You're Missing Out: A National Film Registry Podcast
Jun 11, 2026 · 2 hr 8 min · 10 segments
In the Season 5 finale, Mike, Tom, and Kyle take on Point of Order (1964), Emile de Antonio's radical documentary assembled entirely from kinescope footage of the Army-McCarthy hearings. No narration…
Mike NataleHost
Tom LorenzoHost
Kyle LampardPanelist
Now, this is one of those cases, you know, Kyle is always kind of our, you know, stepping fully onto the mic guest for the end of the season episodes.
This is one that's kind of a, I think a sister pick to last season, because we did Salt of the Earth, talking about the Hollywood 10 and that side of the Red Scare.
And this obviously is a natural sort of pairing with that in that we're dealing with McCarthyism.
But I will say the other reason that I really lean toward this as being like, you know, this should be the one that we have, you know, Kyle wants to talk about that I think is interesting is the sort of found footage aspect of this um and when i say found footage i don't mean in the way that we think of it now i think a lot of people listening to us now when they hear found footage because of blair witch because of paranormal activity they assume that it means found footage is like a you know a fictional film that is made to look like oh we found somebody's camera found footage really just means like you are not producing new footage you are taking film, you know, you're editing it together in new and interesting ways.
A film we would cover in season six called A Movie Where Bruce Connor Does This, Tom Tom the Piper's Son, Elan.
This is an example of making something out of existing footage and transforming it in an interesting way.
up top, For the folks who haven't seen this film and are listening to this, which I assume is a vast majority of people who haven't seen this film.
this is maybe the most difficult to find film that we have done thus far on the program.
Not in a derogatory sense, but ostensibly the least movie-like movie we've watched.
But it is... almost like watching news the news well it's there's a lot of there's a lot of editor editing and whatnot to make it into a movie so like on its face you don't think like like the like i'll say the first time i watched i'm like yeah this is cool but that's because i like this stuff but it's not really a movie it's it's like watching c-span but when you you know watching it again before the recording today, you know, and thinking about it in between viewings, you go like, no, well, yeah, it is a movie because of the editorial choices that had to be made and fine.
And looking at the hours upon hours of footage that were there and seeing the, the three segments, it's basically chopped into three segments and then finding the little moments within each segment to tell this grander story.
But, you know, Even the experimental stuff we watch, you go like, all right, well, that's a movie because somebody had to make that and scratch the film or make those fountains look like jizz.
Now, this is one of those cases, you know, Kyle is always kind of our, you know, stepping fully onto the mic guest for the end of the season episodes.
This is one that's kind of a, I think a sister pick to last season, because we did Salt of the Earth, talking about the Hollywood 10 and that side of the Red Scare.
And this obviously is a natural sort of pairing with that in that we're dealing with McCarthyism.
But I will say the other reason that I really lean toward this as being like, you know, this should be the one that we have, you know, Kyle wants to talk about that I think is interesting is the sort of found footage aspect of this um and when i say found footage i don't mean in the way that we think of it now i think a lot of people listening to us now when they hear found footage because of blair witch because of paranormal activity they assume that it means found footage is like a you know a fictional film that is made to look like oh we found somebody's camera found footage really just means like you are not producing new footage you are taking film, you know, you're editing it together in new and interesting ways.
A film we would cover in season six called A Movie Where Bruce Connor Does This, Tom Tom the Piper's Son, Elan.
This is an example of making something out of existing footage and transforming it in an interesting way.
up top, For the folks who haven't seen this film and are listening to this, which I assume is a vast majority of people who haven't seen this film.
this is maybe the most difficult to find film that we have done thus far on the program.
Not in a derogatory sense, but ostensibly the least movie-like movie we've watched.
But it is... almost like watching news the news well it's there's a lot of there's a lot of editor editing and whatnot to make it into a movie so like on its face you don't think like like the like i'll say the first time i watched i'm like yeah this is cool but that's because i like this stuff but it's not really a movie it's it's like watching c-span but when you you know watching it again before the recording today, you know, and thinking about it in between viewings, you go like, no, well, yeah, it is a movie because of the editorial choices that had to be made and fine.
And looking at the hours upon hours of footage that were there and seeing the, the three segments, it's basically chopped into three segments and then finding the little moments within each segment to tell this grander story.
But, you know, Even the experimental stuff we watch, you go like, all right, well, that's a movie because somebody had to make that and scratch the film or make those fountains look like jizz.
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