Count Dohna and his seagull

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Cover picture of the photo book Graf Dohna und seine Möwe 1917. All photos in the book come from the documentary film Graf Dohna und seine Möwe.
Movie
Original title Count Dohna and his seagull
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1917
length 50 min. Minutes
Rod
production Image and Film Office (BUFA) (Berlin)
camera Lieutenant Wolf, Petty Officer Meyersberg

Graf Dohna und seine Möwe is a German documentary that was shot for propaganda purposes by the BUFA Image and Film Office from November 1916 to March 1917 on board the auxiliary cruiser SMS Möve in the Atlantic . The world premiere took place on May 2, 1917 in the German Opera House in Berlin .

action

The film documents the auxiliary cruiser's second trip to the Atlantic. Numerous shipwrecks are shown, such as B. the French barque Nantes , scenes on board the auxiliary cruiser such. B. the embarkation of prisoners of war or the takeover of coal from raised prizes .

reception

Advertisement for Count Dohna and his seagull from: Der Film , 1917, number 16, p. 71

The film was heavily advertised in Oldenburg by the Apollo Cinema from May 30, 1917 in the news for town and country with unusually large-format advertisements and was shown three times a day from June 11 to 21 without any further program. The contemporary criticism criticized the length of the film and the lack of professionalism in the editing .

Lore

As far as is known (as of 2013), there is only one four-minute fragment in German archives that was edited by Walther Hubatsch in 1980 .

See also

literature

  • Hans Brennert : Count Dohna and his seagull. 60 pictures from the 2nd "Seagull" trip. After film recordings by Lieutenant Wolf, I. Officier SMH "Möwe". Eysler, Berlin 1917.
  • The seagull movie. The festival performance in the "German Opera House", Charlottenburg. At the same time some basic explanations about military-official films. In: The film. Journal for the general interests of cinematography. No. 19, 1917, ZDB -ID 575768-x , p. 48 ff.
  • News for town and country. Various issues from June 1917.
  • City of Oldenburg-Stadtarchiv (ed.): Oldenburg 1914-1918. A source volume on the everyday, social, military and mental history of the city of Oldenburg during the First World War (Publications of the Oldenburg City Archives, Vol. 7), Oldenburg (Isensee) 2014. ISBN 978-3-7308-1080-4

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