The flight around the globe

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Movie
Original title The flight around the globe, 1st part - Paris to Ceylon, 2nd part - India, Europe
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1925
length 1st part: 5 acts, 2649 m, 2nd part: 5 acts, 2646 m, each approx. 90 minutes
Rod
Director Willi Wolff
script Willi Wolff, Robert Liebmann
production Ellen Richter-Film GmbH. Berlin
music Walter Kollo
camera Werner Brandes
occupation

The flight around the globe is the title of a two-part German adventure film that Willi Wolff made in 1924/25, based on a script that he wrote together with Robert Liebmann , for his wife Ellen Richter's production company - and with her in the lead role - in original locations . Otto Erdmann and Hans Sohnle created the film structures. Werner Brandes was in front of the camera. In addition to its travel pictures, the film's attractiveness increased a number of popular actors, including Bruno Kastner , Hans Brausewetter , Reinhold Schünzel and Max Landa . For comic relief ensured Hermann Picha and the popular Berlin folk actor Henry Bender . The Berlin composer Walter Kollo wrote the film music for it.

action

The "famous Ellen Richter world travel film" takes the plane from Paris via Genoa and Suez to Aden (Part I), via Colombo, Singapore, Canton, Yokohama, Honolulu and San Francisco to New York and back to France via Brest Paris (part II). The attractive travel pictures are inserted into an exciting framework story:

In order to outdo his competitors, William Renard, the financially strong owner of an aircraft factory, announces that his machines would be able to fly around the world in just 20 days. On the other hand, his competitor Rix claims that his planes only need 13 days. Renard accepts the challenge, but not without obstructing Rix in every possible way. When Rix has an accident on a test flight and is seriously injured, his energetic sister Ellinor wants to take the flight instead. But Ellinor's mechanic has been bought by Renard and tries to sabotage the flight. Despite numerous obstacles, the brave woman succeeds again and again in mastering the dangers of the journey and thus winning the competition in favor of the Rix company.

background

The film may have been inspired by a project that a year earlier a group of American Army aviators around Lowell H. Smith and Erik H. Nelson had started; they had started on April 6, 1924 with four Douglas DWC torpedo bombers from Seattle for the first flight around the world. For them, the aim was to demonstrate the capabilities of the modern aircraft as a means of transport. Two of the machines reached their destination Seattle again after 157 days and a flight distance of 44,000 km. Before the two Americans, five other nations tried to circumnavigate the world, but sooner or later they all had to give up. For the cinema audience, for example, the topic of "flight around the globe" was almost 'in the air'.

“The flight around the globe” was submitted to the test center for censorship on February 27, 1925. The premiere of the first part was in Berlin on March 6th, the second on March 20th, 1925, both in UT Kurfürstendamm and UT Turmstrasse. The film was awarded by Universum Film AG UFA . It was shown all over Europe; in France it was called Le Raid en avion .

Walter Kollo wrote the film hit Die Mädchen by Tsching Tschang Fu , to which Willi Wolff wrote the text. It is received in a recording with the saxophone orchestra “Dobbri” on the Beka record B.5283 (mx. 32 798).

reception

"Ellen Richter never made a film at all without traveling far abroad. So her husband and director Willi Wolff became the creator of the globetrotting films. We went to Cairo, to the pyramids, with the adventurers from the film“ The Flight Around the Globe ”in 1924/25 came back to Paris from Giza, into the desert, to Suez, to Ceylon, British India, back India, Singapore, to the Sunda Islands, to China, San Francisco, New York and across the Azores. " (Kalbus 1935, p. 49)

“Pleasant performances from Ellen Richter and especially from Hans Brausewetter” (tlb-10 (France), August 24, 2005)

The film, which originally consisted of two parts, was carefully restored and broadcast as a serial in 6 episodes of 45 minutes each between January and February 1997 on the cultural channel ARTE ; the only existing version broadcast by ARTE has French subtitles and is now also available as a DVD edition.

The American painter and film director Julian Schnabel used footage from the film in his 2007 film " Butterfly and Diving Bell " (original title "Le scaphandre et le papillon").

literature

  • Herbert Birett: Silent film music. Material collection. Deutsche Kinemathek, Berlin 1970.
  • Rudmer Canjels: Distributing Silent Film Serials: Local Practices, Changing Forms, Cultural Transformation. Rutledge Advances in Film Studies. Routledge Publishing, 2011, ISBN 978-1-136-83735-7 , p. 240, note 65.
  • Oskar Kalbus: On becoming German film art - the silent film. Published by the cigarette picture service Altona-Bahrenfeld. 1935.
  • Hans Helmut Prinzler: Chronicle, 1895-2004. In: Wolfgang Jacobsen, Anton Kaes, Hans Helmut Prinzler (Hrsg.): History of German film. 2nd, updated and expanded edition. Metzler 2004, Stuttgart.
  • Kay Less: "In life, more is taken from you than is given ..." Lexicon of filmmakers who emigrated from Germany and Austria 1933 to 1945: A general overview. ACABUS Verlag, 2011, ISBN 978-3-86282-049-8 , p. 111 (Werner Brandes), p. 295 (Max Landa), p. 423 f. (Ellen Richter), p. 451 (Reinhold Schünzel).
  • Friedrich v. Zglinicki: The way of the film. The history of cinematography and its predecessors. Rembrandt-Verlag, Berlin 1956.

Web links

Illustrations

  • Illustrated film courier for “The flight around the globe, part 1. From Paris to Ceylon”
  • Movie poster polet okoli sveta by Peter Kocjančič, 1925 (National and University Library Ljubljana)
  • Reinhold Schünzel as Louis Renard in: The flight around the globe. 1. From Paris to Ceylon
  • Reinhold Schünzel as Louis Renard in: The flight around the globe. 2. India - Europe

Republication

  • DVD edition by Lobster Films: “Der Flug um den Erdball”, Germany 1924/25, in the series "Retour-de-Flamme" 1 - 6, Edition Filmmuseum containing episode 1, 23 '/ episode 2, 24' / episode 3, 22 '/ Episode 4, 28' / Episode 5, 22 '/ Episode 6, 21'. Viraged, with musical accompaniment: Eric Le Guen at the piano .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ see Zglinicki p. 412.
  2. ↑ cf. on this, circumnavigation of the world , planeterde.de ( Memento of the original from April 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , funkzentrum.de and Douglas DWC @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.planeterde.de
  3. ↑ Union Theater, opened on October 3, 1911, 1000 seats, cf. Prinzler, Chronicle, quoted. according to: filmportal.de filmportal.de , Zglinicki p. 439 f.
  4. ↑ cf. Cinema poster from Slovenia pot okoli sveta ; Title in Greece Ο γυρος του κοσμου με αεροπλανων / O gyros tou kosmou me aeroplanon imdb.com
  5. ↑ cf. The flight around the globe. ( Memento of April 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) at: cinema.encyclopedie.films.bifi.fr
  6. ↑ published in Berlin: Edition Vuvag 24/28; First line: "Where are the most beautiful girls in the world ...?", Cf. Birett p. 49.
  7. ↑ recorded by Carl Lindström AG, Berlin SO.33, Schlesische Straße 26, on April 8, 1925, cf. Zwarg Discography PARLOPHON Matrix Numbers - 30173 to 34999: German, sp. 344
  8. ↑ cf. imdb.com
  9. ↑ cf. kabeleins.de ( Memento of the original from April 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kabeleins.de
  10. ↑ according to imdb.com