Schönbrunn - source of beauty

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Movie
Original title Schönbrunn - source of beauty
Country of production Austria
Publishing year 2002
length 50 minutes
Rod
Director Georg Riha
script Klaus Feichtenberger
production RIHA - FWG Foto-Werbe GmbH - Brains & Pictures
music Noisia (Wolfgang Krsek & Gernot Ursin),
Triology ,
Arista Trio, u. a.
camera Thomas Kirschner,
Georg Riha ,
Rudi Wesely, u. a.
cut Gudrun Nieder
occupation

Schönbrunn - Quelle der Schönheit is an ORF - Universum - Documentation by Georg Riha , produced in coproduction with ORF and ARTE , about the Vienna Schönbrunn Palace , its gardens and the Schönbrunn Zoo , the oldest still existing zoo in the world.

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According to a legend, Emperor Matthias is said to have discovered the spring during one of his hunting trips in 1612 , which later gave the area its name as "Beautiful Fountain". The entire ensemble, to which the palace, the park with its numerous park structures, fountains and figures as well as the zoo are the oldest in the world, is now a listed building and was added to the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1997 . This documentation shows the baroque total work of art of the palace, park, outbuildings, palm house and zoo in the turn of the year, at different times of the day and from varied perspectives. Special attention is always paid to the numerous human - and animal - residents and visitors of Schönbrunn. Sir Peter Ustinov guides you through the film and thus through Schönbrunn . It presents the buildings, residents and historical background and occasionally tells anecdotes - one could almost say “Viennese” little stories - about the imperial family over the centuries.

A compositing towards the end of the film offers a nice overview of the history of Schönbrunn , in which historical footage from the film archive was assembled into current recordings of the windows of the palm house . One gets the impression that history, from the end of the monarchy to the present, is happening in front of the window.

Camera technology

As usual with Georg Riha , a large number of special camera technologies were used for this documentation.

Rope camera

By using the developed Brains & Pictures CamCat - spidercam it was possible the castle , the gardens and the zoo to show from unusual angles. The best example of this is probably the 2-minute one shot at the beginning of the film. The journey begins with a view of the street in front of the castle. A silver-colored jaguar turns off the street into the forecourt and stops there. Sir Peter Ustinov gets out of the car and walks towards the castle. The camera flies over him, follows a jogger who is just passing through the gate of the main entrance and slowly reveals the view of the castle. Arrived in front of it, the camera climbs up over the castle roof and opens up a view of the castle garden and the Gloriette . All of this happens during a continuous journey, without editing or post-processing.

Camera balloon

The camera balloon CAMBLIMP developed by Brains & Pictures repeatedly puts the viewer in a bird's eye view. These recordings, for which the camera was attached to the underside of a hot air balloon , serve primarily as establishing shots .

Timelapse

The use of time-lapse cameras made it possible to illustrate slow events, such as the change of the seasons. For example, the palace gardens and their changes with the seasons are shown again and again.

First broadcast

December 19, 2002, 8.15 p.m., ORF 2

Awards

  • Nature and Wildlife Finalist Certificate at the New York Festivals 2004 - 46th Annual International Film Video awards competition
  • Audience Prize and Prize of the Mayor of Hradec Králové at the 41st International Festival of Films on Science, Technology and Art 2003
  • Best documentary at AFO Academia Film Olomouc 2003 , Czech Republic
  • Best camera at Ekofilm 2003 , Czech Republic
  • 1st place Gold Camera Award at the 36th US International Film and Video Festival 2003

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