Demons of the deep

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Movie
Original title Demons of the deep
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1912
length 3 files, 900 meters, at 16 fps approx. 50 minutes
Rod
Director Harry Piel
script Harry Piel
production Harry Piel
for Kunst-Film-Verlags-GmbH, Düsseldorf-Berlin
camera unknown
occupation

Demons of the Deep is a silent German adventure film directed by Harry Piel from 1912.

Production notes

Demons of the Deep is the successor to Harry Piel's debut work Black Blood, also known as Black Blood. II known. It was created in March 1912 in the Vitascope studio at Grosse Frankfurter Strasse 105 in Berlin . The production manager was Julius Kaftanski . Harry Piel was the producer, author and leading actor.

The police licensing in Berlin imposed on April 20, 1912 under No. 17401, 17402, 17403, 17404 a youth ban. The German premiere took place on June 8, 1912. When it stopped in Austria in December 1912, the kuk police also had cuts made in it.

The 900 meter long film was colored and ran at 16 frames per second for about 50 minutes. He was mentioned in cinematograph No. 280 and No. 288, 1912 and VUP, August 3, 1912; it is listed in Lamprecht, Deutsche Stummfilme Vol. 12 No. 174 and Birett, directory of films run in Germany, (Munich) No. 040, 1912.

Web links

literature

  • Herbert Birett: Directory of films run in Germany. Decisions d. Film censorship: Berlin, Hamburg, Munich, Stuttgart: 1911–1920 . Munich: Saur 1980.
  • Matias Bleckman: Harry Piel: a cinema myth and its time. Publisher: Filminstitut der Landeshauptstadt Düsseldorf, 1992. Length 472 pages.
  • Franz Grafl: Praterbude and Filmpalast: Viennese cinema reading book . Verlag für Gesellschaftskritik, 1993. ISBN 978-3-85115-169-5 , length 203 pages.
  • Gerhard Lamprecht: German Silent Films Vol. 12 No. 174. Deutsche Kinemathek Berlin.

Individual evidence

  1. cf. Bleckman p. 29
  2. cf. Grafl p. 31: "In December 1912 demons of the deep were shown here, which the kuk police had cut with the following reason: The curse of ..."
  3. Information according to GECD # 20034