Pamela Hutchinson's Silent London has been a great resource for Tristan since even before he started the written essay series that gives this podcast its name about seven years ago. Now, she joins the show to provide some context yet again, especially for how 1901 filmmakers weren't marching neatly toward narrative (they were tiptoeing toward it, dancing around it) and how some were specifically deconstructing the still-fledgling medium, through the lens of her five picks.

Pamela is a freelance writer, critic, curator, and film historian. Among her publications are two installments in the BFI Film Classics series: Pandora's Box and The Red Shoes.

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Films and resources mentioned:

• Panoramic View of the Morecambe Sea Front - unknown (1901)
• Demolishing and Building Up the Star Theatre - Frederick S. Armitage (1901)
• The Death of Poor Joe - George Albert Smith (1901)
• The Big Swallow - James Williamson (1901)
• Histoire d'un crime - Ferdinand Zecca (1901)
• The Red Shoes - Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger (1948)
• Leaving Jerusalem by Railway - Alexandre Promio (1897)
• Rough Sea at Dover - Birt Acres (1896)
• Wicked Little Letters - Thea Sharrock (2023)
• Living - Oliver Hermanus (2022)
• The Mountain Eagle - Alfred Hitchcock (1926)
• London After Midnight - Tod Browning (1927)
• The Dairy Maid's Revenge - Frederick S. Armitage (1899)
• A Nymph of the Waves - Frederick S. Armitage (1900)
• Demolition of a Wall - Louis Lumière (1896)
• The Suicide Squad - James Gunn (2021)
• Dream of a Rarebit Fiend - Wallace McCutcheon and Edwin S. Porter (1906)
• The Entertainer - Tony Richardson (1960)
• Scrooge, or, Marley's Ghost - Walter R. Booth (1901)
• Greed - Erich von Stroheim (1924)
• Attack on a China Mission - James Williamson (1900)
• Stop Thief! - James Williamson (1901)
• Fire! - James Williamson (1901)
• Eraserhead - David Lynch (1977)