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14a- Inside the Nickelodeon

14a- Inside the Nickelodeon

FromThe History of Film


14a- Inside the Nickelodeon

FromThe History of Film

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Length:
30 minutes
Released:
Apr 30, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode

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This was a wonderful episode to produce, even if it was tricky. If you would like to learn all of the things that I didn't get too in this episode, like some of the wonderful names nickelodeon’s had, I really can't recommend At The Picture Show: Small-Town Audiences and the Creation of Movie Fan Culture by Kathryn Fuller enough. I wish their was an audio book for it (but I feel that way about every book). A couple of clarifying points–I assume the "Latin races" that were talked about the quote from the beginning of the episode were intended to be in reference to people of ethnically Italian origin. Im fairly confident about this, as I don't think that LatinX people were a major minority population the metropolitan centers of the Northeastern United States at the turn of the 20th century. People of Italian origin, however, defiantly were, which is the basis of my assumption. I use the term "Latin races" as a segue to talk about LatinX peoples in the Southwestern United States, but by doing so I was removing the term form its original context. Women were not common in Nickelodeons of the South and Midwest, but undoubtedly some women, on rare occasions, would have seen movies. I'm not aware of any legal blockade against women attending movies, as was the case with the black populations of the South, but rather extremely powerful social and religious conventions.  Sill, for all intents and purposes, as I state in the show, nickelodeons in these regions were dominated by white men and boys. The song I played in the show was "Let's go into a picture show" as preformed by Byron G. Harlan. It was written by Jack Norworth, and was released as an Edison Phonograph record in 1909. If you would like to listen to the song in full (I didn't play the first verse in the show) you can look it up on youtube, or, as I did, the USBC Cylinder Audio Archive. 
Released:
Apr 30, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode

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A (mostly) chronological exploration of international film history. Each episode is a deep dive into the history of the people, events, technologies, cultural forces, and most all the movies that have molded cinema into what it is today! Join host Jacob Aschieris and other listeners for an in depth, thoughtful listening experience, and learn why no story ever written for the screen is as dramatic as the story of the screen itself!