Lost Media, Part One: What Happened to All Those Silent Films?

Ridiculous History

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History, Society & Culture

4.3 • 4.4K Ratings

🗓️ 26 October 2022

⏱️ 46 minutes

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For a relatively brief period of time, silent films rocked the world of entertainment. However, these nitrate- and acetate-based films proved both fragile -- and downright dangerous. In the first part of this two-part series, Ben, Noel and Max dive into the strange story of how so many silent films ended up lost forever.

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2:03.8	Shout out to our number one super producer, Mr. Max Williams.
2:10.7	There we go. Yeah, he's looking like a real snack today.
2:14.4	Oh yeah. Also, I'm big. God, I sounded really pervy.
2:21.0	It's like a cartoon where all of a sudden, Max just looks like a roasted chicken kind of
2:25.3	hovering. You know, and I just found out. Yeah, I know. But then I'm not quite sure. Am I hungry?
2:31.1	Or am I horny? I unclear. I'm clear in the original cartoon. I think it'd be both. So yeah,
2:36.8	they could be mutually exclusive. Yeah. So I've been your know, we are exploring something that's
2:43.5	been a personal passion for all three of us separately way before we ever stumbled into podcasting.
2:51.2	And that is missing media, lost media. We're in an age where there's more just media in general
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