The roller skating rink
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The roller skating rink |
| Original title | The rink |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1916 |
| length | 2 rolls, 24 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Charlie Chaplin |
| script | Charles Chaplin, Vincent Bryan , Maverick Terrell |
| production | Henry P. Caulfield |
| camera |
Roland Totheroh , George C. Zalibra |
| cut | Charlie Chaplin |
| occupation | |
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The roller skating rink is the German title of the American two-reelers The Rink , which Charlie Chaplin realized in 1916 for Mutual Co. based on his own script (together with Vincent Bryan and Maverick Terrell). The film became known for the roller skating skills that Charles Chaplin was capable of. The roller rink was his eighth film in the Mutual franchise. It was released in US cinemas on December 4, 1916. According to Daniel Kothenschulte , The Roller Skating Rink was the first Chaplin film to be shown in Germany after the First World War .
action
Charlie works as a waiter in a restaurant. After enjoying himself at work by messing up the place, he goes roller-skating on his lunch break.
To do this, he changes clothes and puts on his old tramp robe instead of the waiter's tailcoat. When he tries to button his vest, the order of the buttons no longer matches the buttonholes. But by the time he leaves the pub and steps out onto the street, they fit together again.
Charlie shows what he can do on the roller-skating rink. Mr. Kräftig approaches a girl who is, however, dismissive. His father and wife, like him, had already been guests in the restaurant where Charlie is a waiter. After a ballet on roller skates, in which Charlie, as "Sir Cecil Seltzer", tricked the annoying admirer with skill and elegance despite his physical superiority, he was invited to a company with the girl's parents. Charly is turning this party upside down too.
background
The film was made in the Lone Star Studio , 1751 Glendale Boulevard, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA. The camera work was in the hands of Roland Totheroh , assisted by George C. Zalibra . The equipment was provided by the prop master George Cleethorpe and the scriptwriter ET Mazy . Ed Brewer was the technical director .
The Rink was in America through the Mutual Co. sold. It has been performed across Europe in France, Italy, Spain and Portugal, in Poland and Hungary, in Denmark, Sweden and Finland. In Germany, where it only came to cinemas after the end of the World War, the film was initially shown under titles such as Charlie runs roller-skates and Charlie as roller-skaters .
In 1932, Amedee van Beuren bought Chaplin's mutual comedies from Van Beuren Studios . He added music by Gene Rodemich and Winston Sharples to them , added sound effects and distributed them as sound films through RKO Radio Pictures , without Chaplin being able to take legal action against them.
Reviews
“Moving around on rollers has a long tradition, as our friend here proves in 1916: the film is called 'The Rink' and you can imagine the slapstick potential against such a background even without knowing the short film. Roller skating rinks enjoyed great popularity in the first decades of the last century, especially in Berlin. There were also competitions on wheels in those years. "
“Chaplin shows his talent as a 'stuntman' once again when he presents a lot of hair-raising falls. Everything always looks so simple, but you have to remember that people also had bones back then that could have broken. "
"Chaplin's anti-authoritarian films gave life to the phantasies of his audience. In 'The Count' (1916) and 'The Rink' (1916) he delighted in lambasting the affectations of elite 'society' and and their fawning obsession with European aristocracy. "
“The slapstick is replaced by an element that cannot be found in any other comedian as pronounced and perfect at the same time. It is the element of dance […]. The most splendid example of this can be found in 'The Rink', in which Chaplin takes on roller skates the inevitable battle with the superior opponent in body mass. The way he slips away from him again and again, apparently weightlessly, is thematically based on the Sennett-style chases, but in terms of design it is pure ballet. "
“What is particularly evident with Chaplin is [...] his connection to the Commedia dell'Arte, which has proven itself over centuries : He tirelessly modernizes the figure of the harlequin, whose fidgeting is transformed into various forms of human uncertainty, not only children can easily find immediate access . The commedia repertoire also includes the always slightly sad Colombine as a counterpart and a narrative principle that the commedia and Chaplin keeper of tradition Roberto Begnini briefly outlined with 'fa piangere, fa ridere' - an alternating bath of stirring and making you laugh, that hardly knows age or generation limits. "
Re-performances
The roller skating rink was shown at the Silent Film Music Days in Erlangen along with other short films by Chaplin. They were accompanied by the Nuremberg percussion artist Yogo Pausch .
The roller-skating rink was performed at the silent film festival STUMM & LAUT in Vienna on Saturday, September 10, 2011 on Columbusplatz by the group "Big ears - open eyes" with live electronic music composed especially for the film by KOMPOST2.
The culture channel Arte broadcast Die Rollschuhbahn on December 30, 2013 on German television. The musical accompaniment came from Antonio Coppola.
Several publishers have now brought Die Rollschuhbahn on DVD to retailers.
literature
- hcl: Working on the perfect gag, Chaplin's early work ... In: the standard. November 30, 2009 (online at: derstandard.at )
- Daniel Kothenschulte: Say something big, like elephant for example. In: Frankfurter Rundschau. April 15, 2014.
- Paul Loukides, Linda K. Fuller: Beyond the Stars - Locales in American popular film. Popular Press, 1993, p. 29. (English)
- James L. Neibaur: Early Charlie Chaplin. The Artist as Apprentice at Keystone Studios. (= G-Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Series). Illustrated edition, Verlag Scarecrow Press, Lanham, Maryland / USA 2012, ISBN 978-0-8108-8242-3 , p. 187. (English)
- Steven J. Ross: Hollywood Left and Right. How Movie Stars Shaped American Politics. Oxford University Press, 2011. (English)
- Johannes Schmitt: Charlie Chaplin. A dramaturgical study. Lit-Verlag, Münster 2006, ISBN 3-8258-9317-0 , pp. 12-14 and Note 20, 48, 87.
- Friedrich von Zglinicki: The way of the film. History of cinematography and its predecessors. Rembrandt Verlag, Berlin 1956, pp. 515, 517-520.
Web links
- The Rink at theInternet Movie Database(English)
- The roller skating rink as a complete film in theInternet Archive
Illustrations:
- The roller skating rink at Doctor Macro's High Quality Movie Scans
- 1916 Mutual Co. movie poster
- 1916 Mutual Co. movie poster
- Clark-Cornelius Co. movie poster (re-release)
- Movie poster from France Charlot patine
- Still with Lloyd Bacon and John Rand (in the kitchen, showcase photo by Humboldt-Film GmbH)
- Still with Campbell and Austin (on the roller skating rink)
- Still image with Edna Purviance (on the roller skating rink)
- Still with Campbell and Bergman (at the party)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Loukides-Fuller p. 29 and stummfilmmusiktage.de stummfilmmusiktage.de ( Memento of the original from October 14, 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. : “The film is especially famous for Chaplin's roller-skating skills, with which he will stir millions in a tragicomic manner 15 years later in City Lights . In The Rink , the comedy is still clearly in the foreground ... "
- ↑ Kothenschulte April 15, 2014: “Nevertheless, it took another seven years until the first Chaplin film was shown in Germany. Who could have but one interest in preventing their pleasure? As is so often the case, the evil lay in politics. A ban on imports of American films was the decisive, but not the only obstacle to the fact that Chaplin only had an official German theatrical release in 1921, with a film made in 1916, 'The Roller Skating Rink', 'The Rink'. “'
- ↑ Zglinicki p. 519.
- ↑ WaverBoy, entry # 285, 29 May 2007 silentcomedians.com ( Memento of the original from January 13, 2014 in the web archive archive.today ) 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.
- ↑ as early as 1909, in the stage spectacle 'Hallo - Die große Revue' by Paul Lincke and Julius Freund, there was a 'roll girl song' that couplet singers were already distributing on gramophone records; Listen to an example on youtube youtube.com : Hermann Wehling: 'Rollschuhmädel'. Waltz song from 'Hallo - Die große Revue' by Paul Lincke (first performance 1909 Berlin, Metropoltheater) with orchestra accompaniment. On Mill Opera Record No. 1181 / Matr. 1099.
- ↑ Andreas Wilking: irvb.org ( Memento of the original dated February 11, 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.
- ↑ haikosfilmlexikon.de
- ↑ How Charlot Became, in: Cinema 66/67). at stummfilmmusiktage.de ( memento of the original from October 14, 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.
- ↑ Pausch received the 2003 culture promotion award of the city of Nuremberg, franken-wiki.de
- ↑ groops.at groops.at
- ↑ zdf.de
- ↑ Achim Lewandowski: DVD Recommendation No. 7 - Films with Charlie Chaplin alewand.de
