Listo movie

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Listo Film is based in Vienna-Mariahilf.

The Listo film was an existing 1919-2005 Viennese film company, as since 2005 Listo video film will continue. The company was founded in 1919 as a film production company, but ceased production in the post-war period and has since dedicated itself exclusively to copying films. With the establishment of the subsidiary Listo Videofilm in 1985, the former production company was able to create a new pillar as a specialist in digital post-processing, 3D animation and special effects . In 2005 Listo Videofilm finally took over the film copier, the premises and the estate of Listo Film.

The Listo Film building is one of the oldest surviving film studios in Europe. However, a project started in the 1990s to set up an “Austrian Media Museum” in this building failed.

history

Silent movie era

In 1919 the Jewish merchants Heinrich Moses Li psker and Adolf Sto tter founded Listo Film with the participation of the cigarette tube manufacturer Adolf Ambor , whose name was composed of the initials of the two surnames of the founders. Robert Reich was hired for production management . The establishment of the company fell into that five-year period of Austrian film history in which the post-war - Inflation dropped a film bubble arise, the numerous film companies and around 550 short and feature films spawned. Since the company, unlike most other film producers, had its own, well-developed studio on the top floor, a large number of these films were shot in the Listo studios. The company, which also produced films itself, was therefore one of the most important film companies in Austria in those years.

For example, the pan-film productions Orlac's hands (1924) and Der Rosenkavalier (1926) were shot in the Listo studios. In-house production also made important Jewish silent films, around 1923 East and West by Sidney Goldin with stars of the Yiddish theater, the American Molly Picon and Jacob Kalich in the leading roles. The Jewish identity between assimilation and tradition also played a key role in other productions: The burned Jude (1920), The Crucified (1920, director: Georg Kundert ), in whose plot a young Jewish socialist is ridiculed, ridiculed and driven to madness , or Der Abtrünnige (1927, directed by Alfred Kempf Desci ), in which the main actor Jacob Feldhammer renounces faith. In addition, many comedies and dramas were produced, including dresses make people (1922, directed by Hans Steinhoff), where Hans Moser completed his first film role.

Listo Film was able to survive the collapse of the "film bubble" between 1924 and 1926, which coincided with a pan-European film crisis in the wake of the aggressive expansion policy of US film producers and which meant the end of most of Austria's film companies. In 1922 Lipsker and Stotter left the company and the company was now run by Ambor alone.

Early sound film era, National Socialism and restitution

With the introduction of the sound film in Austria from around 1930, the studio was no longer up to date. The order book also never came close to the level at the beginning of the 1920s, so that Ambor did not invest in converting the studio to the sound film and production was discontinued in 1931. Listo Film limited itself to development and copying work. In 1931, Ambor had the premises adapted for the Robinson, Rubin & Kalwill clothing factory, which operated under the name Erka . In 1935 another area of ​​the building was rented to the Hans Cernik machine works.

After Austria was annexed to National Socialist Germany, the building was " Aryanized ", carried out in 1939 by Robert Huber. In this way he takes over the Erka clothing factory from its Jewish owners. Adolf Ambor, born Abraham Ambor in 1881 in Andrichau , Galicia , emigrated to England in 1938. His partner Mathilde Ruhm und Familie takes over the company and continues production. Listo Film remained undamaged during the war and is expanded to include a recording studio.

Restitution took place after the end of the war : Ambor, who returned to Vienna in 1947, got the building back from Huber and rented it again to the entrepreneurs Robinson, Rubin & Kalwill, who had also returned. However, Ambor showed no ambitions for the continued operation of the film production. This was continued by Mathilde Ruhm until the mid-1950s. From then on the company was active as a film development and copying plant. Ambor died in Vienna in 1961.

Listo Videofilm is founded, Listo Film ends

In 1985, Franziska Appel in the same building with the same logo, together with the Listo film under the direction of Elfriede Posch the Listo video film GesmbH . Initially, the company was active in the post-production and post-production of films, but in the following years it expanded its activity to increasingly specialized fields of film post-production, including computer-generated special effects and animation.

On April 14, 2005, Listo Film, founded in 1919 under the management of Elfriede Posch (niece of Mathilde Ruhm), filed for bankruptcy. However, the company's activities, especially film copying, were taken over by Listo Videofilm.

Today Listo Videofilm works as a film copier and post-processing company for films. Until Synchro Film was founded in 1985, Listo Film owned the only film copier in Vienna.

Film studio

Facade of the building erected in 1893 with the glazed roof studio erected in 1922.

In 1919 the production company moved into a factory building erected in 1893 at Gumpendorfer Strasse 132 and set up a film and copier facility there on the second floor. By 1922, the attic was converted into a 43 by 13 meter (over 500 m²) film studio with a transparent glass and iron construction. It was the largest roof studio in Vienna. It had a freight elevator that could also bring carriages into the studio for filming.

Despite competition from the large studios on Rosenhügel ( Vita-Film , from 1922) and the Sascha film industry in Sievering , mainly smaller films and small and medium-sized scenes in larger productions continued to be produced in the central Listo Film studios.

In the early 1990s, film scholar Ernst Kieninger, in collaboration with architect Manfred Wehdorn, designed a concept for an “Austrian Media Museum - Vienna Dream Factory” in the front wing of the Listo building, which was still free since the Erka moved out . A proponent committee to support the project was formed from the Association of Austrian Film Producers , the Federal Chamber of Commerce, the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Communication Research and Listo Videofilm itself, interest in using seminar rooms on the part of the University of Music and Performing Arts , to which the Film Academy belongs, as well for a media workshop on the part of the Ministry of Education was announced. However, the plans were not implemented. The listed building was renovated from 1997 to 1999 and today, in addition to being used by Listo Videofilm, serves as an office and residential building.

Filmography

Film production

A selection of films from the Listo film production company (no more than the title of many films is known):

  • 1919: They couldn't get together (Director: Ludwig M. Zwingenburg ; co-production with Burg-Film)
  • 1920: The burned Jew
  • 1920: Those who were crucified (Director: Georg Kundert )
  • 1921: The secrets of a big city
  • 1921: Bob Merker's last adventure
  • 1921: Autograph Lilli
  • 1922: Clothes make the man (Director: Hans Steinhoff )
  • 1923: East and West (Direction: Sidney M. Goldin , Ivan Abramson ; coproduction with Picon-Film, New York)
  • 1924: Orlac's hands (Director: Robert Wiene )
  • 1924: From the Far East
  • 1926: Seff on the way to strength and beauty (advertising film for the Wiener Molkerei with the comedian duo Cocl & Seff )
  • 1927: The Renegade (Director: Alfred Kempf-Desci )
  • 1928: Other women (Director: Heinz Hanus ; coproduction with Otto Spitzer Film)
  • 1928: The White Sonata (Direction: Louis Seemann )
  • 1929: Sensation in the Diamond Club
  • 1929: Dedication (Director: Guido Brignone ; co-production with Messtro-Film, Berlin)
  • 1948: Saxa Loquuntur
  • 1953: Die Todesarena (Director: Kurt Meisel ; coproduction with Bristol-Film Heinz Wolff, Munich)
  • 1953: The big guilt
  • 1953: The last contingent
  • 1953: The Peasant Rebel (Director: Alfred Lehner)
  • 1955: Don't worry Franzl (Director: Georg Tressler )

Film copying and post-production

In post production (selection):

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Ernst Kieninger : Project Media Museum , section History of a Place , pp. 3–5, Vienna 1994
  2. ^ Armin Loacker : The forgotten names of the cinema. In: Joachim Riedl : Vienna, City of Jews. Zsolnay Verlag , Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-552-05315-8 , p. 225
  3. ↑ Walter Fritz : In the cinema I experience the world: 100 years of cinema and film in Austria. Brandstätter, Vienna 1997
  4. ↑ www.stummfilm.at ( Memento of the original from September 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. - Film productions with the participation of Listo Film @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.stummfilm.at
  5. ↑ a b c d Joachim Riedl (ed.): Vienna, City of Jews - The world of Aunt Jolesch. Zsolnay Verlag, Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-552-05315-8 , p. 388
  6. ↑ Harry Cain : Bad luck and bankruptcies. Der Standard, May 18, 2005, p. 17
  7. ↑ The future of Austrian film is female ... (PDF; 706 kB) , interviews by Wien-Kultur with Viennese film directors and screenwriters.
  8. ↑ Entry on film in the Austria Forum  (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )
  9. ^ Ernst Kieninger: Projekt Medienmuseum , Vienna 1994
  10. ↑ Publication of the Federal Monuments Office, page 4 ( Memento of the original from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / archiv.bmbwk.gv.at

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