Alfred Duskes

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Alfred Duskes (born February 17, 1882 in Halberstadt , † October 20, 1942 in New York City ) was a film pioneer, cinematographer manufacturer and film producer during the silent era .

Life

Duskes was born in Halberstadt in 1882 . He lived in the USA for several years before returning to Germany in the mid-1890s, where he settled in Berlin. Here, as the inventor and manufacturer of technical devices and as a dealer in films, cinema accessories and 'talking machines', he quickly became part of the flourishing film industry. In 1905 he founded Alfred Duskes GmbH in Berlin, Blumenstrasse 77. It was the first production company to loan its films to cinemas and not just sell them. His recording company was located in Wedding at Sellerstraße 35 (Rex Atelier). This was directed by Charles Paulus , who was also his cameraman. His film architect was from 1906 to 1909 Kurt Dürnhöfer , who, however, went to Oskar Messter in 1910 .

During this time, the business address of Duskes Kinematographen und Film-Fabriken GmbH from 1908 changed frequently. In 1909 Duskes had a studio in Markgrafenstrasse. 94 (Mutoskop-Atelier). In February 1912 he dissolved the GmbH. To this end, he founded Literaria Film on December 28, 1912 . He also acquired many film technology patents, e.g. B. 1907 the synchronizing device Cinephon for the presentation of sound images. For a while he competed in this then flourishing business area with Oskar Messter and his needle-tone apparatus "Biophon", for whose patents he tried in 1908 with Messter.

In the years between 1907 and 1912, Duskes produced numerous sound images with scenes and songs from operas, but above all from operettas that were popular at the time (such as Die Fledermaus by Johann Strauss , Ein Walzertraum by Oscar Straus , Die Dollarprinzessin and Der jolly Bauer by Leo Fall ) and Revues (e.g. the devil laughs at it or you have to see that from Victor Hollaender ), in which z. Some well-known performers from the 1910s could be seen and heard.

In addition to feature films and sound images, Duskes also produced recordings of current events such as state visits, sporting events, airship and elevated railway accidents; his film with the shoemaker Wilhelm Voigt, Captain von Köpenick (1908) became famous . As early as 1906 he had realized the story of the theater with the theater owner Ernst Baumann in the title role as a feature film, after the cinematograph manufacturer Carl Buderus had also filmed a short silent film satire on the case in 1906.

In January 1922 , Duskes and Karl Julius Fritzsche founded the "Essex Film Corporation GmbH" especially for the production of the large-scale production of Der Graf von Essex .

After the Nazis came to power, Alfred Duskes initially stayed in Paris and emigrated from there to the USA in October 1935.

Filmography

Sound images

• 1907: The devil laughs: Do you want to be my cousin? (Sound image) in Guido Seeber's cinema program ; a recording with Brunhilde Ellis and Max Walden on Dacapo Record D 2062 from 1908 at gramofononline.de [14] , label shown at [15] , picture by Max Walden at [16]
• 1908: xylophone solo (audio)
• 1908: Viennese laundry girl ball (sound image) [dance scene and whistle solo]
• 1908: Rigoletto: Oh, how so deceptive (sound image)
• 1908: Dase reindeer with his nose (audio)
• 1908 Fiaker song (sound image)
• 1908: Navaho (sound image) [American song and dance company]
• 1908: Musical clown (sound image)
• 1908: Barracks courtyard scene (sound image)
• 1908: Margarethe (Faust): Quartet (sound image)
• 1908: In the realm of Indra: Once upon a time (audio)
• 1908: Court music (sound image)
• 1908: Heinrich and Karline: Duet (audio)
• 1908: A waltz dream (sound image)
• 1908: A waltz dream (sound image)
• 1908: A waltz dream (sound image)
• 1908: A waltz dream (sound image)
• 1908: Detective Duet (audio)
• 1908: Ringelreihen-Duett from Die Dollarprinzessin (Leo Fall)
• 1908: Your Highness Radishes: Am Manzanares (sound image)
• 1908: Through the telescope of Saint Peter (sound image)
• 1908: The Troubadour: In our homeland (audio)
• 1908: The Troubadour: My Last Breath (sound image)
• 1908: The Bat: My Lord Marquis (audio)
• 1908: The jolly farmer: We were the three of us. Infantryman and artilleryman and cavalryman (sound image)
• 1908: The merry farmer: everyone has their bundle (sound image)
• 1908: The merry farmer: I've got my Zipfelhaub'n (audio image)
• 1908: The merry farmer: Heinerle, mein Heinerle (sound image)
• 1908: The merry farmer: The great rowdy scene (audio)
• 1908: The happy farmer: Buab and dirndl (audio)
• 1908: The merry farmer: farmers march (audio)
• 1908 You have to see that: the strolling company (sound image)
• 1908: The hearts of Berlin women (audio)
• 1908: Happy New Year 1909 (audio)
• 1909: Siegwart Gentes (sound image)
• 1909: Die Fledermaus: Terzett Mir ist so late (audio image)
• 1909: Only in the dark is good rumor (sound image)
• 1909: Merkel's facial expressions: heads of state (audio image)
• 1909: Sailors dance (audio)
• 1909: Manicure duet (sound image)
• 1909: The brave soldier: The little praline soldier. When a man compromises a girl (audio)
• 1910: Gypsy love. Dear man, follow me (sound image)
• 1910: Scottish dances (sound image)
• 1910: Kulicke in the orchestra box (sound image)
• 1910: laughing and crying (audio)
• 1910: The Merry Husband (sound image)
• 1911: composers (audio)
• 1911: A dance lesson from the Rococo period (sound image)
• 1912: In front of the ladies' bath (sound image)

Feature films

• 1905: Road robbery by automobile
• 1905: The new errand boy
• 1906: The captain of Köpenick
• 1907: A sheet from the Book of Life
• 1908: Rauch
• 1908: After the battle
• 1908: Hussar fever
• 1908: The stolen bride
• 1908: The farmer and death
• 1909: guilt and atonement
• 1909: After the tattoo
• 1909: Margarete
• 1909: Lehmann learns to do magic
• 1909: homesickness
• 1909: a desperate remedy
• 1909: A novel from life
• 1909: The fateful pants
• 1909: The discovery of the North Pole by Kulicke and Lehmann
• 1909: A poor girl's novel
• 1909: The love letter
• 1909: Don Juan marries
• 1909: The blind banker
• 1909: The deceived Othello
• 1909: The big lot
• 1909: The lucky horseshoe
• 1909: Arabic dance drops
• 1909: Klebolin sticks everything
• 1910: too late
• 1910: Game shooter revenge
• 1910: How Schneider Fips became king
• 1910: How to Make Love
• 1910: Destiny
• 1910: oblivion
• 1910: Nudelmayer's engagement day
• 1910: Johann poisoned himself
• 1910: Under the spell of alcohol
• 1910: Brownies
• 1910: Happy family man
• 1910: Georg von Friedland
• 1910: An accident in the nursery
• 1910: a childhood dream
• 1910: A good child is adopted
• 1910: The magic hat
• 1910: The world is ending
• 1910: The smuggler's sister
• 1910: The power of beauty
• 1910: The beggar woman
• 1910: The second shot
• 1910: Shy Willy
• 1910: The rival
• 1910: The rotary worm is discovered
• 1910: Poor Bastian
• 1910: The power powder
• 1910: Chroschenka
• 1910: Adventure of the Lehmann family in Luna Park
• 1911: bleeding to death
• 1911: The mother's last night watch
• 1911: The thief
• 1911: That upset Berlin
• 1911: The girl without honor
• 1911: The Curse of Sin
• 1912: Diary of a lost woman
• 1912: self-directed
• 1912: guilty
• 1912: riddle of the heart
• 1912: Youth storms
• 1912: Miss Boss
• 1912: an uninvited guest
• 1912: The secret agent
• 1912: The way of death
• 1912: Ukko Till, the art shooter
• 1912: The God Who Kills
• 1912: The god of vengeance
• 1912: The flight for life
• 1912: A woman's sacrifice
• 1912: The poison of love
• 1912: The brand of her past, also: The Apache Bride
• 1912: From the diary of a secret agent
• 1912: Farewell
• 1913: The Sphinx
• 1913: wrong ways
• 1913: You should honor your father and mother
• 1913: Lost happiness in life
• 1913: Chaining
• 1913: rights of the heart
• 1913: At dusk
• 1913: A mother's heart
• 1913: The top queen
• 1913: the spider
• 1913: The Queen of Sheba
• 1913: The cabaret queen
• 1913: The great top queen
• 1913: The eternal wound
• 1913: That fools happiness
• 1913: The joke in the film
• 1913: The stable master
• 1913: The suffering of a loving woman
• 1913: The department store girl
• 1913: Life a novel
• 1913: The grave on the heath
• 1913: On an incline
• 1913: On the wrong track
• 1914: Delilah. Children of the Eifel (after Clara Viebig )
• 1915: The American way
• 1916: The rose of the wild
• 1917: Sulamith
• 1917: There is only one thing in the world that is eternal - love
• 1917: The world is just one mood. Illusion of love
• 1917: The wooden spoon countess
• 1918: The Eskimo Baby
• 1918: The speaking hand
• 1918: The story of a lace shawl
• 1918: The newborn father
• 1918: The poison of the Odawara
• 1922: The Earl of Essex

News pictures

• 1908: Trotting in Weissensee near Berlin 1908
• 1908: Thompson's wonderfully trained elephants
• 1908: Launch of the North German Lloyd steamer George Washington from the Vulkan in Stettin on November 12, 1908
• 1908: His Royal Highness Prince Heinrich first zeppelin trip
• 1908: Wrestlers in the cinematograph: International wrestling match 1908
• 1908: Life and goings-on in the famous spa town of Karlsbad
• 1908: International wrestling matches 1908
• 1908: Graf Zeppelin with Zeppelin 1
• 1908: Terrible catastrophe on the elevated railway in Berlin on September 26, 1908, at 2 a.m.
• 1908: Festivities on the occasion of the marriage of Prince August Wilhelm to Princess Alexandra Viktoria in Berlin
• 1908: A trip to the Schneeberg
• 1908: The Parseval balloon disaster
• 1908: Dog breeding in Zahna
• 1908: The captain of Köpenick
• 1908: The Gordon Bennett balloon competition in Berlin-Schmargendorf on October 10, 11 and 12, 1908
• 1908: The Messina earthquake
• 1908: American club jugglers
• 1909: Shipbuilding in Denmark
• 1909: Messina, also: The destruction of Messina
• 1909: Edward VII of England in Berlin
• 1909: The German imperial family in Corfu
• 1909: The English royal couple in Berlin on February 9, 1909
• 1910: trip to the north
• 1910: The Zeppelin airship disaster
• 1910: Reception of the Tsar [Nicholas II.) In the New Palace in Potsdam
• 1910: The police dog, its training and performance
• 1912: Training as a cabin boy
• 1912: Winter pictures from Upper Bavaria

literature

• Richard Abel (Ed.): Encyclopedia of Early Cinema. Illustrated edition, new edition. Taylor & Francis Publisher, 2005. ISBN 978-0-415-23440-5 . Here p. 195 (Michael Wedel).
• Thomas Elsaesser, Michael Wedel: A Second Life: German Cinema's First Decades. Amsterdam University Press, 1996. ISBN 978-90-5356-172-0 . Here pp. 19, 26, 56–57, 67, 79–80, 82, 104, 219, 299
• Heinrich Fraenkel: Immortal Film. The great chronicle. From the magic lantern to the sound film. Part of the picture by Wilhelm Winckel. Kindler, Munich 1956. Here pp. 60, 183, 380–384
• Helmut Herbst, Stiftung Deutsche Kinemathek Berlin (Hrsg.): The moving picture. The film pioneer Guido Seeber. EP 23, Elefantenpress Verlag GmbH. Berlin (West) 1979
• Wolfgang Jansen: Splendid revues of the twenties. Berlin: Edition Hentrich 1987 (= sites of the history of Berlin, vol. 25) ISBN 3-926175-34-6
• Jennifer M. Kapczynski, Michael D. Richardson: A New History of German Cinema. Boydell & Brewer, 2014. Here p. 17, 653
• Alison McMahan: Alice Guy Blaché: Lost Visionary of the Cinema. Women make cinema. Bloomsbury Publishing USA, 2014. ISBN 978-1-5013-0269-5 . Here p. 68 [wrongly as Alfred Dusker ]
• Dominique Nasta, Didier Huvelle (eds.): Le son en perspective: nouvelles recherches. (= Edition 1 of Repenser le cinéma , ISSN  1379-8391 ), illustrated edition. Verlag Peter Lang, 2004. ISBN 978-90-5201-208-7 . Here p. 119 (French)
• Ulrike Oppelt: Film and Propaganda in the First World War. Propaganda as media reality in topical and documentary films. (= Volume 10 of Contributions to the History of Communication, ISSN  1617-853X ), illustrated edition. Franz Steiner Verlag 2002. ISBN 978-3-515-08029-3 .
• Karsten Steiger: Opera Discography. Complete Catalog of Audio and Video Recordings of Complete Operas. Verlag Walter de Gruyter, 2008. ISBN 978-3-11-095596-5 .
• Michael Wedel: The German music film. Archeology of a genre. Munich, Edition Text + Critique 2007, ISBN 978-3-88377-835-8 .

Web links

• Alfred Duskes at filmportal.de
• Alfred Duskes in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Berlin film studios: Duskes studio
• Antti Alanen: Wednesday, October 8, 2014: Tonbilder from the Neumayer Collection. In: blogspot.de
• Antti Alanen: Monday, October 5, 2015: Tonbilder from the Neumayer Collection 2. In: blogspot.de
• DIF Deutsches Filminstitut: Early sound images [List of copies digitized by DIF: Films by Deutsche Mutoscop and Biograph GmbH, Deutsche Bioscop GmbH and Alfred Duskes] [17]
• Duskes film factory at GECD [18]
• Rainer E. Lotz: German sound images [19]
• Postcard with a film scene "Cinephone recording for cinematograph and film factory Alfred Duskes Berlin", approx. 1908 (Deutsches Historisches Museum, inventory no. F 58 / 472.6) [20]
• Image Cinephon Starkton Record by Alfred Duskes [21] (accessed December 10, 2015)
• Sound image "Do you want to be my cousin?" (D 1907) from the "fantastic satyrical revue" "The devil laughs at it" by Victor Hollaender [22] Copy: German Film Institute (unfortunately not with the corresponding original plate!)
• Sound image "Before the ladies bath" (D 1912) by Duskes on youtube [23]
• Sound image "Return from the parade" (D 19?) [24] Copy: German Film Institute
• Audio fragment (possibly the Duskes film Der Bettelstudent, Large Scene I. Act: Appearance of Colonel Ollendorf: “Oh, I just kissed her on the shoulder” with Franz Porten, 1908, GECD # 1647), cf. Jeanpaul Goergen, Deutsche Kinemathek, December 5, 2008 [25]

Individual evidence

the references to GECD apply to "The German Early Cinema Database" [26]

1. ↑ Source: Application for Naturalization, Declaration of Intention No. 330903, issued in New York on July 31, 1939, ancestry.com.
2. ↑ Source: New York City Death Index, ancestry.com.
3. ↑ Life, death, and migration data on ancestry.com
4. ↑ cf. Mebold at blogspot.com (Oct. 5, 2015); “Talking machines” was the umbrella term for cylinder phonographs and (record) gramophones.
5. ↑ Chronology of the film on Filmportal.de
6. ↑ Alfred Duskes biography on cinegraph.de
7. ↑ Thomas Elsaesser, Michael Wedel: A Second Life: German Cinema's First Decades. Amsterdam University Press, 1996. ISBN 978-90-5356-172-0 . P. 67
8. ↑ cf. Ulrike Oppelt: Film and Propaganda in the First World War. Propaganda as media reality in topical and documentary films. (= Volume 10 of Contributions to the History of Communication, ISSN  1617-853X ), illustrated edition. Franz Steiner Verlag 2002. ISBN 978-3-515-08029-3 . S. 205, on the term see Michael Wedel: Der deutsche Musikfilm. Archeology of a genre. Munich, Edition Text + Critique 2007, ISBN 978-3-88377-835-8 . P. 58f .; Fig. Of a “Cinephon” sound image gramophone record from Duskes at lotz-verlag.de [1] , a sound image system with projector and gramophone at john-goodwin.com Archive link ( Memento of the original from August 21, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info : The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
9. ↑ cf. Anke Mebold: "The majority of these early sound films were produced by two companies, Deutsche Bioscop and Deutsche Mutoskop und Biograph, with smaller output by Messter, Duskes, Vitascope, and Internationale Kinematograph- und Lichtbild-Gesellschaft." (GCM catalog and website : Anke Mebold) at Antti Alanen: Wednesday, October 8, 2014: Tonbilder from the Neumayer Collection. In: blogspot.de ; also Heinrich Fraenkel: Immortal Film. The great chronicle. From the magic lantern to the sound film. Part of the picture by Wilhelm Winckel. Kindler, Munich 1956. p. 384
10. ↑ cf. moviemoviesite.com 29/8/1903: Oskar Makes a Noise. - ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. : "However, competitors soon began to move in on such a lucrative market and Messter quickly found himself swamped by competition. Alfred Duskes produced the Cinephon, German Mutoskop and Biograph marketed the Ton Biograph developed by Karl Geyer, Guido Seeber produced the Seeberophon. " 
11. ^ Richard Abel (Ed.): Encyclopedia of Early Cinema. Illustrated edition, new edition. Taylor & Francis Publisher, 2005. ISBN 978-0-415-23440-5 . P. 195
12. ↑ cf. on this koepenickia.de archive link ( Memento of the original from April 28, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ; GECD # 5837: The Captain von Köpenick (1908) . The case also stimulated record manufacturers to make appropriate recordings, e. B. Star Record, which brought out a commemorative plaque for Wilhelm Voigt's release from prison on August 16, 1908, on which he himself spoke: to be heard on youtube [2] and [3] 
13. ↑ cf. GECD # 5835: The Captain von Köpenick (1906). Author of the manuscript and direction: Heinrich Bolten-Baeckers , camera: Charles Paulus, architect: Kurt Dürnhöfer. The performance was banned by the Berlin police on August 21, 1908.
14. ^ Essex Film Corporation GmbH, Commercial Register Berlin HRB No. 24865
15. ↑ Duet hit from the Victor Hollaender revue Der Teufel laughs at it ; according to GECD # 13973: The devil laughs at it (1907)
16. ↑ according to GECD # 16570: Xylophonsolo (1908) is played by the xylophone virtuoso Albert Müller , who has also recorded numerous gramophone records, e.g. B. the art rider gallop (a side piece to the circus Renz -Galopp): Albert Müller, xylophone solo. Accompaniment: Seidler's orchestra. International Zonophone Company, Zonophon No. 26 751 (Matrix number 266), approx. 1905. Can be heard at dismarc-audio.org [4]
17. ↑ according to GECD # 11966: Rigoletto (1908) sings Enrico Caruso here
18. ↑ by Wilhelm Aletter there was a song about the red nose that began "Heard from the reindeer Dahse ..."; the chansonnier Robert Steidl recorded it on G&T 2-42 605 (mx. 652) (“Schauerliche barrel organ ballad from the reindeer Dahse”), possibly it was based on Duskes' film, in which according to the description at GECD # 11891: Reindeer Dase mit der Nase (1908) "The nose glows in a wonderful alpine glow". The film was colored.
19. ↑ by Gustav Pick . According to GECD # 4150: Fiakerlied (1908) Adolf Kühns sings. This baritone and comedian actually sang the Fiakerlied on November 15, 1907 in Vienna on Edison Goldguss roller # 15 857, which came out in 1908, cf. H. König August 10, 2014 [5]
20. ↑ according to GECD # 9433: Margarete (1908) sing Emmy Destinn , Paul Knüpfer , Ida von Scheele-Müller and Karl Jörn here
21. ↑ according to GECD # 6703: In the Reiche des Indra (1908) Siegmund Lieban sings here
22. ↑ according to GECD # 5904: Heinrich and Karline (1908) with Emmy Wehlen and Emil Sondermann
23. ↑ according to GECD # 15744: A waltz dream (1908) the song Gstellte Mädln (= Duskes No. 209)
24. ↑ according to GECD # 15745: Ein Walzertraum (1908) the song Leise, sehr leise (= Duskes No. 210)
25. ↑ according to GECD # 15746: A waltz dream (1908) the song Oh du Ganz g'hauter Fratz (= Duskes No. 212)
26. ↑ according to GECD # 15747: A waltz dream (1908) the song chamberwoman and waltz fairy (= Duskes No. 211)
27. ↑ according to GECD # 2575: Detective Duet (1908) with Helene Ballot and Emil Sondermann
28. ↑ according to GECD # 2691: The Dollar Princess (1908) sang Arnold Rieck and Helene Winter
29. ↑ according to GECD # 2969: Highness Radieschen (1908) Emil Justitz sings the song from the equipment posse Highness Radieschen (1904) by Julius Freund. Music by Victor Hollaender. As a song “Newest repertoire piece Metropol-Theater, Berlin. Sung by Josef Josephi ”. See Theaterwiss. Collection Schloss Wahn INV.-NO .: M 1268 Archive link ( Memento of the original from March 10, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
30. ↑ according to GECD # 14415: The Troubadour (1908) sings Enrico Caruso
31. ↑ according to GECD # 14416: The Troubadour (1908) sings Enrico Caruso
32. ↑ according to GECD # 4238: Die Fledermaus (1908) sings here Gertrud Runge , at that time "Grand Ducal Weimar court opera singer"; a recording on Homokord No. 1467 (C12T) (November 19, 2012 A) to be heard at dismarc.org [6] , label at [7]
33. ↑ according to GECD # 4159: Der Fidele Bauer (1908) with Louise Kartousch and Max Pallenberg , directed by Franz Glawatsch
34. ↑ according to GECD # 4160: Der Fidele Bauer (1908) with Grete Diercks
35. ↑ from the revue by Victor Hollaender and Julius Freund in the Metropol-Theater Berlin 1907. Cf. Wolfgang Jansen: Brilliant revues of the twenties. Berlin: Edition Hentrich 1987 (= sites of the history of Berlin, vol. 25) ISBN 3-926175-34-6 . P. 28 [image]
36. ↑ according to GECD # 6113: Die Herzen der Berliner Frauen (1908) sang the operetta tenor Josef Josephi , eigtl. Ichhäuser; Portrait of the artist at kaar.at Archived copy ( memento of the original from March 6, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
37. ↑ according to GECD # 11492: Prosit Neujahr 1909 (1908) appeared in it: Emmy Wehlen, Helene Ballot, Arnold Rieck, Emil Sondermann and Marchand
38. ^ Siegwart Gentes was a German humorist; according to GECD # 13126: Siegwart Gentes (1909) he offers here a Saharet parody ; a sheet music title from Ghent's popular couplet Mensch Sie haben ne Vest on at dreiraaben.de - ( Memento of the original from 23 September 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed October 10, 2014) 
39. ↑ according to GECD # 4244: Die Fledermaus (1909) are singing by Edmund Binder and Hermine Hoffmann ; the one-sided Cinephone Starkton accompanying plate shown. on ebay http://thumbs1.ebaystatic.com/d/l225/m/mfHPUaDEI6kJV4Hx84kMteg.jpg ( Memento from July 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed October 15, 2014)
40. ↑ according to GECD # 10665: Only in the dark is good rumors (1909) Josef Fleischmann sings here
41. ↑ On Willy Merkel, Mimiker cf. GECD # 16825: For the fiftieth birthday of the German emperor, SM (1909) "For the fiftieth birthday of the German emperor," (1909): pantomime imitates several heads of state.
42. ↑ The brave soldier , also: The little praline soldier was an operetta (1908) based on a play by George Bernard Shaw with the music of Oscar Straus , which was called The Chocolate Soldier in the Anglophone world ; later it became known as a musical under the title Heroes and was filmed in Germany in 1958 with Liselotte Pulver .
43. ↑ from Franz Lehár's operetta Zigeunerliebe from 1910; according to GECD # 16745: Zigeunerliebe (1910) Albert Kutzner sings here : a picture postcard of the singer at: German Historical Museum [8]
44. ↑ the original couplet was a brilliant number by comedian Guido Thielscher from the Metropol-Theater Berlin, which he also spoke on gramophone record (Odeon X 51 934/35), cf. youtube [9]
45. ↑ Ueberbrettl duet , cf. Helmut Herbst, Stiftung Deutsche Kinemathek Berlin (Hrsg.): The moving picture. The film pioneer Guido Seeber. EP 23, Elefantenpress Verlag GmbH. Berlin (West) 1979. p. 39, where the film appears as Singing Photography in Guido Seeber's program
46. ↑ according to GECD # 8061: Composers (1911) with the mimic Willy Merkel, who introduces Richard Wagner , and two unknowns as "Waltz King" Johann Strauss and "March King" John Philip Sousa
47. ↑ cf. Helmut Herbst, Stiftung Deutsche Kinemathek Berlin (Hrsg.): The moving picture. The film pioneer Guido Seeber. EP 23, Elefantenpress Verlag GmbH. Berlin (West) 1979. p. 54
48. ↑ GECD # 19470: The branding of their past (1912) , directed by Paul Otto , with Paul Heidemann , cf. steffi-line [10] : "Then came director Duskes, who entrusted me with a leading role in the film" The Apache Bride or The Red Joel ". When I first saw myself on screen, I didn't like myself at all. "
49. ↑ According to GECD # 11985: Wrestlers in the cinematograph: Internationaler Wrestling 1908 (1908) the wrestlers [Simon] Antonitsch and Tom Belling. A photo of Antonitsch on ebay Objets trouvés similaires à «Photo ca 1910 Simon Antonitsch 2 13 meters 125 kg wrestler world champion» ( Memento from December 4, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed October 10, 2014)
50. ↑ z. B. Duet, "Unterm Paraplui" (No. 78) (Duskes - DE, c. 1908), record 12 ". From 35mm nitro copy, c. 57 m. (Orig. Censorship length:?). ≠ Sound: DMA ( digitization from audiocassette, Rainer Lotz Collection; 2:54 min. @? rpm)
51. ↑ Copy: Deutsches Filminstitut (unfortunately not underlaid with the associated original plate). The German Early Cinema Database GECD states 1907 as the year of production and names a film of the same name from 1910: [11] , cf. “Wilhelminischer Humor” at lautreamont Pro @ September 14, 2014 [12]  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  

Remarks

1. ↑ cf. Kurt Dürnhöfer : “In 1906 he joined the cinematograph manufacturer and film veteran Alfred Duskes. For Duskes he furnished numerous early sound pictures and one-act plays. In 1910 he switched to Messter. "
2. ↑ Der Hauptmann von Köpenick (Buderus, 1906) , on this Thomas Brandlmeier, Early German Film Comedy, at cinegraph [13] : “You can see from the subjects how much fun it is for them to show how the subject state functions down to the comic. "