Charlie Chaplin’s Theatre and Vaudeville
The new #5MinuteHistory is out and it explores the theatre of Charlie Chaplin's youth in order raise aware for an endangered British venue, The Coronet. Although one almost always thinks about cinema when they think of Chaplin, his roots were in the British Music Hall tradition and the Vaudeville scene in the ...
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5 Minute History: Charlie Chaplin’s Early Years | Micro Documentary
Watch the 5-minute history #MicroDocumentary on Charlie Chaplin's early years by clicking play or download the film from iTunes. Remember to subscribe to The Artist in American History podcast for more open-access educational content. Charlie Chaplin, one of the earliest auteur's, true geniuses, of cinematic ...
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The Silent Film Festival App for Android Tablets and Phones
The Silent Film Festival app brings four classic movies with new educational audio commentaries to your Android tablet or phone. The app is, as with everything on this site, open access (i.e. free) and presents the four episodes from The Artist in American History podcast films studies series from late 2013 and early ...
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Inside Charlie Chaplin’s The Immigrant
Download Video | Download from iTunes In the final part of the 2013-2014 film festival we explore Charlie Chaplin's seminal 1917 film, The Immigrant. When Chaplin was exiled from the United States in the 1950s for his leftist politics, this film was used as evidence against him. In truth, much of Chaplin's work ...
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The Birth of a Nation (1915)
It is almost impossible to talk about early American cinema without mentioning D.W. Griffith's 1915 Civil War-era epic, The Birth of a Nation. The film achieved so much in terms of its scope, production techniques, use of editing, and its special effects that it is difficult to ignore. Yet, its racist and white ...
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Superman Goes to War
In 1941 Fleischer Studios began work on a spectacular series of Superman cartoons. These short films were some of the most expensive produced to that date and, by 1942, the Fleischer brothers had been removed from the project. The second sequence of cinematic Superman cartoons (1942-1943) paid much more attention to the ...
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The Artist in American History
The Artist and American History - #AmericanStudies Artistry reflects much about society, culture, and history. Ideas and assumptions about race, gender, sexuality, and class can find expression in the creative works of decades past. Over the past year the American Studies and History Podcast has presented a ...
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