How the cinema takes revenge
| Movie | |
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| Original title | How the cinema takes revenge |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1912 |
| length | 18 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Gustav Trautschold |
| script | Gustav Trautschold based on an idea by Dr. Richard Rhodius |
| production |
Franz Vogel for Eiko-Film GmbH, Berlin |
| camera | Hans Saalfrank |
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How the cinema takes revenge is a short, German silent film comedy from 1912 by and with Gustav Trautschold in the lead role.
action
A particularly feared film censor is a huge annoyance for some filmmakers. In order to finally be able to pay him back for his constant censorship requirements, he is to be shown using film. For this purpose, a young actress is employed who is supposed to entice the allegedly strict man so that he takes "morally reprehensible" actions on her. In order to catch him red-handed and then publicly disavow him, this scene is filmed with a hidden camera.
This insidious act is intended to embarrass the self-appointed guardian and supposedly morally stable guardian of morals at the earliest opportunity. When a favorable situation finally arises for this “punitive action”, the moral apostle is exposed coram publico in a cleverly arranged film showing and convicted of double standards and hypocrisy.
background
How the cinema takes revenge was created in the summer of 1912 under the working title How the Kientopp takes revenge on the Baltic Sea and in the Komet-Film-Atelier at Müllerstrasse 182, at the corner of Sellerstrasse. The viraged film was produced by Eiko Film GmbH (No. 11). It has a length of one act at 345 meters or 340 meters (approx. 18 to 19 minutes), 19 subtitles and is still preserved. The cost was 385.00 marks, which corresponds to approx. 2,048 euros. The Berlin police imposed a youth ban on him on August 30, 1912 (No. 12.37). The premiere in the USA took place on October 12, 1912.
A second, slightly longer part was shot by director Trautschold immediately afterwards and was shown in Wilhelmine cinemas at the end of March 1913.
Reviews
Almost a century later, the assessment of this film said: How the cinema takes revenge was “a film of programmatic polemics. (...) With remarkable self-confidence, the new medium defends the right to the freedom of the image by taking up the honest unmasking gesture and turning it against its author. The suspicion is that Hanns Kräly, one of the actors, was also involved in the book uncredited. Kitty Derwall, the free-spirited actress of this seductive comedy, joins a long series of female roles, whose emancipatory character Heide Schlüpmann has sufficiently appreciated in her study "The Uncanny Look". "
“The third short film How the Kientopp Revenges (by Gustav Traugold, D 1911/12) also has this piquant coloring. Here, too, the humor and plot are simple. But it also gives us a picture of the beginnings of cinema and the difficulties that the new medium encountered. Not everyone was open to him. There were societies that declared war on cinematography in the name of morality. The film shows how the filmmakers use the means in their field to defend themselves against the arguments of their opponents (morality). "
Web links
- As the cinema takes revenge in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- How the cinema takes revenge on The German Early Cinema Database
- How the cinema takes revenge on filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ The cinema owners successfully defended themselves against this (in their eyes disparaging) title.
- ↑ How the cinema takes revenge on The German Early Cinema Database
- ↑ As the movie takes revenge in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- ↑ Film length calculator , frame rate : 16 2/3
- ↑ Thomas Brandlmeier in CineGraph: Early German Comedy Film 1895-1917
- ↑ Culture from the Upper Palatinate and Lower Bavaria ( Memento of the original from December 31, 2015 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.
