Aug. 18, 2023

Watch Old Movies with Your Kids

This week, we have a bonus episode where I talk about watching old movies with your kids, recommending Ty Burr’s The Best Old Movies for Families, and my four year old gives his review of two recent watches: The Wizard of Oz (1939) and The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)

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You're.
Watching closely, what's the

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secret back?
Just gotta find something you

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love with you and then do it for
the rest of your life.

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I don't want to be a product of
my environment.

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I want my environment to be a
product.

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Of me.
Hello and welcome to the

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Establishing Shot podcast, where
we usually do deep dives into

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directors and their
filmographies.

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We're taking a small break
between director series though,

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and I wanted to to put something
out there.

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Just a little bonus episode for
you all this week.

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Not an official full length
episode, but yeah, a little

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little tidbit.
I just wanted to share a.

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Special review.
Here in a second, but I just

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wanted to talk for a second
about something that.

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I've kind of started an endeavor
with and that is working on

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showing my kids kind of classic
movies, warming them up a bit,

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if you will, to to really good
movies.

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And it's an idea that kind of I
was spurred on by by various

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sources, some different
podcasts, but yeah.

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It's it's just something that I
have a heart for.

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I really love movies and cinema
and of course I I really enjoy

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some kids movies and some crazy
animated movies.

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They're always fun, but those
aren't the only movies that kids

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can watch.
I feel like we do so much

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dumbing down of.
Our kids by what we give them as

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options to to watch and to take
in as far as media and art goes.

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And I think that's the area that
we really.

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Especially here in America and
have a lot of growth that we

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need to to do in and so I'm
going to one for one recommend

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this book.
It's by Ty Burr and it's called

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You probably can't see it
obviously if you're just

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listening on the podcast but
even it's kind of hard to see

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even on YouTube here.
But it's called The Best Old

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Movies for Families, a guide to
watching together.

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And when he says old movies, he,
you know, he means old movies.

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I'm not sure what the most
recent movie in here is, but

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they go up.
They go up to like the 70s I

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think as far as the range of of
the the decades goes.

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But yeah, it's a great little
book.

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It's not one that I'm
necessarily like reading

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through, but one that I'm using
kind of as a.

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Just kind of like a reference
guide.

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Basically he has a lot of
recommendations for movies to

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watch with your kids within
different age, age ranges, those

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being toddler, tweener and
teenager.

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And so obviously, like your
films can get more mature as

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your your children get more
mature.

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But yeah, we've kind of really
have taken this on as like a.

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An endeavor to really help, you
know my son.

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Right now, my daughter's still a
baby, so she can't really join

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in yet.
But my son is 4 and, you know, I

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want him to be able to not just
watch, like flashy movies that

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are like trying to be goofy.
And those are fine.

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And you know, he'll watch his
fair share of those, but I want

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him to be able to sit down with
with a movie that has a little

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bit more substance to it and
it's just like a Classic Cinema

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that's just good to watch, you
know, Tyber and his book opens

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up with a story about his nine
year old daughter wanting that

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loves movies and wants to.
Do a screening of bringing up

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baby for her 9th birthday and
how like they, you know, say you

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know Are you sure?
And she's like, yes, it's my

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birthday.
That's what I want to do.

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They sent out the invites
parents of other kids that are

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invited or like nervous.
They're like my kids not

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nervous.
They're not going to actually

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sit and watch this movie and get
into stuff and turns out.

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The kids, like, were entranced
by it.

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They took like a birthday cake
break and like then the kids

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were like, yeah, let's finish
the movie.

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And the parents got there to
pick them up as it was

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finishing.
And they were like amazed that

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the kids were like entranced by
this old black and white movie.

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And yeah, I just feel like we we
treat our kids as if they have

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no concept of.
What's interesting and what's

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what's like good art and what's,
I don't know, we just dumb

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things down.
And so, yeah, this is an

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endeavor that I'm taking on with
with my son and eventually my

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daughter of like, let's sit down
as a family and watch a old

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movie together.
The recent ones we've watched,

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we watched The Wizard of Oz,
which is obviously, you know, a

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great classic movie.
And then most recently we

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watched the the old The
Adventures of Robin Hood

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starring Errol Flynn, who is
just incredible.

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As for Robin Hood, just like a
movie star of movie stars.

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And so that was my first time
watching that with my son.

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So yeah, he he enjoyed him.
He obviously doesn't understand

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everything that's going on.
In the movies.

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But he doesn't have to, to enjoy
them for what they are and for

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what he is capable of
understanding and enjoying.

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And so yeah, I I asked him if he
wanted to pee on the podcast and

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tell people what he thought of
the movies and he said yeah and

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was excited.
So I'm going to go ahead and and

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cut to him and let him give his
little review of the Wizard of

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Oz and the adventures of Robin
Hood.

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So.
I hope you enjoy his review and

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I will see you in a couple
weeks.

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We're starting the Christopher
Nolan series on September 1st,

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so there'll be a one week break
where we don't have anything

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coming out.
But But yeah, I look forward to

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seeing you then.
But until then, here is my son

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Ezekiel's review of sorts of The
Wizard of Oz and the Adventures

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of Robin Hood.
Enjoy.

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It's starting recording.
Don't touch your microphone, OK,

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you.
Ready all.

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Right.
Tell them your name.

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My name is Ezekiel.
Yeah, you gotta stay back here,

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OK?
What movies did we watch

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together recently?
Ezekiel.

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The Avengers of walking for the
wizard.

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Of eyes, that's right.
And.

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Let me ask you about.
The Wizard of Oz.

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Can I do that?
Yes.

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OK What?
Who was your favorite character

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in The Wizard of Oz?
Dorothy.

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Dorothy.
Dorothy was your favorite.

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Oh, and what did you like about
Dorothy?

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You don't know.
You just liked her.

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That's OK.
What?

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About what was your favorite
song?

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I liked the Lion song.
The Lion song If I Were King of

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the Forest.
Didn't you like one of the songs

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that Dorothy sang too?
I liked that one too.

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Yeah, do you remember what it's
called?

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It's called.
Some.

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Somewhere over a rainbow.
Yeah, right.

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You gotta stay right here,
somewhere over the rainbow.

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That was a pretty song, wasn't
it?

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Yeah.
Yeah.

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Was there something you thought
was funny about The Wizard of

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Oz?
What was funny in it?

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I liked the Lion song.
Yeah, well, yeah, that was your

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favorite song and it was funny.
That was silly.

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Wasn't it was silly.
Do you have anything else you

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want to say about The Wizard of
Oz?

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Don't touch your microphone.
I don't.

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Know.
You don't know?

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OK, well, what about the
adventures of Robin Hood?

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Who is your favorite character
in the ventures of Robin Hood?

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Robin Hood, of course.
Robin of Locksley, Huh.

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Remember, that was his name.
And tell.

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Me this.
What was your favorite part of

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The Adventures of Robin Hood?
I'll touch your mind, you don't

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know Well what were some don't
do that.

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What was your favorite parts of
The Adventures of Robin Hood?

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Something that you liked?
I would like to have it and then

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maybe bring KISS.
You liked it when they kiss.

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What?
Why did?

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You like that?
'Cause I just.

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Did you just did what I did too?
What else did you like?

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Remember what our favorite part
at the end was?

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What?
What happens with Robin Hood and

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Sir Guy?
They.

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Sword.
Fight they sword fight.

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It was cool, huh?
I'm waving at myself.

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You're waving at yourself.
Don't do that with your mic.

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And, oh, what was that other
part?

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Remember when they were getting,
oh, buddy, don't do that.

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Remember when they were getting
the, the treasure wagon?

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What did they do from the trees?
Yeah, they swung on lines.

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That was fun, huh?
It was, it was.

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Do you have anything else to say
about those movies?

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Thanks.
OK, that's fine.

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Do you like watching movies?
Old movies With Mommy and Daddy?

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Yeah.
It's fun, huh?

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All right.
You want to say bye?

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Bye.
You were saying bye to yourself,

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