The Tinsel Factory: A Film History Podcast (Katelyn Amber)

This week on The Tinsel Factory, a brief history of Spanish cinema. 

Movie Reviews: Blink Twice and Casa Bonita mi Amore

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https://thirdspace.org.au/city/blog/how-do-you-define-australian-films 

This week on The Tinsel Factory, an intro and explanation of genre theory and how they came to be. Movies: Elvis Support This Podcast: https://anchor.fm/tinselfactorypod Merch: https://shop.spreadshirt.com/the-tinsel-factory/all Venmo: @tinselfactorypod Buy Me a Coffee: buymeacoffee.com/tinselpod Sources: https://nofilmschool.com/drama-genre-film-and-television https://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Drama https://www.mhpbooks.com/there-are-only-six-kinds-of-story/ https://goteenwriters.com/2020/08/26/types-of-narrative-conflict/ https://nofilmschool.com/Film-Genre-Popularity-Infographic https://collider.com/movie-genres-defined-an-era-then-died/ Track Name: Cinematic Documentary Artist Name: AShamaluevMusic Copytight Owner: Aleksandr Shamaluev PRO BMI IPI: 853951605 CDbaby Publisher IPI: 700570289

This week on The Tinsel Factory, the life and work of Hollywood’s first movie star, Mary Pickford. Movie reviews: Umma & King Richard Support This Podcast: https://anchor.fm/tinselfactorypod Merch: https://shop.spreadshirt.com/the-tinsel-factory/all Venmo: @tinselfactorypod

This week on The Tinsel Factory, the man whose innovations in photography would allow the inventors of the movie cameras to create the motion picture - George Eastman. We’ll also discuss the fate of his company Kodak after its enigmatic founder’s death. On two sentence movie reviews: Licorice Pizza. Support This Podcast: https://anchor.fm/tinselfactorypod Merch: https://shop.spreadshirt.com/the-tinsel-factory/all Venmo: @tinselfactorypod Sources: youtube.com/watch?v=1i78MPxT0oU https://www.kodak.com/en/company/page/history

This week on The Tinsel Factory, the life and career of the worlds most famous Tramp: Charlie Chaplin. 

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Sources: The Real Charlie Chaplin (2021). dirs. Peter Middleton & John Spinney My Autobiography. by Charlie Chaplin (1964) Chaplin: His Life and Art by David Robinson (2013)

This week on The Tinsel Factory, we separate fact from fiction when it comes to the Kubrick moon landing. Movie Reviews: Barbie Support This Podcast: https://anchor.fm/tinselfactorypod  Merch: https://shop.spreadshirt.com/the-tinsel-factory/all Venmo: @tinselfactorypod Buy Me a Coffee: buymeacoffee.com/tinselpod Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/tinselfactory/ Sources: youtube.com/watch?v=xvaEvCNZymo youtube.com/watch?v=o8Kbu6k_3Bw  http://www.whale.to/c/secrets_of_the_shining.html https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2019/07/18/how-stanley-kubrick-staged-the-moon-landing-and-other-stories/ https://www.history.co.uk/shows/photos-that-changed-the-world/articles/debunking-the-moon-landing-hoax

Synopsis:

This week on the Tinsel Factory, The Road to Oscar - everything the every average Joe or Jane might like to know about how to get from making a movie to the Academy Awards stage - Oscar in hand.

On two sentence movie reviews I saw in a movie theatre - The Oscar Best Shorts Nominees and The Hunholy.

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Sources

https://web.archive.org/web/20150321031529/http://www.oscars.org/sites/default/files/87aa_rules.pdf

https://www.vox.com/culture/2019/2/21/18229512/oscar-campaigns-for-your-consideration-events-narratives-weinstein

Eligible 2020 Films: https://www.oscars.org/sites/oscars/files/93rd_oscars_reminder_list.pdf

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/an-oscars-night-diary

https://variety.com/2016/film/markets-festivals/susan-sarandon-oscars-1201775223/

https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/news-trends/article/3050267/what-does-winning-oscar-mean-actors-career-and-what

This week on The Tinsel Factory, the life (so far) of actor and director Clint Eastwood

Movie Reviews: The 2024 Oscar Nominated Animation Shorts

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youtube.com/watch?v=KZFRwh4eemQ 

This week on The Tinsel Factory, the life of screen legend John Wayne.

Movie Reviews: Argylle

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youtube.com/watch?v=5Xj5ZQNfJfY 

https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-Wayne 

Music: .youtube.com/watch?v=tQYQNui2Tgk&list=PLSRgPaEFtrEak-hj7Gq6KaWFdRo1LVQmi&index=2 

An animator, innovator, and yes, someone with some less than savory viewpoints and a dark side.  This week on The Tinsel Factory, we're covering the life of Walt Disney: an international celebrity by the time he was 30, heralded as a genius before the age of 40, he won more Oscars than anyone in film history, and changed the way families go on vacation.  

What to Watch: 

Pretty Much all Disney Shorts are on Disney+ 

Alice’s Wonderland (1923) - youtube.com/watch?v=tbi9bkTQWAQ&t=246s 

Alice Comedies (1924-1927)- youtube.com/watch?v=4ptLDuxbbVM&list=PLcYmVT3ToPQGGsyvcyXWsQ2_17t8QRqgY 

Oswald the Lucky Rabbit (1927)- youtube.com/watch?v=aZC9hS9vpEg&list=PLOSyfD7Esa5FHHwlLmaDsDtCmKHYzm_i2  

Silly Symphony Cartoons - Available on Disney+ 

Snow White and the Seven Dwarves (1937) - Available on Disney+ 

Pinocchio (1940) -Available on Disney+ 

Fantasia (1940) - Available on Disney+ 

Bambi (1942) - Available on Disney+ 

Cinderella (1950) - Available on Disney+ 

Treasure Island (1950)-Available on Disney+ 

Mary Poppins (1964)-Available on Disney+ 

SOURCES: PBS Documentary Walt Disney: The Biography American Experience: Walt Disney (PBS)

This week, we’re covering the history of Warner Brothers Studio

Recommended Viewing:

My Four Years in Germany (1918) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oo7vxGm9UZM

Don Juan (1926) - Available to rent

The Jazz Singer (1927) - Available to rent

Little Caesar (1931) - Available to rent

I Am a Fugitive From A Chain Gang (1931) - Available to rent

42nd Street (1933) - Available to rent

The Life of Emile Zola (1937) - Available to rent

Robin Hood (1938) - Available on HBOMax

Confessions of a Nazi Spy (1939) - Available to rent

Casablanca (1942) - Available on HBOMax

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolf? (1966) - Available on HBOMax

Bonnie and Clyde (1967) - Available on HBOMax

The Exorcist (1973) - Available on HBOMax

A Clockwork Orange (1971) - Available to rent

The Matrix (1999) - Available to rent

Harry Potter (2001-2010) - Available on HBOMax

The Dark Knight (2008) - Available to rent

Wonder Woman (2017) - Available on HBOMax

Sources:

http://www.wrightsound.com/a.movie.sound.html

Warner Bros.: Hollywood’s Ultimate Backdrop by Steven Bingen

Wikipedia

The Warner Brothers Documentary

This week on The Tinsel Factory, the man whose lab would lead to the invention of one of the worlds first motion picture cameras. On two sentence movie reviews: Scream 

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Sources:

The Current War by Adam Cline (2017)

Empires of Light by Jill Jonnes (2014)

American Experience:Thomas Edison (2015, PBS)

Thomas Edison: The Wizard of Menlo Park (1961)

This week on The Tinsel Factory, we wrap up some of the highlights of what happened this year in film. We speculate on some Oscar pics and your host shares some personal news.

Synopsis: This week on The Tinsel Factory, the very genre-d history of Italian Cinema from its infancy to the modern day. Movies: Orphan: First Kill. Support This Podcast: https://anchor.fm/tinselfactorypod Merch: https://shop.spreadshirt.com/the-tinsel-factory/all Venmo: @tinselfactorypod Buy Me a Coffee: buymeacoffee.com/tinselpod Sources: Ezra, Elizabeth. European Cinema. Oxford University Press, USA, 2004.

This week on the Halloween episode of The Tinsel Factory, the true stories behind the Conjuring films. Support This Podcast: https://anchor.fm/tinselfactorypod Merch: https://shop.spreadshirt.com/the-tinsel-factory/all Venmo: @tinselfactorypod Buy Me a Coffee: buymeacoffee.com/tinselpod Sources: Behind the Horror by Dr. Lee Miller (2020) https://www.ctpost.com/projects/2021/visuals/ed-lorraine-warren/ https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/19/obituaries/lorraine-warren-dead.html https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/ex-resident-of-house-debunks-much-of-amityville-horror/ https://www.historyvshollywood.com/reelfaces/conjuring-2-enfield-poltergeist/ https://www.historyvshollywood.com/reelfaces/the-conjuring-3/

This week on The Tinsel Factory, the tragically short life of Jonathan Brandis. We discuss his career, and the situations that led to his untimely death. (Warning, this episode has mentions of suicide and suicide ideations).

On two sentence movie reviews The Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard.

Suicide Hotlines:

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NZ: Free call or text 1737 any time for support from a trained counselor.

Netherlands: 113Online hotline can be reached at 0900 0113

France: 01 45 39 40 00 (24-hour) : suicide prevention helpline.

Please seek help for your mental health loves.

Sources:

Kid90 (2021) dir Soleil Moon Frye

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-04-12-ca-328-story.html

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2003-nov-21-me-brandis21-story.html

https://www.lapdonline.org/newsroom/news_view/20868

https://web.archive.org/web/20040630191156/https://www.usatoday.com/life/2003-11-21-brandis-obit_x.htm

https://people.com/archive/jonathan-brandis-vol-42-no-9/

https://biographypedia.org/the-untold-truth-of-jonathan-brandis-cause-of-death/#Personal_Life

https://www.laweekly.com/jonathan-brandis-how-life-after-teen-stardom-can-take-a-wrong-turn/

http://www.moviejawn.com/home/2019/6/13/the-sudden-death-and-surprising-resurgence-of-jonathan-brandis

https://people.com/archive/a-teen-heartthrob-takes-his-life-vol-60-no-23/

https://hollywoodlife.com/feature/who-is-jonathan-brandis-4347604/

This week on The Tinsel Factory, your host recounts the 1916 New Jersey shark attacks and the sinking of the USS Indianapolis and how these two events inspired the first modern blockbuster, Jaws.

Movie review: Smile

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Behind the Horror by Dr. Lee Miller (2020)

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-shark-attacks-that-were-the-inspiration-for-jaws-15220260/

https://www.nj.com/entertainment/2016/06/100_years_1916_new_jersey_shark_attacks_matawan_ce.html

https://www.historyvshollywood.com/reelfaces/jaws/

This week on The Tinsel Factory, the life of the first king of Hollywood: Douglas Fairbanks

Movie Reviews: Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In

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Sources: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Douglas-Fairbanks 

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/pickford-douglas-fairbanks-1883-1939/

This week on The Tinsel Factory, the life and work of Hollywood’s first lady, Lillian Gish. Movie reviews: You host’s definitive Oscar Best Picture Nominee Ranking. Support This Podcast: https://anchor.fm/tinselfactorypod Merch: https://shop.spreadshirt.com/the-tinsel-factory/all Venmo: @tinselfactorypod Sources: https://books.google.com/books?id=X44SqEVU2r4C&pg=PA187#v=onepage&q&f=false Lillian Gish: An Actors Life For Me

This week on The Tinsel Factory, the complex history of mainland China’s film industry.

On Two Sentence Movie Reviews, Reminiscence.

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youtube.com/watch?v=mpQrcxfNl-o

https://www.trumanlibrary.gov/education/presidential-inquiries/invasion-manchuria

https://www.thedailybeast.com/cannibalism-torture-and-death-inside-chinas-genocidal-re-education-camps

http://www.confuciusinstitute.ac.uk/cinema-china/briefhistory.html

https://www2.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/news-bfi/features/century-chinese-cinema-introduction

This week on The Tinsel Factory, the story of the production of Heaven’s Gate, the film that broke Hollywood. Support This Podcast: https://anchor.fm/tinselfactorypod Merch: https://shop.spreadshirt.com/the-tinsel-factory/all Venmo: @tinselfactorypod Buy Me a Coffee: buymeacoffee.com/tinselpod Sources: https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20151120-heavens-gate-from-hollywood-disaster-to-masterpiece

This week on The Tinsel Factory, the death or Rebecca Schaeffer and reforms that came from her tragic passing.

Movie Reviews: Longlegs

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Sources:

https://www.britannica.com/technology/television-technology 

https://www.history.com/news/how-tv-killed-hollywoods-golden-age# 

This week on The Tinsel Factory, the story of what happens when 330 animators demand the respect of their employer, who use so happened to be one of the most powerful studio heads of all time.

Sources:

Class Struggle in Hollywood: 1930-1950 By Gerald Horne

Working In Hollywood by Ronny Regev

https://cartoonresearch.com/index.php/in-his-own-words-herb-sorrell-and-the-1941-disney-strike/

The Disney Revolt by Jake S. Friedman

This week on The Tinsel Factory we continue our brief history of film starting in WWII all the way to the modern day.

Recommended Viewing: 

Ninotchka (1939): Available for rent on streaming platforms

 I Married a Communist (The Woman on Pier 13) (1949): Available for purchase on Amazon 

The Brave One (1956): Available for viewing on Prime Video and Vudu 

The Crucible (1996): Available for rent on streaming platforms 

The Ten Commandments (1956): Available for rent on streaming platforms

 Ben-Hur (1959): Available for rent on all major platforms 

Seven Samurai (1954): Available on HBOMax 

Roshomon(1950): Available on HBOMax and Prime Video 

Samurai I: (1954): Available on HBOMax 

The Apu Trilogy: (1955-59): Available on HBOMax and Prime Video 

Godzilla: (1954): Available on HBOMax

 The 400 Blows: (1959): Available on HBOMax 

The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951): Available to rent on all streaming platforms

Planet of the Apes (1961): Available to rent on all streaming platforms 

Easy Rider (1969) Available to rent on all streaming platforms

Mean Streets (1973) Available on Netflix

Bonnie and Clyde (1967): Available to rent on all streaming platforms 

Midnight Cowboy (1969): Available on MaxGo 

Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977): Available on Showtime, Hulu, SlingTV, Prime Video 

Star Wars (1977): Available on Disney+ 

Pulp Fiction (1994): Available on Hulu, SlingTV, Starz, Prime Video 

Do the Right Thing (1989): Available to rent on all streaming platforms 

Star Wars Ep: II (2002): Available on Disney+ 

Marvel MCU: (2008-2019): Available on Disney+

 Sources: Wikipedia history.com https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opQC45irmN8&list=PL8dPuuaLjXtN- Bd-H_TGq72CN50Fpv_JX&index=13 https://www.raindance.org/the-history-of-sci-fi-films/ https://newrepublic.com/article/119431/how-digital-cinema-took- over-35mm-film 100 Ideas the Changed Film by David Parkinson https://guides.lib.uw.edu/c.php?g=341346&p=2303736 

This week on The Tinsel Factory, Brazilian cinema from its origins to the modern day.

Movie Reviews: Blue Beetle

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Sources:

https://offscreen.com/view/intro_braziliancinema

https://www.connectbrazil.com/brazils-cinema/

This week on The Tinsel Factory, the history of Columbia Pictures.

Movie Reviews: Triangle of Sadness & Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/business/1988/08/02/columbia-to-buy-most-of-roths-local-theaters/c43d4835-63eb-4919-abb4-9cf186ba724c/

https://www.encyclopedia.com/books/politics-and-business-magazines/columbia-pictures-entertainment-inc

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0169902/?ref_=nmbio_trv_1

https://www.cinema.ucla.edu/collections/columbia-pictures

https://avid.miraheze.org/wiki/Columbia_Pictures

This week on The Tinsel Factory, we discuss two woman whom dared to take on their film studios. What happened, and what does this mean for the future of cinema? On two sentence movie reviews: Ghostbusters: Afterlife. Support This Podcast: https://anchor.fm/tinselfactorypod Merch: https://shop.spreadshirt.com/the-tinsel-factory/all Venmo: @tinselfactorypod Sources: https://variety.com/2020/film/news/olivia-de-havilland-lawsuit-gone-with-the-wind-warner-bros-1234717146/ https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/hollywood-flashback-olivia-de-havilland-went-war-warner-bros-won-1304966/ https://www.reuters.com/article/industry-lawsuit-dc/de-havilland-lawsuit-resonates-through-hollywood-idUSN2329585820070824 https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2020/07/olivia-de-havilland/608851/ https://ps.extremereach.com/blog/what-are-residuals-in-film-and-tv-production/ https://www.theverge.com/2021/8/23/22638553/disney-black-widow-lawsuit-arbitration-motion-scarlett-johansson https://www.jukolart.us/independent-producers/net-profits-1.html https://www.ft.com/content/1550ed57-047f-46dd-a9a0-121406199076

This week on The Tinsel Factory, a look at the films of 1962.

Movie Reviews: To Kill a Tiger, Robot Dreams, and The Boy and the Heron

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Sources:

Cinema ’62 by Stephen Farber and Michael McClellan

https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1963

This week on The Tinsel Factory, how sound changed the film industry.

Movie Reviews:  A Quiet Place: Day One and MaXXXine

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https://blog.scienceandmediamuseum.org.uk/brief-history-of-sound-in-film/ 

This week on the Tinsel Factory - what the hell is gonna happen at the 93rd Academy Awards? What are producers doing to do get people to watch the ceremony? We go into everything we know so far. Katelyn also gives some of her Oscars picks (she saw EVERYTHING). On two sentence movie reviews that I saw in a movie theatre: The Father and In the Woods. Sources: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-oscars/oscars-delayed-to-april-due-to-movie-industry-coronavirus-chaos-idUSKBN23M2Q0 https://variety.com/2021/film/awards/glenn-weiss-oscars-director-2021-1234934572/ https://www.oscars.org/news https://variety.com/2021/awards/news/oscars-covid-safe-ceremony-details-1234932452/ https://variety.com/2021/film/news/oscars-academy-awards-ceremony-london-satellite-1234940424/ https://variety.com/2021/awards/awards/oscars-ceremony-nominees-guests-presenters-1234931353/ https://variety.com/2021/film/news/oscars-zoom-backlash-ceremony-1234937105/ https://variety.com/2021/film/news/oscars-zoom-backlash-ceremony-1234937105/

These week on the 2020 finale of The Tinsel Factory, we’re covering 2020 - what happened and what didn’t.

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This week on The Tinsel Factory, the life and loves of Marilyn Monroe. We cover her life as a young woman in the foster system to her days as an international superstar as well as the men she loved throughout her life. Support This Podcast: https://anchor.fm/tinselfactorypod Merch: https://shop.spreadshirt.com/the-tinsel-factory/all Sources: https://web.archive.org/web/20090715081905/http://www.immortalmarilyn.com/MarilynPhotographerConover.html https://www.townandcountrymag.com/society/money-and-power/a31026706/john-f-kennedy-marilyn-monroe-happy-birthday-song-true-story/ https://www.biography.com/news/marilyn-monroe-joe-dimaggio-relationship https://www.biography.com/news/marilyn-monroe-arthur-miller-relationship

This week on The Tinsel Factory we’re covering the histories of The Mummy and The Invisible Man. As a bonus, we’re covering a little bit about Jack Pierce. 

Recommended Viewing 

The Mummy (1932) - Available on Peacock 

The Mummy(1959) - Available on HBOMax The Mummy (1999) - Available on MaxGo 

The Invisible Man (1933) - Available on Peacock H

ollow Man (2000) - Available on Sling & FUBOTV

 The Invisible Man (2020) - Available on HBOMax 

Sources: Wikipedia Sparknotes Mummy Dearest - Universal Home Video Doc The Invisible Man Revealed - Universal Home Video Doc

This week on The Tinsel Factory, a look into the history and style of Spaghetti Westerns.

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Sources:

The Story of Film, (2011) by Mark Cousins

A Short History of the Movies (2011) by Gerard Mast & Bruce F Kawin

https://www.studiobinder.com/blog/what-is-a-spaghetti-western-definition/

This week we’re covering the history of MGM studios.

Recommended Viewing:

Ben Hur (1925) - Available to rent

The Broadway Melody (1929) - Available to rent

The Grand Hotel (1932) - Available to rent

Romeo and Juliet (1936) - Available to rent

Saratoga (1937) - Available to rent

Andy Hardy Series (1937-1958) - Available to Rent

Gone With the Wind (1939) - Available on HBOMax

Wizard of Oz (1939) - Available on HBOMax

The Women (1939) - Available to rent

Meet Me in St. Louis (1944) - Available to rent

Anchors Aweigh (1945) - Available to rent

An American in Paris (1951) - Available on HBOMax

Singing’ in the Rain (1952) - Available on HBOMax

Gigi (1958) - Available to rent

North by Northwest (1959) - Available on HBOMax

Ben-Hur (1959) - Available to rent

Doctor Zhivago (1965) - Available on HBOMax

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) - Available on HBOMax

Network (1976) - Available on Sling TV

Rocky (1976) - Available on fuboTV and Philo

Poltergeist (1982) - Available on Netflix

Skyfall (2009) -Available to rent

Cabin in the Woods (2011) - Available on Hulu

Sources:

Wikipedia

MGM: History of the Movies

This week on The Tinsel Factory, the history of french cinema from the Lumiere Brothers to modern day. Movies: Bullet Train Support This Podcast: https://anchor.fm/tinselfactorypod Merch: https://shop.spreadshirt.com/the-tinsel-factory/all Venmo: @tinselfactorypod Buy Me a Coffee: buymeacoffee.com/tinselpod Sources: http://www.frenchfilms.org/french-cinema-history.html https://www.masterclass.com/articles/french-new-wave-guide#quiz-0 https://www.theguardian.com/film/2011/mar/22/french-cinema-short-history Ezra, Elizabeth. European Cinema. Oxford University Press, USA, 2004.

This week on The Tinsel Factory, the failed production of Dune directed by Alejandro Jodorowsky.

Movie Reviews: Creed III

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Sources:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/01/13/opinion/jodorowsky-dune-ai-tron.html

https://www.cbr.com/jodorowsky-dune-book-3-million-auction/

https://www.christies.com/lot/lot-6345488

youtube.com/watch?v=2-nntkHOkGw&t=29s

Music: youtube.com/watch?v=TSn13u4HDkE White Bat Audio

This week on The Tinsel Factory, the history and responsibilities of the Cinematographer/Director of Photography.

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Types of Lights: https://www.cined.com/common-types-of-film-lights/

Aspect Ratio: https://www.studiobinder.com/blog/what-is-aspect-ratio-definition/

Sources:

www.skillshare.com/en/blog/a-brief-history-of-cinematography-for-todays-creatives/

https://www.masterclass.com/articles/film-101-what-is-cinematography-and-what-does-a-cinematographer-do

https://www.americahousekyiv.org/ah-blog/2021/9/3/american-cinematography-through-the-ages

https://thinkbrandedmedia.com/lights-camera-action-the-history-of-cinematography/

https://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Cinematography#History

This week on The Tinsel Factory, a brief look into modern journalism.

 

Movie Reviews: Wicked

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This week on The Tinsel Factory, the life of Elizabeth Short, and the circumstances that led to her being known better as The Black Dahlia. On two sentence movie reviews, In the Heights. Support This Podcast: https://anchor.fm/tinselfactorypod Merch: https://shop.spreadshirt.com/the-tinsel-factory/all Venmo: @tinselfactorypod Sources: Dahlia: The Story of America’s Most Gruesome Murder, (2017) By Roger Harrington youtube.com/watch?v=YCnFYvL17v4

This week on The Tinsel Factory, we look into Hollywood unions, as well as the reasons for the current WGA strike.

Movie Reviews: Evil Dead Rise, The Pope's Exorcist, Guardians of the Galaxy vol. 3

Sources:

https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2014/02/secret-oscar-history

Class Struggle in Hollywood: 1930-1950 By Gerald Horne

Working In Hollywood by Ronny Regev

https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2011/11/what-reagan-did-for-hollywood/248391/

https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2011/11/what-reagan-did-for-hollywood/248391/

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1987-07-15-mn-2479-story.html

https://archive.org/details/motionpictureher122unse/page/62/mode/2up

https://www.sagaftra.org/about/our-history/1930s 

This week on The Tinsel Factory, the life and tragic death of Jayne Mansfield.

Movie Review: It Lives Inside

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Sources:

youtube.com/watch?v=vHtQ0nRGCi8&t=30s 

This week, we’re covering the history of Frankenstein’s Monster (with a visit from his Bride) We’re also covering Boris Karloff and James Whale. 

Recommended Viewing: 

Frankenstein (1910) - www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-fM9meqfQ4 

Frankenstein (1931) - Available on Peacock 

Bride of Frankenstein (1935) - Available on Peacock 

Son of Frankenstein (1939) - Available on Peacock 

The Ghost of Frankenstein (1942) - Available on Peacock 

Frankenstein Meets the Wolfman (1943) - Available on Peacock

 The House of Frankenstein (1944) - Available on Peacock 

House of Dracula (1944) - Available on Peacock 

Abbot and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948) - Available on Peacock 

The Curse of Frankenstein (1957) - Available on HBOMax

 Young Frankenstein (1974) - Available on Starz and Amazon Prime 

Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) - Available on Hulu 

Gods and Monsters (1998) - Available on Amazon Prime 

Sources: Wikipedia The Frankenstein Files: Available on Universal Home Video She’s Alive - Creating the Bride of Frankenstein: Available on Universal Home Video https://www.spookyisles.com/the-horror-film-hiatus-of-1936-1938/

This week on The Tinsel Factory, the 2022 finale.

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Break 1 music: .youtube.com/watch?v=tmkxlN115CM&list=PL7pkSK1xbGD57HJ-SjRi_0W6irguXY3v9

This week on The Tinsel Factory, the strange case of Roland Doe, and how it inspired the scariest film ever made, The Exorcist. Movies: Moonage Daydream Support This Podcast: https://anchor.fm/tinselfactorypod Merch: https://shop.spreadshirt.com/the-tinsel-factory/all Venmo: @tinselfactorypod Buy Me a Coffee: buymeacoffee.com/tinselpod Sources: Behind the Horror by Dr. Lee Miller (2020) https://nypost.com/2021/12/20/is-the-exorcist-a-true-story-what-happened-to-ronald-hunkeler/ Possession 1993 MUSIC: “The Razing of Heaven” Composed by Joseph Earwicker

This week The Tinsel Factory, we’re delving into the the crazy sc-ifi time traveling world of the independent film Donnie Darko and its journey into cult classic status.

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Sources:

https://screenrant.com/donnie-darko-behind-the-scenes/

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/cult-donnie-darko-303185.html

https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/donnie-darko-20-years-of-richard-kellys-enigmatic-cult-classic/

https://qz.com/946431/donnie-darko-director-richard-kelly-explains-the-cult-classics-appeal-jake-gyllenhall-and-the-new-4k-theatrical-release/

https://www.wired.com/2017/04/geeks-guide-donnie-darko/

https://www.denofgeek.com/movies/donnie-darko-the-enduring-legacy-of-a-cult-classic/

https://qz.com/946431/donnie-darko-director-richard-kelly-explains-the-cult-classics-appeal-jake-gyllenhall-and-the-new-4k-theatrical-release/

This week on The Tinsel Factory, the death of Rebecca Schaeffer and reforms that came from her murder Movie Reviews: Inside Out 2 Support This Podcast: https://anchor.fm/tinselfactorypod  Merch: https://shop.spreadshirt.com/the-tinsel-factory/all Venmo: @tinselfactorypod Buy Me a Coffee: buymeacoffee.com/tinselpod Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/tinselfactory/ Sources: https://www.pressreader.com/australia/who/20170612/283154313618435 https://www.popsugar.com/celebrity/famous-hollywood-murders-42384794  youtube.com/watch?v=GzXWO76E69g 

This week on The Tinsel Factory, the events surrounding Hollywood’s Black Friday. 

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Sources:

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/black-friday-hollywood-in-1945-1235021178/ 

https://laist.com/news/la-history/hollywood-strike-1945-unions-iatse-bloody-friday 

Class Struggle in Hollywood: 1930-1950 By Gerald Horne

Working In Hollywood by Ronny Regev

This week on The Tinsel Factory, the disappearance of actress Jean Spangler and the theories as to what happened to her.  Movie Reviews: In a Violent Nature Support This Podcast: https://anchor.fm/tinselfactorypod  Merch: https://shop.spreadshirt.com/the-tinsel-factory/all Venmo: @tinselfactorypod Buy Me a Coffee: buymeacoffee.com/tinselpod Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/tinselfactory/ Sources: https://allthatsinteresting.com/jean-spangler  https://ew.com/celebrity/true-crime-jean-spangler-unsolved-disappearance/  https://web.archive.org/web/20161212142616/http://articles.latimes.com/2002/oct/20/local/me-then20  https://ladailymirror.com/2021/12/24/black-dahlia-steve-hodels-many-lies-about-his-father-dr-george-hodel/ 

This week on The Tinsel Factory, we cover the feud between Marlon Brando and Frank Sinatra on the set of Guys and Dolls.

On Two Sentence Movie Reviews, Pig.

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Sources:

https://whatculture.com/film/10-famous-actor-pairings-didnt-realise-hated-one-another-real-life?page=7

https://www.tvovermind.com/heres-what-frank-sinatra-really-thought-of-marlon-brando/

https://thelifeandtimesofhollywood.com/why-is-guys-dolls-forgotten-even-starring-frank-sinatra-and-marlon-brando/

This week on The Tinsel Factory, the Clara Bow month finale.

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This week on The Tinsel Factory, the life of Sessue Hayakawa.

Movie Reviews: Trap

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Sources:

http://goldsea.com/Personalities/Hayakawas/hayakawas.html 

http://dr-yokai.blogspot.com/2011/09/sessue-hayakawa-japanese-star-of.html

youtube.com/watch?v=qJCvAdJt_9w 

This week on The Tinsel Factory, the chaotic story of the production for Ishtar. What happened, and did the film deserve the hate it was given upon its release? Support This Podcast: https://anchor.fm/tinselfactorypod Merch: https://shop.spreadshirt.com/the-tinsel-factory/all Venmo: @tinselfactorypod Buy Me a Coffee: buymeacoffee.com/tinselpod Sources: https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2010/02/ishtar-excerpt-201002

This week on the Tinsel Factory we kick off a month of murders that rocked Hollywood to its core. This week we cover the Tate/LaBianca murders and the effect they had on a once care free Tinseltown.

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Sources:

Helter Skelter by Victor Bugliosi

Truth and Lies: The Family Manson

https://www.vox.com/culture/2019/8/8/20707915/joan-didion-sharon-tate-manson-white-album

https://www.wmagazine.com/story/joan-didion-manson-trials-dress/

https://www.independent.ie/entertainment/movies/how-the-manson-murders-killed-off-old-hollywood-38029485.html

https://themansonfamily-mtts.medium.com/the-teen-who-escaped-helter-skelter-4598a7382d3d

This week on The Tinsel Factory, we cover the life and murder of Sal Mineo, a talented actor who’s life was cut tragically short in a West Hollywood alley at the age of 37.

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Sources

https://web.archive.org/web/20080528175531/http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/notorious_murders/celebrity/sal_mineo/5.html

https://www.biography.com/actor/sal-mineo

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/features/investigation-murder-sal-mineo-1169880

Sal Mineo: A Biography by Michael Michaud

This week on The Tinsel Factory, the disastrous production of The Twilight Zone film. Movie Reviews:Monkey Man Support This Podcast: https://anchor.fm/tinselfactorypod  Merch: https://shop.spreadshirt.com/the-tinsel-factory/all Venmo: @tinselfactorypod Buy Me a Coffee: buymeacoffee.com/tinselpod Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/tinselfactory/ Sources: youtube.com/watch?v=xZHjTqJSSak  youtube.com/watch?v=IQVOV4eudZw  https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-08-28-tm-1446-story.html 

This week on The Tinsel Factory, the birth of Alan Smithee and the production of Death of a Gunfighter.

Movie Reviews:Late Night with the Devil and Immaculate

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Sources:

https://variety.com/1995/scene/people-news/robert-totten-99124835/

https://trailersfromhell.com/death-of-a-gunfighter/

youtube.com/watch?v=xX2bmwyB_zw

This week on The Tinsel Factory, a history of the Alien Franchise. 

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Sources:

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/leprechaun-new-movie-in-the-works-1235510562/

https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/leprechaun-film-series-oral-history

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/leprechaun-new-movie-in-the-works-1235510562/

This week on The Tinsel Factory, ghostly tales of dearly departed performers whom are believed to still haunt the town that made or broke their dreams.

Movie Reviews: Talk to Me

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Sources:

http://www.discoverlosangeles.com/blog/hollywood-roosevelt-hotel-story-la-icon

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/haunted-locations-los-angeles-hollywood-645040/

https://laghosttour.com/hollywood-roosevelt-hotel/

https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2014/10/hollywood-sign-haunted

youtube.com/watch?v=Vj1XW-636TI

Episodes:

Walt Disney: https://spotifyanchor-web.app.link/e/tOe4xYpysBb

Marilyn Monroe: https://spotifyanchor-web.app.link/e/7UMAKttysBb

Sharon Tate: https://spotifyanchor-web.app.link/e/fL9NystysBb

Peg Entwistle: https://spotifyanchor-web.app.link/e/qoFtOINCsBb 

Joan Crawford: https://spotifyanchor-web.app.link/e/jnSHOGNCsBb

Thelma Todd: https://spotifyanchor-web.app.link/e/I5N0EMeEsBb 

Stage 28: https://spotifyanchor-web.app.link/e/SWL2rLxGsBb 

Rudolph Valentino: https://spotifyanchor-web.app.link/e/joeDXIxGsBb 

This week on The Tinsel Factory, the troubled history of German history from it’s origins, its regimes, and its major movements. Support This Podcast: https://anchor.fm/tinselfactorypod Merch: https://shop.spreadshirt.com/the-tinsel-factory/all Venmo: @tinselfactorypod Buy Me a Coffee: buymeacoffee.com/tinselpod Sources: https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-i/league-of-nations https://encyclopedia.1914-1918-online.net/article/filmcinema_germany Ezra, Elizabeth. European Cinema. Oxford University Press, USA, 2004.

This week on The Tinsel Factory, we look into the background of a series of films that are believed to be cursed. Movie Reviews: Haunted Mansion Support This Podcast: https://anchor.fm/tinselfactorypod  Merch: https://shop.spreadshirt.com/the-tinsel-factory/all Venmo: @tinselfactorypod Buy Me a Coffee: buymeacoffee.com/tinselpod Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/tinselfactory/ Sources: https://collider.com/was-the-exorcist-cursed/ https://www.thewrap.com/13-cursed-movies-friday-13th-poltergeist-crow/ https://www.horrorbound.net/blog/2019/2/12/the-curse-of-atuk https://www.biography.com/movies-tv/the-poltergeist-curse-its-heeere

This week on The Tinsel Factory, a brief look into the history of Canadian Cinema. 

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Sources:

https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/the-history-of-film-in-canada

https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/the-cinema-of-quebec

This week on the show, the history of the greatest bloodsucker of all time, Dracula.  We’re also covering the man whom played him: Bela Lugosi 

Recommended Viewing: 

Nosferatu (1922) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FC6jFoYm3xs 

Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IP0KB2XC29o 

Dracula (1931) - Available on Peacock 

Abbot and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948) - Available on Peacock 

Dracula (1979) - Available on Starz, Sling TV, Amazon Prime 

Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOTLurSgkYU 

Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992) - Available on AMC, Sling TV, Amazon Prime, and Philo 

Dracula: Dead and Loving It (1995) - Available to rent 

Dracula Untold (2014) - Available to rent 

Sources:  Wikipedia  https://www.infoplease.com/culture-entertainment/mythology-folklore/terrifying-truth-about-dracula  https://www.livescience.com/40843-real-dracula-vlad-the-impaler.html  http://www.ucs.mun.ca/~emiller/vlad_the_impaler.html  https://theculturetrip.com/europe/romania/articles/the-legends-and-myths-of-transylvania/  The Road to Dracula: released on Universal Home Video http://thedigitalbits.com/columns/history-legacy-showmanship/coppola-dracula-25th https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/dracula/summary/

This week, how did Walt's Disneyland effect his movie studio? Find out this week on The Tinsel Factory! Support the Podcast: https://anchor.fm/tinselfactorypod 

Recommended Viewing: 40 Pounds of Trouble (1962) - youtube.com/watch?v=heVLBvPxQus 

Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl (2003) -Available on Disney+ 

Saving Mr. Banks (2013) - Available on Disney+ 

Tomorrowland (2015) - Available on TBS or TNT 

The Imagineer Story (2019) - Available on Disney+ 

Sources: http://www.waltsapartment.com/walts-first-vision-of-disneyland/ Wikipedia https://touringplans.com/blog/2018/02/10/s6_movieswdw/ https://www.adayinlatours.com/blog/the-history-of-disneyland/ https://disneyparks.disney.go.com/blog/2013/12/recreating-1961-disneyland-for-saving-mr-banks/

This week on The Tinsel Factory, the death of Marilyn Monroe and the major conspiracy theories that have persisted surrounding the event since 1962. Movie Reviews: Furiosa Support This Podcast: https://anchor.fm/tinselfactorypod  Merch: https://shop.spreadshirt.com/the-tinsel-factory/all Venmo: @tinselfactorypod Buy Me a Coffee: buymeacoffee.com/tinselpod Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/tinselfactory/  Sources: https://variety.com/2022/tv/global/marilyn-monroe-documentary-charles-stanley-gifford-mediawan-1235222789/ https://www.britannica.com/biography/Marilyn-Monroe  https://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2010/11/marilyn-monroe-201011  https://people.com/politics/marilyn-monroe-affair-john-f-kennedy-robert-f-kennedy/  Marilyn Monroe: The Biography by Donald Spoto  Goddess: The Secret Lives of Marilyn Monroe by Anthony Summers The Life and Curious Death of Marilyn Monroe by Robert F. Saltzer  The Assassination of Marilyn Monroe by Donald H. Wolfe

This week on the Tinsel Factory, we’re discussing the 1918 Spanish Flu and its affects on the American motion picture business. We also discuss what we can learn from the Spanish Flu when dealing with COVID-19 and what the future of the film industry and movie exhibition might be. 

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Sources: Wikipedia https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/vsushistorical/mortstatsh_1918.pdf https://deadline.com/2020/04/hollywood-coronavirus-impact-spanish-flu-history-lessons-william-mann-interview-1202899630/ https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/how-1918-flu-halted-hollywood-1286640 https://www.cdc.gov/flu/pandemic-resources/1918-pandemic-h1n1.html https://theconversation.com/hollywood-is-creating-a-void-like-the-one-that-permanently-stunted-european-film-after-spanish-flu-147591 https://www.marketplace.org/2020/11/19/how-the-spanish-flu-contributed-to-the-rise-of-hollywood/

This week on The Tinsel Factory, the life and work of Hollywood’s first sex symbol, Theda Bara. Movie reviews: CODA Support This Podcast: https://anchor.fm/tinselfactorypod Merch: https://shop.spreadshirt.com/the-tinsel-factory/all Venmo: @tinselfactorypod Sources: https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/theda-bara The Woman with the Hungry Eyes, 2006

This week on The Tinsel Factory, a brief history of Spanish

cinema.

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Sources:

https://vamospanish.com/discover/spanish-and-the-cinema-a-

filmic-journey/

https://www.enforex.com/culture/spanish-films.html

https://www.latinolife.co.uk/articles/things-you-should-know-

about-spanish-cinema

https://www.sjsu.edu/people/drew.todd/courses/c3/s0/lamovida.pdf

Music: youtube.com/watch?v=PRwkE78fqtY

This week on The Tinsel Factory, the basics of film preservation and restoration.

Movie Reviews: The Hunger Games: A Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

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Sources:

https://www.loc.gov/programs/national-film-preservation-board/preservation-research/film-preservation-study/current-state-of-american-film-preservation-study/ 

https://www.nfsa.gov.au/preservation/preservation-glossary/vinegar-syndrome

https://www.sciencehistory.org/stories/magazine/saving-old-movies/

https://www.filmpreservation.org/about/why-the-nfpf-was-created

https://www.infobae.com/en/2022/03/24/cineteca-nacional-40-years-after-the-great-fire-that-consumed-the-site-and-part-of-its-collection-disappeared/

National Film Registry: https://www.loc.gov/programs/national-film-preservation-board/film-registry/ 

Song: youtube.com/watch?v=UWtmW7tejrI&list=PLIEL-vb259Pt9tki4iNEe0oiBpRfrEmc4 

This week on The Tinsel Factory, the life of Hattie McDaniel and her struggles between being a working actress and the parts she was forced to play.

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Sources:

youtube.com/watch?v=xtUO0n08k4A

This week on The Tinsel Factory, we cover the legendary feud between two of Hollywood’s most iconic figures: Joan Crawford and Bette Davis. On Two Sentence Movie Reviews, The Birdcage and Two Lane Blacktop. Support This Podcast: https://anchor.fm/tinselfactorypod Merch: https://shop.spreadshirt.com/the-tinsel-factory/all Venmo: @tinselfactorypod Sources: https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/bette-davis-react-joan-crawford-death-was-jaw-dropping.html/ https://black-and-white-movies.com/bette-davis-and-joan-crawford/ https://www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/film-tv/a20666/feud-bette-davis-joan-crawford-timeline/

This week on The Tinsel Factory, the life of Oscar Micheaux and the world around him that called him to filmmaking.

Movie reviews: Jackass Forever and Moonfall.

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Sources:

https://naacp.org/find-resources/history-explained/civil-rights-leaders/oscar-micheaux

https://rrchnm.org/episodes/the-birth-of-a-nation-and-black-protest/

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Oscar-Micheaux

This week on the Tinsel Factory, we’re covering the mysterious death of Thomas Ince, was the movie producer murdered, or was something more nefarious afoot?

Also this week, Katelyn went to a movie theatre for the first time in 1 year and eleven days (yes she counted). What is a movie going experience like in the COVID times? All of this on this week's The Tinsel Factory!

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Sources:

https://www.newenglandhistoricalsociety.com/mysterious-death-newport-movie-mogul-thomas-ince/

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/films/2018/02/27/unsolved-mysterious-hollywood-deaths/thomas-h-ince/

Synopsis:

This week on The Tinsel Factory, A Brief History of Animated Feature films - A Supplemental Episode to the First two episodes of this podcasts. We’re doing a speed run from ancient cave paintings to 3D animated films.

Also this week, a brief discussion on this years Academy Awards.

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Sources:

http://nautil.us/issue/11/light/early-humans-made-animated-art

The World History of Animation by Stephen Cavalier

This week on The Tinsel Factory, the invention of home video. Movie Reviews: Twisters Support This Podcast: https://anchor.fm/tinselfactorypod  Merch: https://shop.spreadshirt.com/the-tinsel-factory/all Venmo: @tinselfactorypod Buy Me a Coffee: buymeacoffee.com/tinselpod Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/tinselfactory/ Sources: https://www.mediacollege.com/video/format/compare/betamax-vhs.html  https://legacybox.com/blogs/analog/vhs-beat-betamax 

This week on The Tinsel Factory, we compare the life of 16th President of the United States Abraham Lincoln

On two sentence movie reviews: Spencer and House of Gucci.

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Sources:

https://www.biography.com/us-president/abraham-lincoln

https://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2013/02/mississippi-officially-abolishes-slavery-ratifies-13th-amendment

https://www.mic.com/articles/26646/lincoln-movie-review-10-ways-it-distorts-history

https://www.thedailybeast.com/whats-true-and-false-in-lincoln-movie?ref=scroll

https://slate.com/culture/2012/11/lincoln-historical-accuracy-sorting-fact-from-fiction-in-the-steven-spielberg-movie.html

https://slate.com/culture/2012/11/lincoln-historical-accuracy-sorting-fact-from-fiction-in-the-steven-spielberg-movie.html

This week on The Tinsel Factory, the life and tragic death of Peg Entwistle, the 24-year-old actress whose life ended atop the Hollywoodland Sign. On two sentence movie reviews, Cruella, A Quiet Place II, and The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It. Support This Podcast: https://anchor.fm/tinselfactorypod Merch: https://shop.spreadshirt.com/the-tinsel-factory/all  Venmo: @tinselfactorypod Sources: Peg Entwistle and the Hollywood Sign Suicide by James Zeruk Jr. https://www.nytimes.com/1932/09/20/archives/peg-entwistle-dies-in-hollywood-leap-actress-ends-life-by-jumping.html https://www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/film-tv/a32404793/who-is-peg-entwistle-hollywood-facts/

This week on The Tinsel Factory, the mysterious death of Thelma Todd, was she the victim of a drunken misadventure, or could someone have killed her? Support This Podcast: https://anchor.fm/tinselfactorypod Merch: https://shop.spreadshirt.com/the-tinsel-factory/all Venmo: @tinselfactorypod Sources: https://web.archive.org/web/20200815170955/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2002-may-29-et-welkos29-story.html https://web.archive.org/web/20181004182956/https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1991-05-05-9102090725-story.html https://www.newspapers.com/clip/26940058/wisconsin-state-journal/ Music: Darren Curtis

This week on The Tinsel Factory, we cover the friendlies, those whom accused their colleagues of being communists. Some did it for patriotic pride, others to save their own skins, but what happens when you betray your friends and coworkers? Support This Podcast: https://anchor.fm/tinselfactorypod Merch: https://shop.spreadshirt.com/the-tinsel-factory/all Venmo: @tinselfactorypod Buy Me a Coffee: buymeacoffee.com/tinselpod Sources: youtube.com/watch?v=g4jlaJph-cI&t=1947s https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/black-friday-hollywood-in-1945-1235021178/ Show Trial. 2018. Hollywood on Trial. 1976. dir David Helpurn https://confluence.gallatin.nyu.edu/sections/research/disney-and-the-cold-war https://www.reaganfoundation.org/media/51313/red-scare.pdf https://alphahistory.com/coldwar/ronald-reagan-testifies-huac-1947/ https://historycollection.com/this-hollywoods-witch-hunt-created-a-celebrity-blacklist/3/

Synopsis: This week The Tinsel Factory, we cover the history of Michael Meyers and the Halloween franchise. On Two Sentence Movie Reviews, The Eyes of Tammy Faye. Support This Podcast: https://anchor.fm/tinselfactorypod Merch: https://shop.spreadshirt.com/the-tinsel-factory/all Venmo: @tinselfactorypod

This week on The Tinsel Factory, we off on the road to the lives and careers of Bob Hope and Bing Crosby. 

Movie Reviews: Dirty Dancing (1987)

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Sources:

https://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/bing-crosby-and-bob-hopes-road-pictures/17321/

https://oldmovieteams.org/about/bob-hope-bing-crosby/ 

American Masters: Bing Crosby: Rediscovered, 2014

American Masters: This is Bob Hope, 2017

Breaks:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53hGjaGpRkw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIDQQiJnmnQ

This week on The Tinsel Factory, we cover the life and careers of everybody’s favorite OG stoners - Tommy Chong and Richard Cheech Marin.

Movie Reviews: No Hard Feelings

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Sources:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4302492/How-friendship-Cheech-Chong-went-smoke.html 

https://calgaryherald.com/entertainment/local-arts/tommy-chong-talks-comedy-pot-politics-and-his-days-as-a-calgary-herald-paper-boy

https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-features/cheech-and-chong-on-40-years-of-up-in-smoke-real-life-drove-everything-629983/ 

 https://www.grunge.com/374365/this-is-how-cheech-and-chong-met/ 

This week on The Tinsel Factory, a brief history of Latin representation in Hollywood.

Movie Reviews: Oldboy (2003)

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Sources:

Viva Hollywood by Luis I. Reyes (2022)

https://www.allisonmichellemorris.com/post/history-hispanic-latinx-representation

This week on The Tinsel Factory, we cover the unfriendlies, those whom would eventually be blacklisted from ever working in Hollywood again Support This Podcast: https://anchor.fm/tinselfactorypod Merch: https://shop.spreadshirt.com/the-tinsel-factory/all Venmo: @tinselfactorypod Buy Me a Coffee: buymeacoffee.com/tinselpod Sources: youtube.com/watch?v=g4jlaJph-cI&t=1947s https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/black-friday-hollywood-in-1945-1235021178/ Show Trial. 2018. Hollywood on Trial. 1976. dir David Helpurn https://confluence.gallatin.nyu.edu/sections/research/disney-and-the-cold-war https://www.reaganfoundation.org/media/51313/red-scare.pdf https://alphahistory.com/coldwar/ronald-reagan-testifies-huac-1947/ https://historycollection.com/this-hollywoods-witch-hunt-created-a-celebrity-blacklist/3/ https://www.encyclopedia.com/law/law-magazines/hollywood-ten-trials-1948-50

This week on The Tinsel Factory, a brief history of Russian cinema. 

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Sources:

youtube.com/watch?v=NtnTs90knro 

https://www.festival-cannes.com/en/2011/the-history-of-russian-cinema/ 

https://www.tate.org.uk/art/art-terms/s/socialist-realism 

This week on The Tinsel Factory, the  story of the attempted production of the Superman film that never was - Superman Lives.

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Sources:

https://collider.com/superman-nicolas-cage-tim-burton-movie-history-explained/

https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-features/nicolas-cage-unbeareble-weight-of-massive-talent-interview-1335766/

The Death of Superman Lives: What Happened? 2015. Dir. Jon Schnapp

Song: Composed by Adam Monroe/Adam Kopcinski.

http://www.adammonroemusic.com

This week on The Tinsel Factory, the thirty year saga behind the making of Terry Gilliam's The Man Who Killed Don Quixote.

Movie Reviews: Top Gun: Maverick

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Sources:

Lost in La Mancha - 2002

This week on The Tinsel Factory, we go into the history of acting and everything in between.

Movie Reviews: Cocaine Bear

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Sources:

youtube.com/watch?v=CfPz1c07IsQ

https://uark.pressbooks.pub/movingpictures/chapter/acting/

https://uark.pressbooks.pub/movingpictures/chapter/acting/

Welcome to The Tinsel Factory! This week, we’re going through a speed run from the origin of film up to the late 1940’s. (I get way more confident as time goes by)   Recommended Viewing: Library of Congress:  Edison Films: www.youtube.com/watch?v=daKHH7AdN8U&list=PLD28424FAA9414F49  Lumiere Films: www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nj0vEO4Q6s  Trip to the Moon (1902): www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNAHcMMOHE8  Great Tain Robbery (1903): www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3jrB5ANUUYn  Birth of a Nation (1915): www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebtiJH3EOHo  The Toll of the Sea (1922): www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNPAB0biktc  The Jazz Singer (1927): Available to rent on major platforms  Snow White and the Seven Dwarves (1937): Available on Disney+ Singin’ in the Rain (1952): Available on HBOMax  Triumph of the Will (1935): Available to rent on Prime Video WARNING: This is a Nazi propaganda documentary  The Great Dictator (1940): Available on HBOMax  Casablanca (1942): Available on HBOMax  Millions Like Us (1943): www.youtube.com/watch?v=assxbzB7P0Y  The Best Years of Our Lives (1946): Available to rent on iTunes or Prime Video Sources: Wikipedia - of course Birth Movies Death southtree.com https://www.bestmoviesbyfarr.com/articles/movies-from-the-great-depression/2015/06 Encyclopedia Britannica https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRheZ_MUYiY Film History: An Introduction, Second Edition, by Kristin Thompson and David Bordwell https://www.empireonline.com/movies/features/movie-moments/ TCM’s A History of Movies

This week on The Tinsel Factory, a history of the Hellraiser Franchise

Movie Reviews:Saturday Night

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Sources:

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/oct/30/how-we-made-hellraiser-horror-film-pinhead-clive-barker

https://www.loudersound.com/features/hellraiser-story-behind-horror-movie 

https://bloody-disgusting.com/editorials/3731740/hellraiser-inferno-revisiting-scott-derrickson-underrated-sequel/

What is a Film Director? How can I become one? Where did the role originate? All this and more will be answered on this week’s episode of The Tinsel Factory! SupportThis Podcast: https://anchor.fm/tinselfactorypod Merch: https://shop.spreadshirt.com/the-tinsel-factory/all Sources: https://www.britannica.com/art/directing#ref30029 https://www.studiobinder.com/blog/what-does-a-director-do/ https://womenintvfilm.sdsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/2019_Celluloid_Ceiling_Report.pdf https://www.statista.com/statistics/696871/movie-director-gender/ youtube.com/watch?v=q0a47HRCrmQ

This week on The Tinsel Factory, we’re going over the history of Paramount Pictures.

Recommended Viewing:

The Squaw Man (1914) www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqUUo3Ae_oU

Cinderella (1914) www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwLZ6QK0mo0

A Little Princess (1917) www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBCsD7xnNVU

The Shiek (1921) www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDaRentuB7g

The Ten Commandments (1923)www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrugGzGaFqg

Wings (1927) Available to rent on streaming platforms

Underworld (1927)www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgwLtthHARE

Morocco (1930) Available on Peacock

The Smiling Lieutenant (1931) www.dailymotion.com/video/x24084w

Road to Morocco (1942) Available to rent on major platforms

Going My Way (1944) Available on Peacock

The Lost Weekend (1945) Available to rent on major platforms

Sunset Boulevard (1950) Available on Amazon Prime, Pluto TV, Crackle

The Greatest Show on Earth (1952) Available to rent on major platforms

White Christmas (1954) Available to rent on major platforms

The Ten Commandments (1956) Available to rent on major platforms

Psycho (1960) Available to rent on major platforms/Peacock

Breakfast at Tiffanys (1961) Available to rent on major platforms

Alfie (1966) Available on CBS All Access

The Odd Couple  (1968) Available to rent on major platforms

Rosemary’s Baby (1968) Available on Hulu

Godfather (1971) Available to rent on major platforms

Grease (1978) Available to Netflix/Amazon Prime

Apocalypse Now (1979) Available on HBOMax

Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) Available on Netflix

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982) Available on Hulu, Amazon Prime, Sling TV

Beverly Hills Cop (1984) Available to rent on major platforms

Children of a Lesser God (1986) Available on Amazon Prime

Forrest Gump (1994) Available on Starz

Braveheart (1995) Available to rent on major platforms

Titanic (1997) Available on AMC (with television subscription)

Saving Private Ryan (1998) Available on HBOMax

Iron Man (2008) Available on Disney+

Tropic Thunder (2008) Available to rent on major platforms

Star Trek (2009) Available to rent on major platforms

Sonic the Hedgehog (2019) Available to rent on major platforms

SOURCES:

Wikipedia

https://www.nytimes.com/1971/03/08/archives/barney-balaban-dead-at-83-headed-paramount-pictures-builder-of.html

Paramount City of Dreams by Steven Bingen

This week on The Tinsel Factory, a history of the Alien Franchise. 

Movie Reviews: Speak No Evil

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Sources:

youtube.com/watch?v=j_DBS2WIEv8

https://www.space.com/alien-movies-in-order 

This week on The Tinsel Factory, a brief history of Hong Kong Cinema.

Movie Reviews: Beetlejuice Beetlejuice

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Sources:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-pacific-16526765

https://www.cuhk.edu.hk/rct/pdf/e_outputs/b2930/v29&30P293.pdf

This week on The Tinsel Factory, the history of the horror genre from its origins to the modern day. Your host also recounts an evening with Sacheen Littlefeather.

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Sources:

https://www.nyfa.edu/student-resources/how-horror-movies-have-changed-since-their-beginning/

Eli Roth’s History of Horror (2018-)

This week on The Tinsel Factory, the history of Pixar animation and it key players.

On two sentence movie reviews, Here Today, Spiral: From the Book of Saw, and Profile.

Recommended Viewing:

All Pixar films are available on Disney+

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Sources:

youtube.com/watch?v=TrpWCelgoww

The Pixar Story (2007)

https://www.theverge.com/2015/3/17/8229891/sxsw-2015-toy-story-pixar-making-of-20th-anniversary

https://pixar.fandom.com/wiki/Brain_Trust

This week The Tinsel Factory takes you on a strange journey as we cover the history of the quintessential cult classic film, The Rocky Horror Picture Show

On Two Sentence Movie Reviews, Candyman and Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings.

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Sources:

https://archive.org/details/americanmusicalp00knap

youtube.com/watch?v=x_7cjGSur-M

The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)

This week on The Tinsel Factory, a look back on 2023

Movie Reviews: Wish

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Sources:

https://laist.com/brief/news/arts-and-entertainment/los-angeles-hollywood-amptp-studios-streamers-history

https://www.vulture.com/article/wga-strike-2023.html

https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/2023/09/27/wga-contract-details-writers-strike-deal/#

https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2023/10/writers-strike-winners-and-losers

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/sag-aftra-contract-deal-agreement-actors-ai/

This week on The Tinsel Factory, River Phoenix, and the life he lived that led him to The Viper Room. On two sentence movie reviews, The Sparks Brothers. Support This Podcast: https://anchor.fm/tinselfactorypod Merch: https://shop.spreadshirt.com/the-tinsel-factory/all  Venmo: @tinselfactorypod Sources: https://www.biography.com/actor/river-phoenix Last Night at the Viper Room by Gavin Edwards Running With Monsters by Bob Forrest Pink by Gus Van Sant https://apnews.com/article/8cda7d6ed24681f99b9e19f4cb433523

This week on the Tinsel Factory, the Life and Loves of Clark Gable. We follow the King of Hollywood’s early life, rise to stardom, and the love he found along the way.

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Sources:

https://www.newspapers.com/clip/23149576/gable-marries-sylvia-more-details-with/

https://www.newspapers.com/clip/2730464/the-childress-index/

youtube.com/watch?v=5BtvLKY9d3w

https://www.classicmoviefavorites.com/actors-featured-at-classic-movie-favorites/clark-gable/clark-gable-biography/