Episode #35 - Welcome to the third Fresh Air Award! Four cinephiles continue a Fourwind Films tradition of awarding a film that pushed cinema forward the most as an art form during a particular decade. To be nominated, a motion picture has to have changed movies in some way and made a lasting impression on the filmmakers. This episode continues our discovery of the silent era: 1910-1919.
Before getting into the nominations with the panelists, our host Justin Joseph Hall reads an excerpt from film historian David Kiehn of the Niles Film Museum about the second full decade of cinema.
The four cinephiles who select the nominees in this panel are cinephiles Elizabeth Chatelain, Justin Joseph Hall, Kevin Hinman, and Jason Tucker. If the piece has moving images and came out in the appropriate decade, it is eligible for nomination. This group chose an array of documentaries, shorts, animated films, and feature films, including one with the film with the first synchronized score.
Here is the link to all the nominations: 1900’s Fresh Air Award Nominees - Letterboxd list
There were several overlaps, but here are the main nominations made by each panelist:
Elizabeth Chatelain nominees
Rituais e festas borôro (1917)
Birth of a Flower (1910)
Gertie The Dinosaur (1914)
A Man There Was (1917)
Shoulder Arms (1918)
Justin Joseph Hall nominees
Suspense. (1913)
The Oyster Princess (1919)
The Perils of Pauline (1914)
Cabiria (1914)
The Cameraman's Revenge (1912)
Kevin Hinman nominees
A Dog's Life (1918)
J'accuse (1919)
Different From the Others Richard Oswald (1919)
Gertie the Dinosaur (1914)
South (1919)
Jason Tucker nominees
Rapsodia Satanica (1917)
Frankenstein (1910)
Falling Leaves (1912)
Spring Fever (1919)
The Sinking of the Lusitania (1918)
To find the 1910’s Fresh Air Award winner click on this link!
Thank you to our cinephiles who did joined this out of their passion. To hear more from them, visit links below:
Feature & a short - Justin Joseph Hall: Wasp, Rock & a Hard Place
Kevin Hinman
Spesh to Death - hip-hop music
Jason Tucker
Link to Underrated by Undercast - a recommended podcast - we suggest starting with “Death to Smoochy” where Justin Joseph Hall joins hosts discuss the films that we feel are; underrated, underappreciated.
Link to Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum thank you again to David Keihn for writing our historical essay.
Hope you enjoy this episode! Share with us your own lists, comments, arguments, and films that we left out via social media @fourwindfilms. We’re on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn.
Thanks for listening, Season 6 to come shortly!
Credits for podcast:
Production Company - Fourwind Films
Fresh Air Award Contributors for 1900s Decade - Elizabeth Chatelain, Justin Joseph Hall, Kevin Hinman, & Jason Tucker
Host - Justin Joseph Hall
Sound Mixer - Brian Trahan
Additional Sound Recordist - Dakota Anthony, Kevin Hinman
The theme song of Season 5 is This Monster by Sun Nectar.