Film program booklet
The film program booklet (also known as the cinema program booklet) is a printed booklet that accompanies movies, which provides information on the cast , staff and a brief insight into the story of the film. Unlike movie magazines , it only deals with movie titles and not other news from the world of film.
Those that are not intended for the audience, but for the cinema owners, represent a special kind of program booklet. Such periodical, for example weekly, printed works are published by independent publishers as well as by the film distributors themselves and contain relevant information on all new films being distributed in order to make it easier for cinema owners to choose a film.
history
The program booklet with information on the content and the actors appearing had been in use in movie theaters since the end of the 19th century.
The first German-language film programs appeared in Austria from 1911 at the latest and in Germany from 1919. They were initially black and white, or using the halftone printing process in which black is replaced by blue, green or sepia tones to give the impression of the old "NC -Films ". From around 1951 there were also colored editions. The program booklet series were gradually discontinued in the Federal Republic of Germany between 1960 and 1969, in the GDR the program booklet series appeared around 1979. In Austria, to this day, film programs are still included for every film that is released in cinemas (series: “New Film Program”, “Filmindex "And" Neuer Filmkurier "). The program booklet series were initially published by publishers , and later also by individual distribution companies who advertised their own films.
In the meantime, almost all traditional film program publishers have discontinued their series (IFB Illustrierte Film-Bühne, for example, ended production at the end of 1969). Thus, many film programs have become rarities, which among collectors achieve a multiple of the original retail price of a few pfennigs.
Filmprogramm magazine has existed since 1977 .
Important programs
Selection of programs from publishers
- Illustrated film courier
- The series was published in 1919 by the United Publishing Companies Franke & Co. KG. Up to 1944 an edition appeared for almost all films shown in Germany.
- Illustrated film stage
- The Illustrierte Film-Bühne (IFB) was founded in Munich in 1946 by the publisher Paul Franke . The programs were often printed in blue, green, brown or red. The last edition was produced in 1969 with the number 8069.
- The new film program
- About 5000 issues of the series Das Neue Filmprogramm were published by H. Klemmer until 1960 as a competitor to the Illustrierte Film-Bühne .
- Progress film program
- In the GDR, the Progress film program appeared from 1950 (first Progress Filmillustrierte , then renamed Film for you from 1966 ).
Selection of programs from the rental companies
- Atlas film booklets
- The publisher was the film distributor of the same name.
- TOP film program
- Six-page program from the Austrian TOP film distributor.
- Rialto film booklet
- Program booklet of the Swiss Rialto film
- Paimann's film lists
- Published in Austria from 1916 to 1965 and has long been an important information medium for cinema operators. As the oldest program booklet in Austria, it now offers important support to Austrian film history research .
Web links
- Film program booklet collection in the archive of the Akademie der Künste, Berlin