Michael Gebert is the founder and co-moderator of NitrateVille, the online discussion site about vintage films of the silent era through the 1950s. Looking ahead to the advancements soon to come, his selections of almost all features demonstrate editing and performance style shifts, which branched off in slightly different ways in countries like America, France, and Sweden.

Michael is host of the NitrateVille Radio podcast, which talks to people doing "cool stuff" in the world of vintage film, from authors and filmmakers to the curators of retrospectives and festivals. He is also a food journalist in Chicago and the author of The Chicago Way: An Oral History of Chicago Dining.

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Films and resources mentioned:

• Ingeborg Holm (1913) - Victor Sjöström
• Germinal (1913) - Albert Capellani
• The Child of Paris (1913) - Léonce Perret
• Traffic in Souls (1913) - George Loane Tucker
• Mabel’s Dramatic Career (1913) - Mack Sennett
• The Squaw Man (1914) - Cecil B. DeMille
• The Cheat (1915) - Cecil B. DeMille
• The Conquest of the Pole (1912) - Georges Méliès
• The Searchers (1956) - John Ford
• Sammy’s Scandalous Scheme (1915) - Gilbert P. Hamilton
• The Extra Girl (1923) - F. Richard Jones
• Uncle Josh at the Moving Picture Show (1902) - Edwin S. Porter
• Alias Jimmy Valentine (1915) - Maurice Tourneur
• The Blue Bird (1918) - Maurice Tourneur
• The Wishing Ring: An Idyll of Old England (1914) - Maurice Tourneur
• The Miracle Man (1919) - George Loane Tucker
• Metropolis (1927) - Fritz Lang
• Suspense (1913) - Lois Weber and Phillips Smalley
• The Lonely Villa (1909) - D.W. Griffith
• Weapons (2025) - Zach Cregger
• Breathless (1960) - Jean-Luc Godard
• The Mystery of the Rocks of Kador (1912) - Léonce Perret
• Les Vampires (1915) - Louis Feuillade
• Tih Minh (1918) - Louis Feuillade
• Fantômas (1913) - Louis Feuillade
• The Strike (1904) - Ferdinand Zecca
• Les misérables (1912) - Albert Capellani
• Les misérables (1925) - Henri Fescourt
• Les misérables (1934) - Raymond Bernard
• A Man There Was (1917) - Victor Sjöström
• The Gardener (1912) - Victor Sjöström
• The Phantom Carriage (1921) - Victor Sjöström
• Girl with Hyacinths (1950) - Hasse Ekman
• The Birth of a Nation (1915) - D.W. Griffith
• The Magician (1926) - Rex Ingram
• The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921) - Rex Ingram
• Cecil B. DeMille’s Hollywood - Robert S. Birchard
• Cinema’s First Nasty Women
• Pordenone 2025 Report - Michael Gebert
• The Origins of Film
• Maurice Tourneur: Weaver of Dreams - Christine Leteux
• George Loane Tucker: The First of the Immortals - Frank Thompson