmicheskiy reys, things to come, the walking dead, Flash Gordon, undersea kingdom, ghost patrol, the man who changed his mind, the devil-doll, Dracula’s daughter, Fährmann Maria, the golem, the invisible ray, el baúl macabro, the man who changed his mind, revolt of the zombies, Sweeney Todd: The demon barber of Fleet Street & the walking dead

Shout out to Myrna Loy & William Powell! In plenty of earlier pre code films, it's 1 bed to a couple. The Thin Man must have been made after July, 1934, when the Code started getting enforced.

Recommendations for 1935: the lost city, the phantom empire, loss of sensation, bride of Frankenstein, air hawks, the tunnel aka transatlantic tunnel, the black room, bride of Frankenstein, condemned to live, the crime of dr. Crespi, mad love, mark of the vampire, Ouanga, the raven, the student of Prague and werewolf of London

Merry Christmas guys 🍰🎄

Recommendations for 1934: die welt ohne maske, gold, the vanishing shadow, master of the world, once in a new moon, the black cat, black moon, Chloe, love is calling you, house of mystery, maniac, the phantom of the convent & the tell-tale heart

Happy to see you finally made your way to King Kong!

Will you do maybe, one tv show per year when you get to 1947, when tv started being preserved?

Recommendations for 1933: men must fight, it’s great to be alive, deluge, ein unsichtbarer geht Durch die stadt, the tunnel, the invisible man, La llorona, the ghoul, the invisible man, the monkey’s paw, murders in the zoo, mystery of the wax museum, night of terror, supernatural and the vampire bat

Really like your show, thanks for doing this 👍

I"m glad you took up the recommendation on seeing Hollywood. If you have a bit of space/time to see the others, I'd recommend Ep.10 (The Director) and Episode 2 (In The Beginning), which really has an air of discovery to it. Cheers!

It’s also interesting to note that along with the Fritz/ygor amalgamation that most impressions of ygor are done in a Peter Lorre stylee when to my knowledge he has never even played a mad scientist’s assistant let alone one from a Frankenstein film

Recommendations for 1932: l’atlantide, doctor x, Chandu the magician, 6 hours to live, f.p.1 antwortet nicht, island of lost souls, castle sinister, doctor x, freaks, island of lost souls, Kongo, the mask of fu Manchu, the monster walks, the most dangerous game, the mummy, murders in the rue morgue, the old dark house, Unheimliche geschichten, vampyr & white zombie

I was enthralled with the "extreme cold" documentaries of the 20s, like Nanook and The Epic of Everest (kind of like the south pole films of the teens). I also thought the performances in Eisenstein's Strike were even better than Potemkin. And a lesser-known Dorothy Davenport film, The Red Kimono, is worth seeking out, on the 2018 Kino Classic Pioneers First Women set.

Really like your show guys, glad to be in the 1900s, the 1890s were a wild ride 👍

Regardless of your like or dislike of either The Cocoanuts or Animal Crackers (or the Marx Bros in general), be aware that both were very successful Broadway shows prior to being filmed - as you pointed out - rather primitively at Paramount's Astoria studios. These movies are, then, essentially historical recordings of the Marx Bros' 1920s stage shows, and should be viewed as such. Interestingly, Animal Crackers went pretty much unseen for a couple decades due to rights issues. It's re-release in the 1970s was a small sensation. I can still remember standing on a huge line in front of the Sutton Theater in New York to get in to see it.

You don't like The Marx brothers you are not worth listining to goodbye !

1931: Platinum Blonde, The Public Enemy, City Lights, Little Ceaser

Recommendations for 1931: end of the world, Frankenstein, dr. Jekyll and mr. Hyde, Dracula Tod browning, Dracula George melford, Frankenstein, dr. Jekyll and mr. Hyde & the phantom

I feel like in the far future, people will look at J.K. Rowling the same way we do Griffith

Recommendations for 1930: the voice from the sky, Alraune & just imagine

Recommendations for 1929: high treason, the mysterious island, woman in the moon

When you get to 1957, PLEASE do Mayabazar. I am not a desi, but I appreciate the nation with the biggest film scene, India, and although you may be more familiar with RRR, Mayabazar starred NT Rama Rao Sr and many people who have seen both will tell you Mayabazar is superior. Also It's public domain in the US with subtitles

Guys, you really, really, really, really need to sit through Brownlow & Gill's documentaries: Hollywood, and Cinema Europe, and you probably should see 'em together, and soon. They're both about the silent era: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karel_%C4%8Capek

Recommendations for 1928: Alraune, Alraune, the ape, the fall of the house of usher Jean Epstein, the fall of the house of usher James Sibley Watson, Melville Webber, the terror, the man who laughs & the last warning

You might want to look at the last couple of chapters of Walter Kerr's "The Silent Clowns" to understand what Laurel & Hardy were up to. (And yes, it is worth it ~ he was an excellent critic.)

Before you finish with the decade, one of you should take a quick look over Kevin Brownlow's book "Beyond the Mask of Innocence" about left-wing films in the silent years, and why so few of them survived ~ mostly the usual problems, decomposition, etc. ~ but also that these sometimes widely-seen films are lost because they were produced by small studios both in the US and abroad, and tended to be shunted aside by historians. Many of the films are lost *but* Brownlow's book has a huge number of photos of the relevant films.

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Recommended for 1927: Certainly 'Sunrise;' and a *really* weird outlier, Renoir's 'Charleston Parade.' The English 'Shooting Stars' announced a new directing star in Anthony Asquith; the film is a bit weird in its characters' motivations, even by Brit Film standards.

The reason for the non-dialogue in 'Don Juan' is because it's mostly off-screen sounds, and the most 'pronounced' onscreen sound, a swordfight, didn't have to be perfectly synchronized. Also, Warners' main interest in sound was, at this time, getting huge soundtracks small towns that couldn't afford orchestras. One of the brothers actually said, "Who the hell wants to hear actors *talk* ?" (Yes, really: google it.)

Recommendations for 1927: metropolis, the cat and the canary, the gorilla, London after midnight, the unknown & the wizard

Recommendations for 1926: the bat, the bells, Faust - eine deutsche volkssage, maciste all’inferno, the magician & the student of Prague

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Recommendations for 1925: The Lost World, Luch Smerti, Paris Qui Dort, The Power God, Wunder Der Schöpfung, The Monster, The Phantom of the Opera & Wolfblood: A Tale of the Forest

Another impressive episode, and fortuitiously timed to have so many 1923 films at the festival. Thanks for sticking with the year by year reviews, and editing the clips to go along with your discussion.

Recommendations for 1923: black oxen, the hunchback of Notre dame, the last moment, old baron of rautaklyä & while Paris sleeps

Recommendations for 1921: Die Blitzzentrale, The Mechanical Man, Destiny, Dracula's Death, The Haunted Castle & The Phantom Carriage

1) You guys seem to know your way around silents better than you did a year ago, so I hope you won't take it amiss if I suggest you watch "Harold Lloyd, the Third Genius" which pops up all the time on KZbin and elsewhere. It's a good two episode set by Thames Television. 2) Another, definitely worth your time, is to KZbin search the words Hollywood, Brownlow, and Thames (or Gill) and watch the fascinating series on silent film that Thames did in the 70's, while some of the silent folks were still alive to be interviewed about them. 3) Re: WIndsor McCay being 'owned' by Hearst. ~~ Apparently McCay wanted to take his 'Gertie the Dinosaur' appearance tour across the country, but Hearst wouldn't hear of it. John Canemaker (himself an animator) details it in his very readable bio of McCay.

Glad you guys are back.

Recommendations for 1920: Algol, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde J. Charles Haydon, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde John S. Robertson, Figures of the Night, The Invisible Ray, Anita, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde John S. Robertson, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde J. Charles Haydon, Genuine, The Golem: How He Came into the World, The Head of Janus, The Penalty & The Monster of Frankenstein

Yay! I’m currently in 1945 and it’s slow going. Recommendations for 1919: die arche, the first men in the moon, the mistress of the world, the beetle, the plague of Florence & Unheimliche geschichten