"From Edison films catalog: Four young ladies, in their nightgowns, are having a romp. One of the pillows gets torn, and the feathers fly all over the room...1897."

Found in the Library of Congress collection at YouTube when I was looking for some film of Annie Oakley, to use in the previous post. I did find an Annie Oakley clip — from 1894 — but I just didn't think it was interesting enough. But here.

Maybe you think that's more interesting than 4 young ladies, in their nightgowns, having a romp in 1897." To me, it's more interesting that, in the first decade of movie-making, the idea of girls pillow-fighting came up. Filming a famous performer is obviously something you'd want to do. 

Kanye West envisions a "Coliseum for God" with 100,000 gospel singers and imitates the sound of 100,000 people singing "glory, glory" in unison.

I've just clipped out one section of this podcast, so please listen to the end of my cut. There's some great stuff about running everything on water and how we would all be happy by now if Edison had not defeated Tesla: