{"podcast":{"title":"The 5 Best Films of Every Year Ever","slug":"the-5-best-films-of-every-year-ever-6929535","podcast_index_feed_id":6929535,"rss_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/show/6184358/episodes/feed","website_url":"https://www.the5bestfilmsofeveryyearever.com/","image_url":"https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/6b6cd6b7a59220c5f78e360e315d1fe9.jpg","author":"Tristan Ettleman","episode_count":105,"summary":"The 5 Best Films of Every Year Ever features experts and enthusiasts and, well, their favorite films of every year ever. Host Tristan Ettleman sits down with a new guest every week to dive into the history and beauty of some of the best movies to ever come out of the cinematic medium.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-22T16:17:39.934373+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-5-best-films-of-every-year-ever-6929535"},"episode":{"title":"1909 E3 - Donald Crafton","slug":"1909-e3-donald-crafton","published_at":"2025-12-10T07:00:08+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-5-best-films-of-every-year-ever-6929535/1909-e3-donald-crafton","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-5-best-films-of-every-year-ever-6929535","url":"https://www.spreaker.com/episode/1909-e3-donald-crafton--68963498","audio_url":"https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/68963498/1909_e3_donald_crafton.mp3","summary":"Author and scholar Donald Crafton wrote Before Mickey: The Animated Film, 1898-1928 , a defining work of early animation history. Yet with the exception of one example from a filmmaker much discussed in that book and especially his other Emile Cohl, Caricature, and Film , his picks range into the live action territory of editing innovations alongside the still-surviving tradition of trick films and actualities. Donald also wrote on the transition from silent cinema to sound production in The Talkies: American Cinema’s Transition to Sound, 1926-1931 . Since retiring, he has written a play, Winsor and Gertie, that has been produced in Europe and the U.S, and which he has recently adapted as a feature-length screenplay. Films and resources mentioned: The Lonely Villa (1909) - D.W. Griffith The Spider and the Butterfly (1909) - Georges Méliès A Trip to the White Seas Fisheries (1909) - Joe Rosenthal Dick Is Not Dead (1909) - unknown The Man in the Moon (1909) - Étienne Arnaud and Émile Cohl The Scarlet Drop (1918) - John Ford The Adventures of Dollie (1908) - D.W. Griffith Hugo (2011) - Martin Scorsese Cyrano de Bergerac (1923) - Augusto Genina Baron Munchausen’s Dream (1911) - Georges Méliès Slippery Jim (1909) - Segundo de Chomón Wild and Woolly (1917) - John Emerson Un Chien Andalou (1929) - Luis Buñuel Fantasmagorie (1908) - Émile Cohl Women Film Pioneers Project","meta_description":"Author and scholar Donald Crafton wrote Before Mickey: The Animated Film, 1898-1928 , a defining work of early animation history. Yet with the exception o…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3192,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-5-best-films-of-every-year-ever-6929535/episodes/1909-e3-donald-crafton/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-5-best-films-of-every-year-ever-6929535/1909-e3-donald-crafton.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}