NitrateVille Radio

NitrateVille Radio

For fans of classic movies, talking with authors, archivists, filmmakers, musicians and others doing work with our film heritage. From NitrateVille.com, the classic film discussion site.

Episodes

August 4, 2025 98 mins
122: Richard Koszarski on Made in New Jersey • Dennis Doros on New Jersey, Queen Kelly and Missing Movies • Lon Davis on Edward Everett Horton (98:24)
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Rob Byrne on San Francisco Film Preserve • Lisa Stein Haven, author of Early Buster Keaton: From the Vaudeville Stage to Comique Films, 1899-1920 (84:28)
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Eddie Muller, author of Dark City Dames • Ben Model, author of The Silent Film Universe
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Mary Mallory, author of First Women of Hollywood • Thomas J. Slater, author of June Mathis: The Rise and Fall of a Silent Film Visionary (87:33)
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Nasty Women Return! Karen Pearlman on Breaking Plates and Smashing the Patriarchy • Rhea Combs on Oscar Micheaux: The Complete Collection • Katie Gee Salisbury, author of Not Your China Doll: The Wild and Shimmering Life of Anna May Wong (92:56)
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Steve Massa on a Roscoe Arbuckle DVD/Blu-ray Kickstarter • Noah Isenberg, author of Edgar G. Ulmer: A Filmmaker at the Margins (92:14)
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Dave Kehr on MoMA's To Save and Project preservation festival • Thomas Christensen on the Copenhagen Silent Film Festival • Authors Michael Benson and Craig Singer on Moguls: The Lives and Times of Hollywood Pioneers Nicholas and Joseph Schenck (90:33)
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Top Ten in Physical Media 2024, with Bruce Calvert • James Harrison on South West Silents & Film Noir UK • Burt Kearns on Shemp! (96:58)
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Josh Frank, creator of Silents Synced • Pordenone Festival Report 2024, with Lokke Heiss • Thomas Waksh on pioneering art director Ben Carré (93:32)
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Michael F. Blake, author of The Cavalry Trilogy: John Ford, John Wayne, and the Making of Three Classic Westerns • Kathy Fuller Seeley on Francis Ford • Thomas Reeder, author of Poverty Row Royalty: The Films of Producer Sigmund Neufeld and His Brother, Director Sam Newfield (90:33)
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Bruce Calvert on the new restoration of Napoleon (1927) • Kurt Jensen, author of Peerless: Rouben Mamoulian, Hollywood and Broadway • Christopher S. Connelly, author of Helen Morgan: The Original Torch Singer and Ziegfeld's Last Star (91:14)
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Dave Glass on silent comedian Monty Banks • Jeffrey L. Carrier on silent star Patsy Ruth Miller (78:25)
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Vitagraph Comedies, with Rob Stone, George Willeman and Lynanne Schweighofer • Peter Flynn, director of Film is Dead. Long Live Film! • Lon Davis, author of Stumbling Into Film History (99:54)
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Donald Brackett, author of Double Solitaire: The Films of Brackett and Wilder • Alain Silver and James Ursini, authors of From the Moment They Met It Was Murder: Double Indemnity and the Rise of Film Noir (99:22)
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Bryony Dixon on Victorian Film • Maggie Hennefeld on Women and Death by Laughter • Sam Dunn on the Deadly Doings of Tod Slaughter (87:20)
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Dan Streible on Orphan Films • Mike Mashon on the Changing Preservation Scene (85:52)
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Donald Bogle, author of Lena Horne: Goddess Reclaimed • Tracey Goessel on restoring William S. Hart • Pamela Hutchinson, author of BFI Film Classics: The Red Shoes (96:44)
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Top Ten in Physical Media 2023, with Bruce Calvert and Michael Gebert • Foster Hirsch, author of Hollywood and the Movies of the Fifties, on Movie Culture in the 50s (97:11)
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NitrateVille Radio Ep. 104: Pordenone 2023 Festival Report, with Lokke Heiss • Mindy Johnson on Bessie Mae Kelley, The "Only" Woman Animator • Scott Eyman, author of Charlie Chaplin vs. America (108:27)
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Jonny Best on the Northern Silent Film Festival • Lisa Stein Haven, author of The Early Years of Charlie Chaplin: Final Shorts and First Features • Sarah Royal, author of AKA Lucy: The Dynamic and Determined Life of Lucille Ball (96:04)
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