# 1909 E6 - Paul Flaig

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Podcast: [The 5 Best Films of Every Year Ever](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-5-best-films-of-every-year-ever-6929535)
Published: 2025-12-31T07:00:09+00:00
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## Resource

Paul Flaig, Lecturer in Film Studies at University of St Andrews, wrote a stellar synthesis of disciplines with his new book Weimar Slapstick and Hollywood Comedy Transformed . While it clearly deals with a later period than 1909, he still works German and American (and French!) comedy into his picks, in addition to a sound novelty and an actuality with a connection to Franz Kafka. Paul is also the co-editor, with Katherine Groo, of New Silent Cinema and co-director, with Dora Osborne, of the German Screen Studies Network (GSSN) . His writing has appeared in many journals and edited collections, including Cinema Journal, Screen, Camera Obscura, animation, and Journal of Cinema and Media Studies (JCMS). Films and resources mentioned: Klebolin Sticks to Everything (1909) - Heinrich Bolten-Baeckers Those Awful Hats (1909) - D.W. Griffith The Happy Microbes (1909) - Émile Cohl What Is a Flag (1909) - Alice Guy-Blaché First International Competition for Airplanes in Brescia (1909) - unknown Rain (1929) - Mannus Franken and Joris Ivens Good Glue Sticks (1907) - Georges Méliès A Sticky Woman (1906) - Alice Guy-Blaché L'Arroseur Arrosé (1895) - Louis Lumière At the Crossroads of Life (1908) - D.W. Griffith Miller’s Crossing (1990) - Joel and Ethan Coen Fantasmagorie (1908) - Émile Cohl Brains Repaired (1911) - Émile Cohl The Yawner (1907) - Segundo de Chomón Princess Nicotine; or, the Smoke Fairy (1909) - J. Stuart Blackton Daddy-Long-Legs (1919) - Marshall Neilan Original Films of Frank B. Gilbreth (1910-1924) - Frank B. Gilbreth Bad Film Histories: Ethnography and the Early Archive - Katherine Groo “Women's Hats and Silent Film Spectatorship: Between Ostrich Plume and Moving Image” - Maggie Hennefeld Emile Cohl, Caricature, and Film - Donald Crafton Kafka Goes to the Movies…

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