The New Years Eve bet
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | The New Years Eve bet |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1919 |
| length | 4 acts, 1652 meters, at 18 fps approx. 80 minutes |
| Rod | |
| production | Jacob Beck, German Film Opera Society ("Delog") |
| music | Jean Gilbert |
| camera | Max Fassbender |
| occupation | |
The New Year's Eve bet is a silent film operetta that the Deutsche Lichtspielopern-Gesellschaft (Delog) realized in Berlin in 1919 based on a patent from Jacob Beck. Soubrette Molly Wessely played the leading role . Alongside her, Henry Bender and Paul Westermeier determined the plot. The music was composed by Jean Gilbert (Max Winterfeld).
The New Year's Eve bet was the second attempt by Jacob Beck's Delog-Gesellschaft to establish its own genre, “film operetta” by developing its own material and compositions , after Wer in der Jugend does not kiss (1918).
background
The manuscript and lyrics were written by Willi Wolff and Martin Zickel . Max Fassbender was at the camera . The conductor also photographed was Georg Enders.
The Reichsfilmzensur imposed a youth ban on the film on May 30, 1921 under the number 2567. A press screening took place on January 12, 1919 in Berlin's Kurfürstendamm UT . The film premiered on February 21, 1919 in the premiere cinema of the UFA Tauentzienpalast .
reception
The New Years Eve bet was discussed in:
- The Film No. 51, 1918
- [Das] living picture (lb) No. 20/21, 1919
- Kino-Letters No. 6, 1919
- Cinematograph No. 620, 1919
- Cinematograph No. 629, 1919
- Cinematograph No. 630, 1919
- Cinematograph No. 634, 1919
- Cinematograph No. 642/3, 1919
The creators of the production were just as unsatisfied with the result as the critics. Composer Gilbert and his librettists Wolff and Zickel distanced themselves from her even before the premiere; The critics found the direction, performance and equipment to be inadequate, especially the music and hits. The film critic Egon Jacobsohn wrote: “In any case, this operetta is a failure”.
The film was withdrawn from the schedule after just one week.
literature
- Herbert Birett: Silent film music. Material collection. Deutsche Kinemathek Berlin 1970.
- James zu Hüningen: Beck patent - Article at filmlexikon.uni-kiel.de (Article last changed on October 5, 2012)
- Gerhard Lamprecht: German Silent Films Vol. 19, No. 274
- Untitled: The future of the film operetta. In: The Artist. October 25, 1921 ( online at cinegraph.de)
- Robert Volz: The film operetta. In: The picture manager. 3rd year, 2nd issue, 1925
- Michael Wedel: The German music film. Archeology of a genre. München, Edition Text + Critique 2007. ISBN 978-3883778358 .
- Friedrich von Zglinicki: The way of the film. History of cinematography and its predecessors. Berlin, Rembrandt-Verlag 1956.
Web links
- The New Year's Eve betat The German Early Cinema Database # 34972
- The New Year's Eve bet at filmportal.de
- Michael Wedel: Schizophrenic technique, sensual happiness - synchronization techniques in operetta cinema of the silent film era. cinegraph.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ cf. Film length calculator [1]
- ↑ cf. Wedel p. 70 ff., Birett, silent film music p. 121 (there: A New Year's Eve bet )
- ↑ The film. 3rd vol. No. 32, August 10, 1918, p. 70: "Molly Wessely, the spirited classy soubrette of the Metropoltheater , dominates every scene with her mood ..."
- ↑ cf. Birett, silent film music p. 42: The music was published by Verlag Wrede (Berlin) and contained the songs Oh Miss, what are you going to do alone ?, Every girl needs every now and then, Do you want to chase happiness, You whistle without love To life and just once I would like to kiss you. The New Year's Eve Waltz and a potpourri also appeared in the arrangement by Max Rhode .
- ↑ cf. Wedel p. 112 f.
- ↑ Information according to GECD # 34972
- ↑ cf. Zglinicki p. 439 f.
- ↑ cf. Zglinicki p. 449
- ↑ Information according to GECD # 34972
- ↑ cf. Wedel p. 113
- ↑ in: Der Kinematograph No. 634, 12th year, February 26, 1919