Krakatoa (short film)

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Movie
German title Krakatoa
Original title Krakatoa
Country of production United States
Publishing year 1933
length 26 minutes
Rod
production Joe Rock
occupation

Krakatoa is a short documentary film that won the Oscar for Best Short Film - Novelty in 1934 .

Movie subject

The film is about the volcanic island of Krakatau , which lies in a strait between the Indonesian islands of Sumatra and Java . Since 1927, a new volcanic underwater cone was active on the edge of the already existing group of volcanic islands, but in the following years it was not able to rise above sea level permanently. In August 1930 the increased activity of the volcano was enough to form a new part of the archipelago as Anak Krakatau . In September 1932 it was already 47 meters out of the sea, in the year the film was released it was 67 meters, the wide crater of the volcano was a good 700 meters in diameter.

Production and Background

Krakatoa was produced by Joe Rock for Educational Pictures , a film studio that otherwise mainly turned comedies and had, among other things, the former silent film star Buster Keaton under contract. For distribution in the United States , the company was Fox Film Corporation responsible. On the poster accompanying the premiere of the film, the audience was promised “first sensational images of the volcano erupting under the sea”, and the natural spectacle was touted as the “terrifying splendor of the treacherous inferno of the world”.

In 1966 a revised version of the film was created for the Library of Congress . The narrator has now been voiced by actor Joseph Cotten .

Awards

The short film won the Oscar in the category Best Short Film - Novelty at the Academy Awards in 1934 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wild Indonesia . Public Broadcasting Service (English)
  2. ↑ [[: | Replica of the 1933 poster]]