We're switching to Hollywood

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Movie
Original title We're switching to Hollywood
Country of production United States
original language German
Publishing year 1931
length 70 minutes
Rod
Director Frank Reicher
script Paul Morgan
production Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer / rental by Parufamet GmbH
camera Ray Binger, John Arnold
cut Adrienne Fazan
occupation

We're switching to Hollywood is a revue film from 1931. It was produced by MGM especially for the German-speaking market and uses passages from The Hollywood Revue of 1929 and the fragmentary film The March of Time . Due to the completely separate framework, it is expressly not a typical version film for the time .

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Paul Morgan comes to Hollywood as the inventor of the first acousto-optical, wireless pocket transmitter in order to broadcast a report from here to Europe. Since he doesn't speak a word of English, he is happy to make the acquaintance of Grand Duke Karl Peter Friedrich zu Weidlingau-Hadersbach, who is an extra at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. He becomes its constant companion. Both of them interview different celebrities and overhear some greats at work in Culver City. Morgan plays a sketch with Nora Gregor and Adolphe Menjou , romps around the production company's outdoor area, has an encounter with strange Indians as a Wildwestern and meets Oscar Straus . He witnessed a film premiere, and if there was a mess on the gala evening, Buster Keaton made the wireless transmitter unusable. The transfer has ended.

Remarks

The film uses passages from The Hollywood Revue of 1929 and the unfinished musical The March of Time from 1930, including a performance by the Albertina Rasch Ballet. Some of the sequences used were shot using the two-color Technicolor method. Joan Crawford speaks a few sentences in German at the end of the plot. The German premiere was on June 10, 1931 in the Capitol-Kino in Berlin , the Austrian on July 27, 1931 in the Apollo-Kino in Vienna.

Some scenes were cut out of the distribution version by order of the Film-Oberprüfstelle Berlin on May 19, 1931, because the experts called in by the inspection office thought they were likely to offend the religious feelings of the audience.

Reviews

“An American production for the German market, shot in the MGM studios in Culver City and on their outdoor area. A star parade with some technicolor colored parts and a few additional scenes from THE HOLLYWOOD REVUE OF 1929. The Viennese cabaret artist Paul Morgan (murdered by the Nazis in 1938) in the form of a reporter working for an imaginary radio station leads through the film. A casual stroll through Hollywood through the eyes of a European. The fascination for the new medium of sound film becomes noticeable when suddenly even Joan Crawford and Buster Keaton try their hand at the German language ... ""

"Enviable who still have the Lachorkan ahead of them."

“Heinrich George appears as a walking monument to anti- prohibition . Oscar Straus documents in an ear-catching manner that his most charming creation is the waltz dream. And Morgan finally gets to hear from Joan Crawford that he is 'a beautiful German man'. All of this is done very charmingly. With a lovable impartiality that mixes company advertising, sketch-looseness, and the immortal magic of the look behind the scenes. Bright colors and a running girl band - a splendid parody that immediately triggers cheerfulness in the audience. "

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  1. ↑ from: Karlheinz Wendtland: Beloved Kintopp 1929-1945.
  2. ↑ Arnborn p. 119.
  3. ↑ Decision of the film inspection body in the original (PDF; 198 kB)
  4. ↑ Program International Silent Film Festival - 21st Bonn Summer Cinema 2005 ( Memento from October 21, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ Hans Feld, June 11, 1931, in: Program for November 6, 1998 on: When the pictures learned to sing. Crisis and Golden Age of Music Films, 1925-38 - 11th International Film History Congress, Hamburg, 5.-8. November 1998. [1]
  6. ↑ from: Filmkurier, June 11, 1931