Meissen porcelain (film)

Movie
Original title	Meissen porcelain
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Publishing year	1906
Rod
Director	Franz Porten
script	Leo Herzberg
production	Oskar Messter
music	Karl Alfredy (music) Leo Herzberg (lyrics)
camera	Carl Froelich
occupation
Henny Porten : lady Rosa Porten : Cavalier

Meißner porcelain ( Salon-Gavotte by C. Alfredy ) was a German "Biophon" clay picture from 1906.

background

The film was about 77 meters long on a roll of film , which corresponds to about four minutes running time. The production company Oskar Messters Projektions GmbH Berlin of Oskar Messter produced this film. The recordings took place in Messter's film studio at Friedrichstrasse 16, Berlin. The gramophone record was produced by Deutsche Grammophon Aktiengesellschaft Berlin especially for Messter. Of the title-giving dance, a 'Salon'- was shown Gavotte of the composer Karl Alfredy . The first performance was in 1906, the film was re-censored on January 16, 1909. It was the first appearance for Rosa and Henny Porten .

literature

• Gerhard Lamprecht: German Silent Films 1903–1912. Deutsche Kinemathek e. V., Berlin 1969.
• Michael Wedel: The German music film. Archeology of a Genre 1914–1945. Boxed 476 p.m. Abb., Munich, Edition Text and Criticism, Rich. Boorberg Verlag 2007, ISBN 3-88377-835-4 , ISBN 978-3-88377-835-8 , KNV title number: 16277371.
• Friedrich v. Zglinicki: The way of the film. The history of cinematography and its predecessors. With 890 illustrations. Berlin, Rembrandt Verlag, 1956.

See also

• Apache dance

Web links

• Meissner porcelain at filmportal.de
• Meissner porcelain at The German Early Cinema Database
• Meissen porcelain in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Photo , ca.1908: Oskar Messter in his audio studio in Berlin
• Biophon record made for Messter by Deutsche Grammophon [2]
• Photo by Rosa Porten, Atelier A. Binder Berlin [3]
• Photo by Henny Porten (artist postcard, around 1910)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ See article at grammophon-platten.de [1] .
2. ↑ Film length calculator , frame rate : 16 2/3.
3. ↑ See Wedel pp. 71 f., 91, 345; Zglinicki pp. 281-284, esp. 283.
4. ↑ See label: “Special recording for Biophon”.