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The two 9-1/8 x 12-1/8 inch books we offer here are called Vom Werden deutscher Filmkunst, Der Stumme Film -Teil 1 (The Origins of German Cinematics, the Silent Movie, Part 1) and Vom Werden deutscher Filmkunst, Der Tonfilm -Teil 2 (The Origins of German Cinematics, Talkies, Part 2) by film historian Dr Oskar Kalbus in cooperation with Verlag “Ross”.
This two-book set was published in 1935 by Cigaretten-Bilderdienst in Altona-Bahrenfeld, Germany. Cigaretten-Bilderdienst was a tobacco company which published blank books and sets of photos for those books which they marketed as a promotion for the cigarettes and tobacco they produced. Their best-known book was Volume 15 in their series of cigarette albums, devoted to the Adolf Hitler.
Each book contains 136 pages with about 200 pictures for a total of about 400 pictures. All the pictures are present, both books are complete and in exceptional condition.
Volume I starts out with an illustrated explanation of the start of movie techniques and German movie pioneers such as Ottomar Anschütz and Oskar Meßter. There are pictures of silent movie stars such as Asta Nielsen, Pola Negri, Henry Porten, etc.
Volume I starts out with an illustrated explanation of the start of movie techniques and German movie pioneers such as Ottomar Anschütz and Oskar Meßter. There are pictures of silent movie stars such as Asta Nielsen, Pola Negri, Henry Porten, etc.
The changes in movie making during and after World War I are described, the invasion of Scandinavian actors such as Gudrun Houlberg, Viggo Larsen, Valdemar Psilander and the rise of new German actors like Mia May, Hanny Weiße, Ludwig Trautmann, Ernst Hoffmann, Wanda Treumann, Bernd Aldor, Hella Moja, Emil Jannings, Erich Kaiser-Titz, Conrad Veith, Hans Albers, Erna Morena, Willy Fritsch, Albert Paulig, Lil Dagover, Paul Hartmann, Marlene Dietrich, Franz Lederer, Lilian Harvey, Harry Piel, Leni Riefenstahl, Jenny Jugo, Anny Ondra, Brigitte Helmand many others.
Adventure films, movie epics, historical and costume dramas, religious films, comedies, musicals, romantic and nature movies are covered as well as new movie studios, film sets and lighting techniques, trick photography,
director Fritz Lang, screen writerThea von Harbou and much more. This book also contains 2 full-page, full-color pages with a film scene from Große Pause and Nibelungenfilm.
Volume 2 starts with the introduction of sound to movies, in America and in Germany, and the new Ufa sound stage at Neubabelsberg outside Berlin. One of the first movies with sound mentioned in this book is the Der blaue Engel (Blue Angel) with Marlene Dietrich and Emil Jannings followed by operettas, musicals and love stories with Willy Fritsch, Lilian Harvey, Oskar Karlweis, Käthe von Nagy, Leo Slezak, Marianne Hoppe, Gustav Diessl, Weiß-Ferdl, Jan Kiepura, Viktor de Kowa, Willi Forst, Liane Haid, Albin Skoda, Gustav Fröhlich, as well as Leni Riefenstahl and Sepp Rist in Stürme über den Montblanc.
There is short biographical information on many famous actors such as Carl Froehlich, Karl Hartl, Geza von Bolvary, Ludwig Berger, Gerhard Lamprecht, Harry Piel, Leni Riefenstahl, Willi Forst, Paul Wegener, and others.
Movies about World War I are described and shown in pictures of Rudolf Forster, Adele Sandrock, Luis Trenker, Ludwig Schmid-Wildy, Hans Albers und Käthe von Nagy, as well as adventure movies, dramas, and movies in foreign languages with Charles Boyer, Al Jolson, Gary Cooper, etc. This book also contains 2 full-page, full-color pages with a film scene from Der junge Baron Neuhaus and Maskerade featuring the beautiful Paula Wessely.
In Volume II a section deals with National Socialist or Nazi movies, Adolf Hitler, Joseph Goebbels, the Nazi ‘Oscar’ (Film-Wanderpreis der Reichsregierung) and films such as SA-Mann Brandt (Manfred Kömpel-Pilot and Heinz Klingenberg), Hans Westmar (Emil Lohkamp), and Hiterjunge Quex. This section contains pictures of beautiful German movie stars Hansi Knoteck, Carola Höhn, Lola Chlud, Inge List, Hilde Weißner and Dorit Kreysler.
This is easily the best and most objective set of books on the subject including all those published after the end of World War II. Great historical data, great biographies, and wonderful images from what is perhaps the best period in German film in general.
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NAZI MOVIE BOOKS - TWO-VOLUME SET
BOTH VOLUMES OF THE SPLENDID HISTORY OF GERMAN MOVIES
VOM WERDEN
DEUTSCHER FILMKUNST
(THE ORIGINS OF
GERMAN CINEMA) 1935
VOM WERDEN
DEUTSCHER FILMKUNST
(THE ORIGINS OF
GERMAN CINEMA) 1935
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