Episode

1910 E3 - David Morton

Podcast
The 5 Best Films of Every Year Ever
Published
Jan 28, 2026
Duration seconds
4434
Processing state
not_requested
Canonical source
https://www.spreaker.com/episode/1910-e3-david-morton--69625508
Audio
https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/69625508/1910_e3_david_morton.mp3
JSON
/v1/public/podcasts/the-5-best-films-of-every-year-ever-6929535/episodes/1910-e3-david-morton
Markdown
/podcast/the-5-best-films-of-every-year-ever-6929535/1910-e3-david-morton.md

Actions

  • POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-5-best-films-of-every-year-ever-6929535/episodes/1910-e3-david-morton/transcription-requests
    Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode.
  • GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-5-best-films-of-every-year-ever-6929535/1910-e3-david-morton.md
    Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource.

Summary

David Morton, Lecturer at the University of Central Florida, is the author of Motion Picture Paradise: A History of Florida’s Film and Television Industry . With this expertise in mind, the opening of the conversation covers the American film industry’s halting migration to the southern state, but moves on to American migrations to other locations and censored films. David received his Ph.D. in Texts and Technology in 2019 from University of Central Florida in 2019. He was a 2017-18 recipient of the Fulbright Scholarship and served as a visiting scholar at the Centre for Cinema and Media Studies at Ghent University. Films and resources mentioned: Ramona (1910) - D.W. Griffith Jeffries-Johnson World’s Championship Boxing Contest (1910) - unknown The Lad from Old Ireland (1910) - Sidney Olcott The White Slave Trade (1910) - August Blom Frankenstein (1910) - J. Searle Dawley In Old California (1910) - D.W. Griffith Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954) - Jack Arnold Mank (2020) - David Fincher Broken Blossoms (1919) - D.W. Griffith Ben Hur (1907) - Sidney Olcott and Frank Oakes Rose An Irish Honeymoon (1911) - Sidney Olcott Mississippi Burning (1988) - Alan Parker Psycho (1998) - Gus Van Sant The White Slave Trade (1910) - Alfred Cohn The Abyss (1910) - Urban Gad Taken (2008) - Pierre Morel Frankenstein (2025) - Guillermo del Toro Frankenstein (1931) - James Whale Dracula (1931) - Tod Browning The Crowd (1928) - King Vidor Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927) - F.W. Murnau Early American Cinema in Transition: Story, Style and Filmmaking - Charlie Keil A Century of Dishonor: A Sketch of the United States Government’s Dealings with Some of the Indian Tribes - Helen Hunt Jackson At the Picture Show: Small-town Audiences and the Creation of Movie Fan Culture - Kathy Fuller-Se…