Apache Dance (1906)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Apache dance |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1906 |
| length | 3 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Albert Kutzner |
| production | Oskar Messter |
| music | Jacques Offenbach ? |
| occupation | |
Apache dance was a German "Biophon" sound image from 1906 .
background
The film was about 60 or 52 meters long on a roll of film , about three minutes. The production company Oskar Messters Projektions GmbH Berlin of Oskar Messter produced this film. The recordings took place in Messter's film studio at Friedrichstrasse 16, Berlin. The gramophone record was produced by Deutsche Grammophon Aktiengesellschaft Berlin especially for Messter. An 'Apache dance' was shown, as the members of the Parisian underworld, who called themselves Apaches and have nothing in common with the Indian tribe in North America but the name, used to do it from around the turn of the century to the end of the First World War . However, the film was only censored the day before Christmas 1910.
See also
literature
- Gerhard Lamprecht : German silent films. 1903-1912. Deutsche Kinemathek e. V., Berlin 1969.
- Fred Ritzel: SYNCOPIC DANCES. About imports of popular music from America in the period before the First World War . Oldenburg 1999.
- Michael Wedel: The German music film. Archeology of a Genre 1914–1945 . Boxed 476 p.m. Abb., Munich, Edition Text and Criticism, Rich. Boorberg Verlag 2007 - ISBN 3-88377-835-4 , ISBN 978-3-88377-835-8 , KNV title number: 16277371.
- Friedrich v. Zglinicki: The way of the film. The history of cinematography and its predecessors . With 890 illustrations. Berlin, Rembrandt Verlag, 1956.
Web links
- Apachentanz at filmportal.de
- Apachentanz at The German Early Cinema Database
- Apache dance in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Photo, ca.1908: Oskar Messter in his audio studio in Berlin
- Biophone record produced by Deutsche Grammophon for measuring staff
- Dennis Basaldella: On the trail of sound images . An interview with Dirk Förstner from the Deutsche Kinemathek in Berlin. In: Fragment Film from December 21, 2012.
Individual evidence
- ↑ cf. Article at grammophon-platten.de .
- ↑ Film length calculator, frame rate: 16 2/3 .
- ↑ cf. Wedel pp. 71 f., 91, 345; Zglinicki pp. 281-284.
- ↑ cf. Label: "Special recording for Biophon".
- ↑ Arthur Dupin, a journalist, is said to have used the term “Apache” for the first time in an article in 1902 and in his descriptions of the Parisian milieu “Les Apaches de Belleville” . See ludersocke.blog.de ( Memento from February 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ and which soon came to vaudeville theaters as a fashionable dance number, cf. on this article "From Paris" by Fritz Treusch, in Hamburger Nachrichten of March 20, 1911 (HN / 134Ab / March 20, 2011): "The Apache dance has been one of the inevitable" artistic achievements "in the small Tingeltangels and the great music- Halls. The character comedian Max Dearly and the Mistinguett first trained him "artfully". Now you can and must enjoy it in every Montmatre nightspot ” (quoted from ludersocke.blog.de ( Memento from February 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive )); Ritzel, Synkopen Tänze 1999, leads the Apache dance by Jacques Offenbach (“La Valse chaloupée”).