{"id":8742,"date":"2010-07-26T01:17:16","date_gmt":"2010-07-26T00:17:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/?p=8742"},"modified":"2010-07-26T01:17:16","modified_gmt":"2010-07-26T00:17:16","slug":"the-national-archives-movie-podcast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2010\/07\/26\/the-national-archives-movie-podcast\/","title":{"rendered":"The National Archives Movie Podcast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalarchives.gov.uk\/podcasts\/40234.htm\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8743\" title=\"The National Archives\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/The-National-Archives.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"279\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>[ad]<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalarchives.gov.uk\/\">The National Archives<\/a><\/strong> in the UK have produced <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalarchives.gov.uk\/podcasts\/40234.htm\">a podcast<\/a> which sheds light on <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cinema_of_the_United_Kingdom\">the history of British cinema<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Presented by Joseph Pugh, it is a recorded talk that explores some intriguing stories using documents from records in the archive.<\/p>\n<p>Much of the hour long podcast is devoted to the silent era and it uncovers some interesting nuggets such as: the attempts by the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Colonial_Office\">Colonial Office<\/a> to ban D.W. Griffith&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Birth_of_a_Nation\">The Birth of a Nation<\/a>; a groundbreaking British cartoon that was financed by the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Central_Intelligence_Agency\">CIA<\/a>; and the attempts in 1922 to ban a film called Cocaine.<\/p>\n<p>Many of the films discussed are listed on <a href=\"http:\/\/yourarchives.nationalarchives.gov.uk\/index.php?title=Fiction_feature_films\">Your Archives<\/a>, a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wiki\">wiki<\/a> where people can post more information, which is a commendable attempt to crowd source further research.<\/p>\n<p>&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalarchives.gov.uk\/podcasts\/40234.htm\">Listen to the podcast<\/a><br \/> &gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalarchives.gov.uk\">The National Archives<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Archives in the UK have produced a podcast which sheds light on the history of British cinema.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,2],"tags":[1480],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8742"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8742\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}