1933 - Lubitsch Please! | One Week, One Year, a Film History Podcast

1933 was a year full of big and wild movies! Popeye! Marx Bros! Busby Berkeley musicals! Throuple rom-coms! Psychic supervillains! An invisible man and KING KONG! Pre-code Hollywood is putting out some of the most daring films made so far, and we're gonna talk about 'em!
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00:00 - Intro
02:08 - News of the Year!
06:26 - Popeye the Sailor
14:12 - A Night on Bald Mountain
20:59 - Duck Soup
35:54 - Gold Diggers of 1933
59:50 - Design for Living
01:19:14 - The Testament of Dr. Mabuse
01:38:31 - The Invisible Man
02:02:44 - KING KONG
02:47:35 - Outro and Favorites
See you next year!

[@thehawk515]

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

[@samsheppard8265]

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

[@rbbonotto]

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.

[@oneweekoneyear9891]

Thanks for these corrections/notes! We do our best to speak accurately but when it's off the cuff sometimes it's hard to be perfect.

[@rbbonotto]

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.