About this episode

Michael Gebert discusses vintage films and their evolution in editing and performance styles.

Michael Gebert is the founder and co-moderator of NitrateVille , the online discussion site about vintage films of the silent era through the 1950s. Looking ahead to the advancements soon to come, his selections of almost all features demonstrate editing and performance style shifts, which branched off in slightly different ways in countries like America, France, and Sweden. Michael is host of the NitrateVille Radio podcast , which talks to people doing "cool stuff" in the world of vintage film, from authors and filmmakers to the curators of retrospectives and festivals. He is also a food journalist in Chicago and the author of The Chicago Way: An Oral History of Chicago Dining . Visit the5bestfilmsofeveryyearever.com/list to submit your own top five for 1913! Films and resources mentioned: Ingeborg Holm (1913) - Victor Sjöström Germinal (1913) - Albert Capellani The Child of Paris (1913) - Léonce Perret Traffic in Souls (1913) - George Loane Tucker Mabel’s Dramatic Career (1913) - Mack Sennett The Squaw Man (1914) - Cecil B. DeMille The Cheat (1915) - Cecil B. DeMille The Conquest of the Pole (1912) - Georges Méliès The Searchers (1956) - John Ford Sammy’s Scandalous Scheme…

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