Sign up for The A.V. Club's free newsletter to have the best TV, film, and news stories sent straight to your inbox. From its inception in 1908 with Émile Cohl’s ...
Reid Mitenbuler is the author of Bourbon Empire. His writing has appeared in the Atlantic, the Daily Beast, Slate, Quartz, Salon, and other publications. He lives with his wife in Los Angeles "In 1911 ...