26 JUN 2024 · Maggie Hennefeld, Professor of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, has literally written the book(s) on early cinematic feminist humor. https://cup.columbia.edu/book/death-by-laughter/9780231559812 and https://cup.columbia.edu/book/specters-of-slapstick-and-silent-film-comediennes/9780231179478 tackle similar themes to those explored in her five picks from the 1890s, which reveal the expansive possibilities of the earliest days of film, from anarchic comedy to those who worked behind the camera. Maggie is also a curator of the 4-disc DVD/Blu-ray collection https://kinolorber.com/product/cinemas-first-nasty-women-blu-ray and co-director of https://archivesonscreen.org/. Her socials are: Twitter: https://x.com/magshenny Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hennefem/ Bsky: https://bsky.app/profile/hennefem.bsky.social Visit https://www.the5bestfilmsofeveryyearever.com/list to submit your own five favorites of the 1800s for a final tally in the season finale! Films and resources mentioned: - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qre61opE_g - The Cabbage Fairy (1896) - Alice Guy-Blaché - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kLCaP-AxGk&t=43s - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDnXyXKZRKM - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ReNflTgkZDA - The Dairy Maid's Revenge (1899) - Frank S. Armitage - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6Mgex4DI7M - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-15jwb1ZTMA - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UoMW37xfMRw - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iH1sKdwi9k - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47qRYJVIl9k - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCYYa0WxLXA - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwrdeKcXSNI - https://youtu.be/gOHQOJaHTXo?si=UjFKGbxhgGpKldRx - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NJj12tJzqc - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGCvdlaWUF0 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCm51fg5hpk - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgpWtyT1nxM - https://youtu.be/o5KsSMMNKps?si=-R-Wvfds0AWMU2tv - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvOeJa74DQo - https://wfpp.columbia.edu/2019/10/17/do-you-believe-in-fairies-cabbages-victorian-memes-and-the-birth-of-cinema-seeing-sapphic-sexuality-in-the-silent-era/ - https://wfpp.columbia.edu/ - https://muse.jhu.edu/article/856444 - "The Cinema of Attraction[s]: Early Film, Its Spectator and the Avant-Garde" - Tom Gunning - https://silentlondon.co.uk/ - https://loftcinema.org/

19 JUN 2024 · As a feminist film historian and scholar, Aurore Spiers (she/her) is mainly focused on women’s contributions to film, with her work interrogating historiographical processes—what history gets written, how, and why—through the lens of gender and intersectional and multidimensional feminism. That focus is reflected in her five picks for the 1800s, as the labor behind the camera is explored and expectations of this period in film are challenged. Aurore received her PhD in Cinema and Media Studies from The University of Chicago in 2022. Since 2015, she has been a contributing editor to the Women Film Pioneers Project, edited by Jane Gaines, Monica Dall’Asta, Radha Vatsal, and Kate Saccone, and published by Columbia University Libraries. Her Twitter handle is https://x.com/AurSpiers. Visit https://www.the5bestfilmsofeveryyearever.com/list to submit your own five favorites of the 1800s for a final tally in the season finale! Films and resources mentioned: - The Dairy Maid's Revenge (1899) - Frank S. Armitage - https://vimeo.com/305144396 - The Cabbage Fairy (1896) - Alice Guy-Blaché - https://youtu.be/2kLCaP-AxGk?si=RRxKJkW6ZWnmnTmY - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TwV4uCrDhY - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zqCRVhiNGk - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2_ioXKuxoQ - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lo1Q97Jx_gw - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOHQOJaHTXo - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wy7iUTHGUsA - The Lily of Life (1920) - Loie Fuller - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FAj9fJQRZA - https://wfpp.columbia.edu/ - https://wfpp.columbia.edu/cinemas-first-nasty-women/ - https://wfpp.columbia.edu/2019/10/17/do-you-believe-in-fairies-cabbages-victorian-memes-and-the-birth-of-cinema-seeing-sapphic-sexuality-in-the-silent-era/ - https://www.amazon.com/Letters-Auguste-Lumi%C3%A8re-Jacques-Rittaud-Hutinet/dp/0571175457 - https://www.dukeupress.edu/japonisme-and-the-birth-of-cinema - https://www.aup.nl/en/book/9789089646576/fantasia-of-color-in-early-cinema

12 JUN 2024 · As the first guest of The 5 Best Films of Every Year Ever and its 1800s season, writer and avid "prehistoric" film watcher J.J. DiUbaldi explores sound, color, and positive racial depictions (among other topics) through his five picks; things one might not expect to find in the earliest motion pictures of the 1880s and '90s. J.J. maintains https://zepfanman.com/, an eclectic hodgepodge of his interests over the years. His goal is to connect people and facilitate sharing in a way that only the internet can provide, which includes a 10 Years 10 Films blog series that is not unlike this podcast. You can also follow him on Letterboxd https://letterboxd.com/zepfanman/. Visit https://www.the5bestfilmsofeveryyearever.com/list to submit your own five favorites of the 1800s for a final tally in the season finale! Films and resources mentioned: - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEQO0Fj9AtQ (1897) - Louis Lumière - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDnXyXKZRKM (1898) - William Selig - https://www.loc.gov/item/2006691786/ (1887) - Eadweard Muybridge - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6b0wpBTR1s (1894 or '95) - William K.L. Dickson - https://youtu.be/tdV4dL1VW4E?si=pqMdRv0gWvES60CJ (1899) - Georges Méliès - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYbsB8yrPds (1934) - Lloyd Corrigan - The Movie Orgy (1968) - Joe Dante - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twq4XwHplMY (1896) - William Heise - Nope (2022) - Jordan Peele - https://filmcolors.org/ - https://flickeralley.com/products/123006195-mlis-fairy-tales-in-color

5 JUN 2024 · Welcome to The 5 Best Films of Every Year Ever. Ahead of guests and listeners sharing their picks for the first decade or so of cinema up until the end of the nineteenth century, instructor and host Tristan Ettleman provides some context on the podcast and the creation of “moving pictures.”