The bear from Baskerville

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Movie
Original title The bear from Baskerville
Country of production German Empire
original language German
Publishing year 1915
length 3 acts, 1198 meters, at 24 fps 44 min. / 1319 meters, at 16 fps 68 minutes
Rod
Director Harry Piel
script Harry Piel
production Paul Davidson
occupation

The Bear of Baskerville is the title of a German silent film crime drama that Harry Piel directed in 1915 for Pallas-Film in collaboration with Paul Davidson's PAGU based on his own script and with himself in the lead role. The film title, which is based on the 1903 detective story " The Dog of Baskerville " by Arthur Conan Doyle , was chosen on purpose.

action

An aristocrat will not be happy about the estate that he has just inherited, because it is burdened with a family curse in the form of a mysterious and dangerous bear who roams the property at night and spreads fear and terror. The nobleman calls on the detective Sherlock Holmes, who manages to solve the case. (Table of contents IMDb)

background

The film was made in the spring of 1915 in the PAGU studio in Berlin-Tempelhof. Details of the cast, with the exception of Piel, are not known; the name of the cameraman is also not known. It could have been Anton Mülleneisen from Cologne , who began his career as a photographer at Harry Piels Filmgesellschaft.

The police in Berlin banned the showing of the film for the time of the First World War under the censorship number 15.20.

Piels stunt became famous, in which he steers an automobile over the edge of a precipice.

According to GECD # 18502, the film only had 3 acts and measured 1,000 meters. The archive version at the Murnau Foundation is 1319 meters long and plays 49 minutes. The IMDb specifies a playing time of 68 minutes for Austria.

According to Ken Wlashin, the film ran at the Pordenone Silent Film Festival in 1990. In 1995 the Fürth cinema cooperative showed him in their “Kino im Krawattenhaus” from January 6th to 8th in three performances with piano accompaniment by three different musicians.

On Friday, August 11, 2006, at 10 p.m., “The Bear from Baskerville” was presented as part of the exhibition “Harry Piel - a film star from Benrath” from August 11 to August 13, 2006 in the courtyard of the Museum of European Garden Art , Düsseldorf-Benrath listed.

reception

The film is mentioned in the Lichtbildbühne No. 7, 1915 and is registered with Herbert Birett, directory of films run in Germany, (Munich) No. 206, 1915; at Lamprecht in Volume 15 as No. 45.

In the Drei-Mohren-Kino in the town of Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz the "detective drama from the diary of Sherlock Holmes" was part of the program alongside the drama "Im Banne der passion", two humoresques and the "newest war (weeks) show" from August 12th to 13th, 1916.

In Denmark, the film was first shown on September 4, 1916 under the title Den grønne bil - Baskerville-bjørnens mysterium (German: The green car - The secret of the Baskerville bear).

literature

  • Herbert Birett: Directory of films run in Germany. Film censorship decisions 1911–1920; Berlin, Hamburg, Munich, Stuttgart. Verlag Saur, Munich et al. 1980, ISBN 3-598-10067-1 .
  • Matias Bleckman: Harry Piel, a cinema myth and its time. Filminstitut der Landeshauptstadt Düsseldorf, 1992, ISBN 3-929098-01-6 , p. 445.
  • Charles Brownson: The Figure of the Detective: A Literary History and Analysis. McFarland Verlag, 2014, ISBN 978-0-7864-7769-2 , p. 50 (table)
  • Sebastian Hesse: Camera eye and nose: the detective in early German cinema. Verlag Stroemfeld / Roter Stern, 2003, ISBN 3-87877-765-5 , p. 94f. u. 268.
  • Gerhard Lamprecht: German Silent Films 1895–1931. Volume 15, No. 45.
  • Esther Sabelus: “The” white slave: media presentations of sexuality and the big city around 1900. Panama Verlag, 2009, ISBN 978-3-938714-05-8 , p. 206.
  • Heide Schlüpmann, German Film Museum Frankfurt am Main: the uncanny look. The drama of early German cinema. Verlag Stroemfeld / Roter Stern, 1990, ISBN 3-87877-373-0 , p. 363.
  • Werner G. Schmidtke: Billy Jenkins, a "true" hero: Reality a. Imagination e. unusual Life (= texts on the story of the booklet. Volume 2). Graff Verlag, 1979, ISBN 3-87273-031-2 .
  • Ken Wlaschin: Silent Mystery and Detective Movies: A Comprehensive Filmography. McFarland Verlag, 2009, ISBN 978-0-7864-4350-5 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ IMDb : "When a nobleman is threatened by a family curse on his newly inherited estate, Sherlock Holmes is hired to investigate." ; see. on the other hand, the synopsis of the Murnau Foundation : “A man forced by his father to marry an unloved woman leaves his wife shortly after marriage to live with his lover. She wants to take revenge on him and his wife, but is the victim of her own revenge. "
  2. ↑ cf. in addition “Berliner Filmateliers: UFA Tempelhof” at cinegraph.de
  3. ↑ cf. GECD # 18502
  4. ↑ Wlaschin p. 23; to Piel stunts and his stunt man see. Schmidtke: Billy Jenkins, p. 26.
  5. ↑ so Murnau Foundation . This playing time is measured with sound film speed; With the image frequency of approx. 16 fps that was usual at the time of creation, you would get around 68 minutes.
  6. ↑ cf. IMDb / technical
  7. ↑ so Wlaschin p. 24: "The film survives in an archive and was screened at the Pordenone Silent Film festival in 1990."
  8. ↑ Bernd Noack: From the "Kino im Krawattenhaus" to the "Uferpalast". August 29, 2013 at nordbayern.de
  9. ^ "Exhibition about film star" (August 9, 2006) at rp-online.de/
  10. ↑ Frank Präger at stadtarchive-metropolregion-nuernberg.de (July 29, 2016): "Exactly one year and eleven months before the start of the First World War, the Neumarkt" Kinematograph zu den 3 Mohren "was opened, Neumarkt's first movie theater."
  11. ↑ Neumarkter Tagblatt. No. 184, August 12, 1916 to August 13, 1916 in the stadtarchiv.neumarkt.de : Film 1: Under the spell of passion. Drama in 3 acts. Film 2: In the bus. Humorous. Film 3: The Archer. Humor. Film 4: The Latest War Show. Film 5: The Bear from Baskerville. Detective drama in 3 acts from the diary of Sherlock Holmes.
  12. ↑ cf. IMDb / release info