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Ross talks with Dr. David Morton about his new book, Motion Picture Paradise: A History of Florida's Film and Television Industry. Beginning in Jacksonville in the early 1900s, Florida spent decades competing with New York and Hollywood to become a major film production center. How did a series of failures and false starts influence Florida and its economic development? Can Florida become a motion picture paradise again? And what happened to Nickelodeon Studios?

FURTHER READING:

Morton, David. Motion Picture Paradise: A History of Florida's Film and Television Industry.

FURTHER WATCHING:

Miami Connection (1987)

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Ross talks with Skip Elsheimer of AVGeeks.com about his collection of over 37,000 non-theatrical film reels. What can we learn from old educational movies? Did the P.E. coaches of America traumatize multiple generations with traffic safety films? And why the one thing everyone knows about lemmings is a lie.

FURTHER READING:

Orgeron, Devin and Marsha, and Streible, Dan. Learning with the Lights Off: Educational Film in the United States.

FURTHER WATCHING:

Go check out AVGeeks.com!

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For the pilot episode of the History on Film Podcast, we look at Billy Wilder's 1961 Cold War comedy "One, Two, Three" and the role of Coca Cola in postwar Europe. Will James Cagney be able to unite East and West with the great taste of Coke? What happens when the construction of the Berlin Wall during post-production ruins the entire plot of a movie? And why was Gorbachev in a Pizza Hut commercial?!

Hilltop ad

Gorbachev ad

FURTHER READING:

Heller and Barson, Red Scared!: The Commie Menace in Propaganda and Popular Culture

Stephan, Alexander. The Americanization of Europe: Culture, Diplomacy, and Anti-Americanism after 1945

Mee, Charles. Marshall Plan:The Launching of Pax Americana

Kuisel, Richard. Seducing the French: The Dilemma of Americanization

FURTHER WATCHING:

Ninotchka (1939)

Dr. Stangelove (1964)

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