Lost Media, Part Two: We Didn't Start The Fire
Ridiculous History
English - October 27, 2022 17:02 - 30 minutes - 27.8 MB - ★★★★ - 4.1K ratingsHistory Society & Culture Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Previous Episode: Lost Media, Part One: What Happened to All Those Silent Films?
Next Episode: The Bizarrely Xenophobic Origins of Scotch Tape
Silent films took the world by storm, but the material they were manufactured from was notoriously -- cartoonishly -- flammable. Soon multiple studio buildings were burning to the ground. There wasn't always a spark involved, either: sometimes this stuff just spontaneously combusted. In part two of this two-part series, Ben, Noel and Max explore how silent films became so endangered in the modern day.
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