DMB Deutsche Mutoskop- und Biograph GmbH

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The DMB German Mutoskop- and biographer GmbH was a German film company that gave hundreds of films from 1898 to 1924 and produced.

history

The company, mostly known as Deutsche Mutoskop for short , was originally founded by Curt Harzer on March 14, 1898 as a German subsidiary of the US parent company International Mutoscope and Biograph Syndicate to sell American Mutoscope licenses in Germany. The German offshoot had to pay an annual fee to the US parent company for this activity, but otherwise worked at its own risk. In January 1906 the company was taken over by the Deutsche Automaten-Gesellschaft Hartwig & Vogel , which ran the Stollwerck chocolate factory in Dresden. Initially (1906-07) to the German Mutoskop- and biographer GmbH focused on the sale of cinematographic Mutoscope -Vorführgeräte. Shortly thereafter, the company began producing its own short films, which until 1910 were predominantly documentary and topical in nature. At the beginning of the 1910s, the Deutsche Mutoskop- und Biograph shifted more and more to film production, but remained active in the distribution business until 1919. In Berlin-Lankwitz at Zietenstrasse 10, the first large film studio was built, a 700 m 2 glass hall on a multi-storey substructure.

Under the commercial and artistic direction of General Director Paul von Woringens , who had been appointed since January 1911 , one of the early Berlin film comedians, Gerhard Dammann , shot his first humoresque in the Mutoskop studio in 1911, which was very popular with the public. In 1912, the Mutoskop began producing much more ambitious materials, including several national-patriotic materials and adaptations to literature. Shortly after the Theodor-Körner film with Friedrich Fehér in the leading role, Franz Porten directed the prestigious historical three-part series The Film by Queen Luise . The following year the nationalist ideological pieces Das Blutgeld and Aus Deutschlands Ruhmestagen 1870/71 followed , which had a similar tenor, but also several film adaptations with Fehér in the role of director: Emilia Galotti (after Gotthold Ephraim Lessing ) and Die Räuber, Kabale und Liebe and The Liberation of Switzerland and the legend of Wilhelm Tell (all based on Friedrich Schiller ). Lotte Neumann has been the company's female star since the First World War, and Erich Kaiser-Titz in particular has been cast as the leading actor several times. None of these films is of outstanding artistic importance.

In the course of the late 1910s, the Berlin-Lankwitz company lost more and more of its importance, especially since with the emergence of the UFA in 1917, there was excessive competition. The continuous Mutoskop film production finally ended at the beginning of 1921, accompanied by von Woringen's departure from the company. After that, only one or two Mutoskop films were made until 1923/24. After the studio was temporarily largely unused, in 1922 it became the property of Muto-Großatelier für Filmproduktion GmbH, a joint venture between Flora-Film GmbH, Deutsche Mutoskop- und Biograph GmbH, Fern Andra Film-Atelier Georg Bluen & Co. and Lixie Film-Atelier Weißensee GmbH.

Mutoskop films (small selection)

  • 1900: Emperor Franz Joseph enters Berlin
  • 1901: Empress Friedrich's mourning conduct
  • 1902: Crown Prince Wilhelm opens the Düsseldorf exhibition
  • 1904: The robbery murder in the Spandau shipping canal near Berlin
  • 1905: Odin coastal tank in action
  • 1906: The training ship "Grand Duchess Elisabeth" in Swinoujscie
  • 1907: Bad Halensee
  • 1907: Children's battle
  • 1908: North Sea resort of Borkum
  • 1908: Around Berlin
  • 1909: Out of silent love
  • 1909: daffodils
  • 1910: The shipwrecked
  • 1910: love spell
  • 1910: Soldiers love
  • 1910: duty and love
  • 1911: The strike cup
  • 1911: The bells of Notre Dame
  • 1911: The little hero
  • 1911: Gustav Wasa
  • 1912: the stranger
  • 1912: the doll
  • 1912: Theodor Körner
  • 1912: The film by Queen Luise
  • 1913: The Eye of the Buddha
  • 1913: From Germany's glory days 1870/71
  • 1913: The country road
  • 1913: The blood money
  • 1913: The robbers
  • 1913: Emilia Galotti
  • 1913: The liberation of Switzerland and the legend of Wilhelm Tell
  • 1914: The blue room
  • 1914: The power of conscience
  • 1914: At midnight
  • 1914: German women
  • 1914: In enemy territory
  • 1915: sun and shade
  • 1915: Tamare Castle
  • 1915: The common thread
  • 1915: The iron ring
  • 1915: § 14 BGB
  • 1916: The other
  • 1916: You shall not judge
  • 1916: night and morning
  • 1916: Artur Imhoff
  • 1917: The light in the night
  • 1917: evidence
  • 1917: In the Pacific
  • 1917: the seal
  • 1918: The Hauer trial
  • 1918: The lonely woman
  • 1918: The hour of retaliation
  • 1918: The laughing mask
  • 1919: Hotel Medusa
  • 1919: The invisible guest
  • 1919: Sacrifice of the Heart
  • 1919: The mystery of the unknown
  • 1919: mountain flowers
  • 1920: Sybill Morgan
  • 1920: the winner
  • 1920: your right
  • 1920: At night
  • 1920: The triumph of death
  • 1921: The myopic dowry hunter
  • 1922: The darkness and its property
  • 1923: Between evening and morning
  • 1924: In the shadow of the others

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