The sleeping machine
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | The sleeping machine |
| Country of production | Germany |
| Publishing year | 1918 |
| length | 4 acts, 1425 meters, at 16 fps 78 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Valy Arnhem |
| script | Paul Rosenhayn |
| production | Atlantic Film Aarhus |
| camera | ? |
| occupation | |
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The Sleeping Machine is the title of a silent crime drama from the Joe Jenkins film series that Valy Arnheim realized in 1918 for Atlantic Film Aarhus GmbH, Berlin, based on a manuscript by Paul Rosenhayn . It was his only directorial work in this detective series. Kurt Brenkendorf played the master detective Joe Jenkins here .
action
Fight for the invention of the swamp gas machine .
background
The production of the Atlantic Film Aarhus GmbH Berlin received after submission to the Berlin police in June 1918 under the no. 42025 youth ban. The Munich police prohibited under No. 28639, 28640, 28641, 28642 the announcement as a detective film for the duration of the war. The film was re-censored in October 1918.
reception
The film was mentioned in
- The film No. 25, 1918
- Cinematograph No. 585, 1918
- Cinematograph No. 599, 1918
- Cinematograph No. 626, 1919
- VUP , June 1918
and is registered with
- Birett, directory of films run in Germany, (Munich) No. 260, 1918; No. 436, 1918 and No. 559, 1918.
Web links
- The sleeping machine in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The sleeping machine at filmportal.de
- The sleeping machine at The German Early Cinema Database # 33008
Illustration
- Picture postcard Photochemie Berlin K 2424 with Kurt Brenkendorf in the film "The Sleeping Machine" (1918).
literature
- Herbert Birett : Directory of films run in Germany. Decisions d. Film censorship in Berlin, Hamburg, Munich, Stuttgart 1911–1920. Saur, Munich 1980.
- Paolo Caneppele: Decisions of the Tyrolean Film Censorship: 1917–1918 (= Volume 2 of decisions of the Tyrolean film censorship, materials on Austrian film history, publisher: Paolo Caneppele, Filmarchiv Austria) Verlag Film Archiv Austria 2003. ISBN 3-901932-21-6 .
- Sebastian Hesse: Camera eye and nose: the detective in early German cinema . Verlag Stroemfeld 2003, ISBN 3-87877-765-5 . P. 249 and 280.
Individual evidence
- ↑ so GECD # 33008. Marsh gas is a German word for methane , which is mainly used as heating gas to generate heat and to operate engines through combustion. The “swamp gas machine” will therefore have been a gas engine that can be operated with methane .
- ↑ Caneppele p. 283 “2435 THE SLEEPING MACHINE A: Messter Film, Berlin: 1520: Detective drama in 4 acts: not suitable for young people; Zl. XI 8/288 with exclusion "