Astoria movie
The Astoria film was one of the leading Austrian film production companies during the brief heyday of Austrian silent film between 1918 and 1923. As the first Austrian film production company , the Astoria film directed its own animation division and emerged with a continuous animation production.
history
Astoria Film was founded in November 1918 by director Hans Otto Löwenstein , who acted as the company's director, and Leo Fuchs. Ladislaus Tuszyński , a well-known caricaturist and draftsman and pioneer of Austrian animation at the time, was employed as the artistic advisory board . The studios of Astoria film were first in Brigittenau in the corner lot between Vorgarten- and Marchfeldstraße. The studio later moved to the Hohe Warte .
In February 1920 the management changed and Robert Reich became the new director. In June of the same year he was replaced by Josef Janisch, who hired Heinz Hanus as artistic director and senior director. The animation department was headed by Ladislaus Tuszyński, Peter Eng was hired as a draftsman.
Both pure cartoons were produced, as well as feature films that mixed real film recordings with drawn elements. This is what happened in Amaranta (1922) and Hunt for the Head (1922), both of which were directed by Tuszyński.
In 1923, in the wake of the European film crisis, Astoria-Film was dissolved and merged with Filmwerke AG .
Filmography
Filmography of the Vienna Astoria Film. If known, the director is given in brackets. The following list contains both feature films and cartoons, whereby the cartoons only include those for which the use of cartoons has been proven. Unclear cases are therefore listed under the feature films:
Feature films:
- 1918: dog days
- 1919: Loyalty to death
- 1919: The heir to the throne
- 1920: Earth (Director: Emmerich Hanus )
- 1920: Between 12 and 1 (Director: Heinz Hanus , L. Günthe-Kronmyrth )
- 1920: Under the Knout of Fate (Director: Heinz Hanus)
- 1921: How Satan died (Direction: Heinz Hanus, Otto Rippert )
- 1921: Faith and Home (Director: Emmerich Hanus)
- 1921: How do we get rid of our women
- 1921: Hotel Tartarus (Direction: Hans Otto Löwenstein )
- 1921: The beggar of Montmartre
- 1921: The humped vulture
- 1922: William Ratcliff (Direction: Heinz Hanus)
- 1922: Homo sum (Director: Heinz Hanus)
- 1922: The Count of Monte Christo (Director: Hans Otto Löwenstein)
- 1923: The mistaken pajamas
Cartoons or films that incorporate animation elements:
- 1921: Dwarf Nose (Direction: Heinz Hanus, Ladislaus Tuszyński )
- 1921: The madwoman's wife (Director: Heinz Hanus, Ladislaus Tuszynski)
- 1922: Grim Reaper (director: Heinz Hanus; technical assistance: Ladislaus Tuszynski)
- 1922: Amaranta (Director: Ladislaus Tuszynski)
- 1922: The Hunt for the Head (Direction: Ladislaus Tuszynski)
Individual evidence
- ^ Lisi Frischengruber, Thomas Renoldner : Animated Film in Austria - Part 1: 1900 ~ 1970. ASIFA Austria, Vienna 1998, pp. 14 and 15
- ↑ Frischengruber, Renoldner, p. 16
- ↑ Frischengruber, Renoldner, p. 24
- ↑ a b Astoria-Film in the Internet Movie Database and Astoria-Film ( 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. on Filmportal.de (if no other source is given for individual titles)
- ↑ a b c Walter Fritz : I experience the world in the cinema - 100 years of cinema and film in Austria. Brandstätter, Vienna 1996, p. 297
- ↑ Ludwig Gesek (Ed.): Small Lexicon of Austrian Films. Österreichischer Bundesverlag, Vienna 1959
- ^ A b Sylvia Winkelmeyer: The Austrian cartoon in the silent film era. Diploma thesis, University of Vienna, 2004, p. 135
