025 Silent Film History and Behind the Scenes at the Oscars, Kay Shackleton aka The Movie Gal
Curiosityness
Travis DeRose
4.8 • 566 Ratings
🗓️ 6 December 2018
⏱️ 93 minutes
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Summary
If you have any interest in the history of the film industry or what it's like behind the scenes at the Oscars, you're going to love this episode!
Kay Shackleton is the owner of SilentHollywood.com and is also known as the Movie Gal. Her background in silent film began with her father who was an extra in silent films. Now, Kay documents and preserves silent film era history and stories.
In this episode we talk about how the film industry got started, silent film technology, combustable film, along with a lot of fun behinds the scenes stories from the Academy Awards!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 25 of Curiosityness with me, your host, Travis DeRose, and this episode I have on The Movie Gal. Her name is, her real name is Kay Shackleton. She is also known as the movie gal. That's her website. and she has a website called silent hollywood.com. |
| 0:22.7 | She got that crazy domain name, silent hollywood.com. And Kay is super fun to talk to. She's been to the |
| 0:30.7 | Oscars four times and covered it. She's been done interviews on the red carpet. Her dad was an |
| 0:37.2 | extra in silent movie, so she has like a heritage back to it even, |
| 0:40.9 | and she's met all these people, and she's writing a book about the 100-year anniversary |
| 0:45.5 | for the Oscars and interviewing Oscar winners. |
| 0:49.2 | And it's just a really fun episode. |
| 0:51.6 | If you love movies or the Oscars or anything like that, I think you're really going to enjoy hearing from Kay because she's just, she's fun to hear. |
| 1:00.1 | She has a good perspective on all this stuff. |
| 1:02.3 | And I really, I really enjoyed it, so I think you will too. |
| 1:05.5 | So that's the end of me talking. |
| 1:07.8 | And now I will let Kay do some talking. |
| 1:12.5 | So here is the episode. |
| 1:19.8 | Okay, we're going. How's it going, Kay? It's going great. Cool. Well, thanks for being on the show. |
| 1:32.5 | Appreciate it. I'm excited to talk to you. Well, this is exciting for me, too. Perfect. So you know a lot about movies and silent movies in particular. You have silent hollywood.com. Yes, I created silent hollywood.com about 10 years ago. |
| 1:38.6 | 10 years ago. Yeah, you got the URL. That's, or the, yeah, domain name. That's a good one. |
| 1:47.0 | Yes, I thought I grabbed a good one yes it did nice so silent hollywood dot com you also have uh you're the movie gal so you also have the movie gal |
| 1:53.2 | so you also have the movie gal dot com right yes i am a freelance reporter at covering the entertainment |
| 2:00.5 | industry especially in the movies and award season. |
| 2:05.0 | And I do a lot of interviewing and filmmakers, writers, directors, cinematographers. |
| 2:14.9 | And so I have a foot in the past of movies and in the current time of movies. |
| 2:22.2 | Yeah. Dang, crazy. So I guess can we just start with how this all got started? Because you're, |
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