The Old Song (1920)

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Movie
Original title The old song
Country of production Germany
Publishing year 1920
length 5 acts, 1185 meters, at 20 fps around 52 minutes
Rod
Director Karl Otto Krause
script Karl Otto Krause
production Karl Otto Krause for Karl Otto Krause-Film (Berlin)
music Luigi Arditi , Franz Abt , Stanislao Gastaldon , Béla Lásky , Giuseppe Verdi and Richard Wagner
camera Kurt Lande
occupation

The old song is the title of a song movie. which Karl-Otto Krause realized in 1919 in his own production and based on his own script. The synchronization process based on the Beck patent, which was developed in 1910, was used. Songs and opera arias by Luigi Arditi , Franz Abt , Stanislao Gastaldon , Béla Lásky , Giuseppe Verdi and Richard Wagner were heard . You could see the gentlemen Charles Willy Kayser and Siegfried Adler , the ladies Elisabeth Balzer and Lo Kapp.

action

Artist's love for a tenor who is struck with a chronic sore throat and fails together with his partner. As part of this play, the following are performed: the Parla waltz by Arditi, the hall aria and the homecoming aria from Wagner's “Thannhäuser”, etc. a. m.

background

Kurt Lande took care of the photography . The conductor who was also photographed during the recordings was Georg Enders. Alfred Schink conducted the orchestra at the performance in Halle; Margit Ulla and Kurt Schönert sang.

“The old song, great film singspiel in 5 acts by Karl Otto Krause” was submitted to the Reich Film Censorship on July 23, 1920 and passed under the number 163 as not for minors. It was performed on January 9, 1920 in the “Schauburg” in Halle.

reception

The film was reviewed in:

  • The German film Vol. 3 No. 17th
  • Film and press No. 16, 1920
  • Photo stage No. 4, 1920
  • Film technology No. 4, 1920
  • Film Courier No. 9, 1920
  • Photo stage No. 2, 1920
  • Photo stage No. 4, 1920

Frank wrote in Film-Kurier No. 91 on January 11, 1920: “In the context of a simple, perhaps a little too sentimental plot, Karl Otto Krause composed an appealing film singspiel, skilfully using older songs and interweaving entire opera scenes. At the center of the piece is a pair of singers and lovers who, through no fault of their own, get into misery and perish due to a chronic throat disease of the tenor. "

“The focus of the now only rudimentary dramatized events of films like“ Das alten Lied ”(1919)…, in which entire opera scenes were often reproduced, were mostly tenors or operetta divas who had to exist episodically interspersed love adventures between their appearances . ”. According to Wedel, such singing / vocal films from the silent film era gave rise to the later singer and tenor films of the early sound films.

literature

  • Herbert Birett: Silent film music. Material collection. Deutsche Kinemathek, Berlin 1970, pp. 50, 135 (on Karl Otto Krause)
  • Johannes Bunk: German Theater in Liegnitz. (= Contributions to the history of Liegnitz. Volume 22). Verlag Henske-Neumann, 1994, ISBN 3-9801894-8-1 , pp. 109, 111, 113.
  • James zu Hüningen: Beck patent. In: filmlexikon.uni-kiel.de
  • Gerhart Lamprecht: German silent films. Volume 19, No. 37.
  • Heinz-Hermann Meyer: singer film. In: filmlexikon.uni-kiel.de
  • Katja Uhlenbrok (Red.): MusikSpektakelFilm. Music theater and dance culture in German film (1922–1937). Edition Text + Criticism, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-88377-598-3 .
  • Michael Wedel: Schizophrenic technique, sensual happiness. Film opera, film operetta, film singing game. In: Katja Uhlenbrok (Red.): MusikSpektakelFilm. Music theater and dance culture in German film (1922–1937).
  • Michael Wedel: The German music film. Archeology of a genre. Edition Text + Criticism, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-88377-835-8 .
  • Friedrich von Zglinicki: The way of the film. History of cinematography and its predecessors. Rembrandt Verlag, Berlin 1956.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ has nothing to do with the well-known song of the same name by the composer Henry Love [artist name for Hilde Loewe-Flatter , originally Hilda Löwi (1895–1976)], which was only written in 1927
  2. ↑ The two most important producers of singing films in Germany were the "Karl-Otto Krause-Film" and the "Sing-Film GmbH" of the composer and conductor Georg Enders and his librettist Hans Felsing. They also coined the term 'Singfilm', to which 'Gesangsfilm' was used as an alternative, cf. Wedel music film p. 117.
  3. ↑ was director of the city theater in Liegnitz / Silesia, managing director of DELOG, the Deutsche Lichtspieloper-Gesellschaft, and musical director, cf. Wedel Musikfilm p. 79 f., Later director of "Karl-Otto Krause-Film", cf. ibid pp. 118, 168.
  4. ↑ DRP 242.852 of November 28, 1911. See Zglinicki p. 293, Wedel Musikfilm p. 70 f., On Hüningen in: filmlexikon.uni-kiel.de
  5. ↑ Actress and singer, was the first wife of the tenor Eduard Lichtenstein, cf. Eduard Lichtenstein at Operissimo  on the basis of the Great Singer LexiconTemplate: Operissimo / maintenance / use of parameter 2 ; a theater ticket from the Volksbühne e. V. with her from 1920 online at zvab.com ( Memento from October 27, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ↑ so GECD # 17410
  7. ↑ appears together with Adolf Secker and Fritz Gartz in the list of Kapellmeister at NORAG Nordische Rundfunk AG on January 1, 1926, cf. Organization chart. Nordische Rundfunk AG (NORAG). ( Memento from June 3, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  8. ↑ so GECD # 17410
  9. ↑ Information according to GECD # 17410
  10. ↑ cf. Wedel music film p. 117.
  11. ↑ cf. Wedel Musikfilm p. 182, note 219
  12. ↑ z. B. about star tenors such as Richard Tauber , Benjamino Gigli or Jan Kiepura , cf. Article “ Singer film” at filmlexikon.uni-kiel.de