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THE EUROPEAN CINEMA
primitive Swedes, a beautiful piece of imaginative anthropology. There are also some documentary makers growing up in Sweden, among whom the most important and talented is Arne Sucksdorff. His two short films, Sunshine Over Snow and Rhythm of a City, were very lovely little compositions, full of poetry and human touches, international in their use of practically no speech but with excellent music. SucksdorfFs work is to be watched.
The main contribution of the Danes in recent years has also taken place in the documentary field where they have built up a considerable reputation for themselves. In view of the language problem, and the constant competition of Hollywood imported pictures, it is remarkable that this little country with only four million inhabitants still contrives to produce about ten feature films a year.1 Denmark, we should recall, was making ambitious storyfilms as far back as 1906, and the famous studio of Nordisk just outside Copenhagen has many films to its credit in a long history. After the extinction of his Hollywood career, the Hungarian Paul Fejos found sponsorship in Denmark and the result was a series of anthropological studies, of which two, The Bilo (1937) and Dance Contest in Esira (1937) were the most notable. The work of George Schneevoigt, sometimes overlooked in the praise of Carl Dreyer and Sandberg, is also important. Apart from two early sound films, Praestev : Vejlby and Hotel Paradis, his films of Lapland and Finland, Laila and Fredlos, are said to be remarkable for their fine observation and for their use of natural sound on location. Apparently, he has not produced in recent years.
The work of Carl Th. Dreyer is probably the best known overseas of Danish directors, and then only to a limited audience, but his films are not in any way representative of Danish cinema, as were the films of Sandberg. His early work, such as Leaves from Satan's Book (1921) and
1 Vide, Motion Pictures in Denmark, Ebbe Neergaard (Central Film Library, Danish Government, 1948) and Documentary in Denmark, by the same author and publisher, 1948.
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