Pandemic Hollywood
The Tinsel Factory: A Film History Podcast
English - December 06, 2020 08:00 - 33 minutes - 30.6 MBFilm History TV & Film Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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/
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