August Arnold (director)

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August Arnold (born September 12, 1898 in Werfen ; † April 7, 1983 in Munich ) was a German film director , film producer and, as a film technology developer, co-founder of Arnold & Richter Cine Technik (ARRI).

Life

Arnold came from the family of the kk forester Dietrich Arnold. As a student at the old secondary school, today's Oskar-von-Miller-Gymnasium , in Munich, he attracted attention because of his handicraft work, including a film projector. As a schoolboy he assisted Martin Kopp , a cameraman for the Messter Weekly News, and later took on smaller film assignments. With the income from this he bought a film camera, which he rebuilt and improved himself. He also made a film copier together with his schoolmate Robert Richter. From 1916 to 1917 August Arnold studied electrical engineering at the Mittweida technical center . At the age of nineteen he founded the company ARRI ( AR nold & RI chter) together with Richter in 1917 . Arnold and Richter shot over 100 self-produced films with Arnold's camera, including the so-called " Isar - Western " films, later Heimatfilme and films with Karl Valentin . They also rented their upgraded cameras to other producers when they didn't need it themselves. In their own film laboratory, they developed and copied both their own films and films for clients.

From 1924 Arnold & Richter developed film accessories, and from the late 1920s also film cameras. The company grew and took more and more steps in film production and distribution. The technical breakthrough came in 1937 with the legendary Arriflex camera, which Arnold developed together with the engineer Erich Kästner . She introduced the principle of the single-lens reflex camera into film technology; for the first time, the cameraman can see directly what the camera is recording.

Arnold was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit in 1953 and received the Oskar Messner commemorative coin in the same year. In 1961 the Technical University of Munich awarded him the Dr. Ing.hc, in 1965 he and Richter received the Rudolf Diesel Medal together . Probably the greatest honor was the Academy Award of Merit for Arnold and Erich Kästner, which they received in 1983. Before and since then, ARRI had received numerous Scientific and Engineering Awards as part of the Academy Awards , but only Arnold and Kästner received one of the actual Oscars in 1982 .

August Arnold's grave is in the north cemetery in Munich (grave no. 26-4-5).

Awards

Filmography

  • 1918: The Black Jack (camera only)
  • 1920: The Mexican's Revenge (also camera)
  • 1920: The vultures of the gold mines (also camera)
  • 1936: The supplicant (producer)
  • 1937: The antenna wire (producer)
  • 1943: Mountain road construction (producer)
  • 1943: Fire prevention service of the Bavarian. Insurance Chamber (producer)
  • 1943: Home and jungle, freedom and bars (producer)
  • 1943: Visible Air (producer)
  • 1944: Call of Home (producer)
  • 1952: Beautiful Swiss country (producer)
  • 1954: Beautiful Alpine Country (producer)
  • 1956: Flying then and now (producer)
  • 1959: Magic of the Dolomites (producer)
  • 1972: 18 pictures by hand (participation)

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Jump up ↑ Jan-Peter Domschke, Sabine Dorn, Hansgeorg Hofmann, Rosemarie Poch, Marion Stascheit: Mittweida's engineers all over the world . Hochschule Mittweida (Ed.): Mittweida 2014, p. 20 f.
  2. ^ Deutsches Museum: The Arriflex camera from Arnold and Richter , query date: April 2007.
  3. ↑ Nordfriedhof , oliverbarchewitz.de , query date: November 8, 2012.
personal data
SURNAME Arnold, August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German film producer and director, film technology developer
DATE OF BIRTH September 12, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Throw
DATE OF DEATH April 7, 1983
Place of death Munich