Movie Meltdown

Movie Meltdown - Episode 252 This week, we begin our Grind discussion on how technology affects fandom. An all-around conversation of how entertainment-based technology has continually changed in the last century.  With each passing year we develop new technological additions that bring movies and entertainment to the viewers. So we look at how these things have changed… and do those changes affect the viewers themselves. Plus bonus discussions about Gravity, The Counselor and killing Uncle Owen and Aunt Beru.  And as we pin down just how Kinescope works, we also address… auxiliary Dave, how do you become a fan of something before there was a way to own it, Happy Days reruns, showing 16mm prints on television, The Marx Brothers, the thrill of the scavenger hunt, how piracy was born, it's inertia... it's inertia, the early days of Doctor Who, Destroy All Monsters for breakfast, President Taft, gross misinterpretation of fetish culture, missing something on TV, dressing like an astronaut, circulating the record