Before getting into the nominations with the panelists, our host Justin Joseph Hall reads an excerpt from film historian David Kiehn of the Niles Film Museum about the second full decade of cinema. 

The four cinephiles who select the nominees in this panel are cinephiles Elizabeth Chatelain, Justin Joseph Hall, Kevin Hinman, and Jason Tucker. If the piece has moving images and came out in the appropriate decade, it is eligible for nomination. This group chose an array of documentaries, shorts, animated films, and feature films, including one with the film with the first synchronized score.

Here is the link to all the nominations: 1900’s Fresh Air Award Nominees - Letterboxd list

There were several overlaps, but here are the main nominations made by each panelist:

Elizabeth Chatelain nominees

Rituais e festas borôro (1917)

Birth of a Flower (1910)

Gertie The Dinosaur (1914)

A Man There Was (1917)

Shoulder Arms (1918)

Justin Joseph Hall nominees

Suspense. (1913)

The Oyster Princess (1919)

The Perils of Pauline (1914)

Cabiria (1914)

The Cameraman's Revenge (1912)

Kevin Hinman nominees

A Dog's Life (1918)

J'accuse (1919)

Different From the Others Richard Oswald (1919)

Gertie the Dinosaur (1914)

South (1919)

Jason Tucker nominees

Rapsodia Satanica (1917)

Frankenstein (1910)

Falling Leaves (1912)

Spring Fever (1919)

 The Sinking of the Lusitania (1918)

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Credits for podcast:

Production Company - Fourwind Films

Fresh Air Award Contributors for 1900s Decade - Elizabeth Chatelain, Justin Joseph Hall, Kevin Hinman, & Jason Tucker

Host - Justin Joseph Hall

Sound Mixer - Brian Trahan

Additional Sound Recordist - Dakota Anthony

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