4.4-The Big Pond with James Kreul

Today's episode is my conversation about the 1930 film The Big Pond. I'm joined by James Kreul from the Moving Image Madison newsletter and we talk about the comparison between this and the other recent Maurice Chevalier films covered on the podcast (The Love Parade), how a film can achieve romance between two characters that don't appear on screen together for most of the movie, and how efficiently the film tells the story in a tight 70-minute runtime.

You can watch The Big Pond online on YouTube and be sure to check out James's newsletter.

Other films mentioned in this episode include:

• Animal Crackers directed by Victor Heerman
• Monkey Business directed by Norman Z. McLeod
• All Quiet on the Western Front directed by Lewis Milestone
• The Divorcee directed by Robert Z. Leonard
• The Love Parade directed by Ernst Lubitsch
• One Hour With You directed by Ernst Lubitsch and George Cukor
• His Girl Friday directed by Howard Hawks
• Dracula (1931) directed by Tod Browning
• Frankenstein (1931) directed by James Whale
• The Invisible Man (1933) directed by James Whale
• It Happened One Night directed by Frank Capra
• Disraeli directed by Alfred E. Green
• The Green Goddess directed by Alfred E. Green

Other referenced topics:

• The Big Pond (play) by George Middleton and A. E. Thomas
• Spongebob Squarepants pilot episode
• The New Movie Magazine review

Also be sure to check out the full Lantern Media History website at https://lantern.mediahist.org/.