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Movie Etiquette Title Cards from the 1910s
Even when movies first got started, people didn’t know how to behave in the theater. This behavior is even parodied in D.W. Griffith’s 1909 film “Those Awful Hats” – which shows a very early form of...
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The Dawn of Technicolor
“The Dawn of Technicolor” is the first detailed history of Technicolor’s formative years. Authors James Layton and David Pierce recount the first two decades of one of the most widely recognized names...
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The Evolution of Batman in Cinema
A journey through the evolution of Batman on the big screen and cinema as a whole. From the serials of the 1940s to the Christopher Nolan blockbusters, watch as the iconic character transforms within...
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Moving Pictures: From Hollywood to Silicon Valley
This extended video-essay examines the technological innovation at the heart of cinema, focusing on the way in which cinema is coping with the move from Hollywood to Silicon Valley. Via Steven Benedict
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The Origin of Oscar
IMDb presents a special look at Oscar history in support of the upcoming Academy Museum of Motion Pictures.
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The Visual Effects Of Parting The Red Sea Through The Years
Jim Casey traces the visual effects that have brought the Parting of the Red Sea to life over the years.
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How Thomas Edison Invented Film Piracy
Believe it or not, film piracy goes way back before BitTorrent and those FBI warnings. Nope, ripping off films is as old as film itself. Piracy not only changed the movies… it BUILT the movies.
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The Origins of Auteur Theory | A Filmmaker IQ Lesson!!!
Auteur – it’s a favorite term of cinephiles around the world. But what exactly is Auteur Theory? In this Filmmaker IQ course we peel back pages of time and explore the origins of Auteur Theory from the...
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Behind the Scenes of NatGeo’s Stop Motion Animated History
Go behind the scenes of National Geographic’s stop-motion video about Trajan’s Column, an ancient Roman monument. Recent research sheds light on how it may have been built. Watch the finished version...
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Orson Welles talks about ‘Citizen Kane’ in 11-minute 1960 interview
Orson Welles talks about ‘Citizen Kane’ in this 1960 interview from the BBC Monitor series.
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The Story of the Indiana Jones Bridge Scene
Oscar-winning Special Effects Supervisor George Gibbs (‘Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom’, ‘Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade’, ‘Alien’) recounts the story of how they blew up the bridge in...
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Harold Lloyd: The Silent Era’s Underdog
Harold Lloyd was a master at playing the plucky underdog trying to win The Job and The Girl—both onscreen and off. Posterity may have proclaimed Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton the greater artists by...
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There Theremin: How Science Fiction Got its Sound
Bill Hammack discusses the theremin, and how it lead to one the music industry’s most fundamental assets, the electronic synthesizer.
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A Brief History of Godzilla
After 60 years of terrorizing the silver screen, Godzilla is ready to raid again this month. But even after 32 movie appearances, how much do we really know about him?
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Walt Disney, a Visionary Who Was Crazy Like a Mouse
How Walt Disney tossed the corporate playbook in order to dream big. Here is something that might surprise you: Walt Disney, that icon of American ingenuity, was in financial straits through most of...
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Watch this 1907 Edwin S. Porter film The “Teddy” Bears -Which Includes a Very...
On a hunting trip in 1902, then President Theodore Roosevelt refused to shoot an American Black Bear that had been tied to a tree. The story became the origin of the Teddy Bear. Here only 5 years after...
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The Fascinating History of Animation
Long before Pixar and today’s CGI special effects extravaganzas, early animators of the silent era experimented and introduced new techniques into filmmaking. Mark Quigley gives us a tour of the silent...
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How they filmed the Chariot Race in the Silent Film Version of Ben Hur
This short documentary covers the way they created the Chariot Race scene in the original Ben Hur in 1925 with something called “hanging miniature”
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