Swiss Film Theater Association
The Swiss Film Theater Association was founded by the film producer and film distributor Joseph Lang on February 15, 1915 as the "Association of Swiss Cinematographers".
As early as December 1914, Joseph Lang had invited all interested parties and those involved in the cinema industry to a meeting in the Restaurant Du Pont in Zurich in order to found an organization and to advise on combat measures that could be used against the "Bern anti-cinema law".
Karl Graf from Bülach, who appeared in the specialist organ at the time "Kinema", which appeared in his publishing house, by calling for a "collection, to ward off serious attacks on the cinema theater industry in the canton of Bern ", had contributed significantly to the establishment of the association. The purpose of the association was initially “to safeguard the common interests of the independent entrepreneurs active in the cinematographic industry and to provide the individual members with all possible assistance to improve their economic existence and to defend their rights of third parties, insofar as this is compatible with safeguarding the common professional interests is ».
On April 17, 1916, the first Ordinary General Assembly took place in Bern, attended by 25 cinema owners and distributors. Hermann Studer from the Volkshaus Bern was elected President and Albert Wyler-Scotoni († 1937) Vice-President. Scotoni was SLV president from 1919 to 1936 and later became its honorary president.
On September 4, 1916, the «Swiss Film Distributors Cooperative» was founded. On June 11, 1917, the name of the association was changed to "Schweizerischer Lichtspieltheaterverband". On November 29, 1921, the French-speaking section "Section Romande" of the Swiss Film Theater Association was founded. This decided on October 19, 1928 to found its own, independent association.
Josef Lang was elected permanent secretary in 1926 and represented the association's interests to the authorities until 1931. On June 30, 1933, the "Associazione Cinematographica Ticinese" was founded in Lugano under the chairmanship of Joseph Lang. Rezzonico from the Kursaal Lugano was elected president. Lang resigned as SLV secretary in 1943.
On April 1, 1937, the specialist publication “Schweizer Film Suisse” appeared for the first time. This was printed by Ernst Löpfe- Benz Verlag.
literature
- 25 years of the Swiss Film Theater Association 1915–1940 . In: Schweizer Film = Film Suisse: official organ of Switzerland. Lichtspieltheater-Verband, German and Italian Switzerland, Vol. 6. 1940, pp. 12-14. ( Digitized version ).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Michael Gautier: Lang, Josef. Historical encyclopedia of Switzerland, accessed on June 13, 2020 .
- ^ Christian Baertschi: Scotoni. Historical encyclopedia of Switzerland, accessed on June 13, 2020 .
- ↑ 1921. SLV group photo. Schweizer Film = Film Suisse: official organ of Switzerland, accessed on June 13, 2020.
- ^ 1943, SLV resignation of Josef Lang. Schweizer Film = Film Suisse: official organ of Switzerland, accessed on June 13, 2020 .
- ↑ 1943, listing of the administrative authorities of the Schw. Lichtspiletheaterverband. Schweizer Film = Film Suisse: official organ of Switzerland, accessed on June 13, 2020 .
- ↑ Schweizer-Film-Suisse. Schweizer Film = Film Suisse: official organ of Switzerland, accessed on June 13, 2020 .