Three of Associate Professor at Brock University Liz Clarke’s picks are defined by a sort of morbid delight. But with a cuddlier creature and the colonizing gaze represented in her other two selections, the conversation reveals more layers of the global film industry in 1907.

Liz is the author of The American Girl Goes to War: Women and National Identity in US Film, 1908-1918. She also researches women writers in film and television from the silent period to contemporary female show-runners.

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Films and resources mentioned:

• Race for the Sausage (1907) - Alice Guy-Blaché
• The “Teddy” Bears (1907) - Edwin S. Porter
• The Doll’s Revenge (1907) - Cecil Hepworth
• The Dancing Pig (1907) - unknown
• Vancouver (1907) - William Harbeck
• Rescued by Rover (1905) - Cecil Hepworth and Lewin Fitzhamon
• The Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat Station (1896) - Auguste and Louis Lumière
• The Birth of a Nation (1915) - D.W. Griffith
• Explosion of a Motor Car (1900) - Cecil Hepworth
• How It Feels to Be Run Over (1900) - Cecil Hepworth
• A Trip through British North Borneo (1907) - H.M. Lomas
• A Trip Down Market Street Before the Fire (1906) - Harry Miles
• Films by the Year