Madame Olinka

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Madame Olinka (* in the 19th century ; † in the 20th century ) was a projectionist in the 19th century.

Life

Who was hiding behind the stage name "Madame Olinka" does not seem to be known. Possibly the woman came from East Prussia or western Poland . In any case, she worked with an agent in Wroclaw , through whom she organized her appearances in variety theaters and similar venues. There is evidence of appearances from the early summer of 1896 until 1900, when their tracks suddenly disappear.

Madame Olinka used a projection device from Hermann O. Foersterling ( Berlin ), later she called her device the "Edisongraph". It is possible, however, that this was the device originally used.

Madame Olinka stood on stage during the screenings, at least in the early stages of her career, and commented on the events in the films in a loud voice. She performed with her husband, a hunting assistant who called himself Mr. Hubertus and who accompanied the films with vocals. An early report in the magazine Der Artist describes these presentations: “The cinematograph, which Madame Olinka is showing, is an excellent device that shows us dancing children, marching soldiers, arriving train trains (...) and many other processes like that on the white screen vividly demonstrates in their movements that they appear to us physically, all the more so as Mr. Hubertus, the husband of Madame Olinka, the outstanding imitator of animal voices, knows how to invisibly animate the individual images with noises and tones. "

Appearances

Numerous appearances by Madame Olinka are documented, for example on September 27, 1896 in the Centralhallen-Theater in Hamburg , on October 4, 1896 in the Wilhelm-Theater in Görlitz , on October 25, 1896 in the Flora-Varieté-Theater in Amsterdam , in the middle of November of the same year in The Hague and Rotterdam . In February 1897 her film screenings were shown in the Mellini Theater in Hanover . In spring 1898 she was in Posen , in May 1900 in Halle .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Richard Abel, Encyclopedia of Early Chinema , Routledge Chapman & Hall 2005, ISBN 978-0415234405 , p. 673
  2. ↑ For the history of the Foersterling company see Deac Rossell, Beyond Messter. Cinema Pioneers in Berlin . Madame Olinka must therefore have owned one of the first Foersterling devices.
  3. ↑ http://goldsmiths.academia.edu/DeacRossell/Papers/308889/A_Slippery_Job_travelling_exhibitors_in_early_cinema
  4. ↑ The artist , September 20, 1896, quoted from this online source ( Memento of the original from August 18, 2011 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. . Possibly this is the first evidence of a film noise maker. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.der-geraeuschemacher.de
  5. ^ Ivo Leopold Blom, Jean Desmet and the Early Dutch Film Trade , Amsterdam University Press 2003, ISBN 978-9053564639 , p. 375
  6. ↑ http://www.geschichte-projekte-hannover.de/filmundgeschichte/kinogeschichte/kinogeschichte-hannovers/kinoanfange/wehre-grundungen.html
  7. ↑ http://www.victorian-cinema.net/olinka.htm
personal data
SURNAME Olinka, madame
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Projectionist
DATE OF BIRTH 19th century
DATE OF DEATH 20th century