Kathy Fuller-Seeley, Professor of Media Studies at the University of Texas at Austin, studied early cinema audiences with her book At the Picture Show: Small Town Audiences and the Creation of Movie Fan Culture. Since then, her research interests have ranged to radio and back again to mid-1910s film history, and her interests similarly weave back and forth from morbid drama and eye-popping tricks.

Kathy also produced the Blu-ray release Francis Ford: The Craving plus Three Shorts. She is co-author, with Frank Thompson, of the upcoming book The First Movie Studio in Texas: Gaston Méliès’ Star Film Ranch.

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Films and resources mentioned:

• The Sealed Room (1909) - D.W. Griffith
• A Corner in Wheat (1909) - D.W. Griffith
• Princess Nicotine; or, the Smoke Fairy (1909) - J. Stuart Blackton
• A Trip to Jupiter (1909) - Segundo de Chomón
• The Mill (1909) - Alfred Machin
• The Cry of the Children (1912) - George Nichols
• The Fabelmans (2022) - Steven Spielberg
• The Haunted Hotel (1907) - J. Stuart Blackton
• The Haunted House (1907) - Segundo de Chomón
• The Movie Orgy (1968) - Joe Dante
• The Craving (1918) - Francis Ford
• The Phantom Carriage (1921) - Victor Sjöström
• Sherlock Jr. (1924) - Buster Keaton
• The One Man Band (1900) - Georges Méliès
• The Devilish Tenant (1909) - Georges Méliès
• A Trip to the Moon (1902) - Georges Méliès
• Excursion to the Moon (1908) - Segundo de Chomón
• The Cowboy Millionaire (1909) - Francis Boggs and Otis Turner
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