Scandinavian film (1952)

Record Details:

Title:
Scandinavian film
Date:
1952
Publisher:
London : The Falcon Press
Volume:
Scandinavian film
Leaf #:
00036
Language:
English
Collection:
Books
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Date Added:
August 08, 2024
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to leave the studio. Their concentration on comedies and farces, drawn from stage examples, had blinded them to the virtue to be drawn from the Swedish landscape. A reminder came in an unusual film of significance because of both its theme and its director. In 1938 Svensk Filmindustri financed an expedition to the Antarctic to make a film about whale-hunting. It was led by Tancred Ibsen and based on a Norwegian script written jointly by Ibsen and Axel Kielland. Julius Jaenzon headed the camera unit which included a promising youngster, Gunnar Fischer, and they secured some striking shots of the whale hunt, the death struggles of the huge creatures, and their dissection on board the whalers. The location shooting of the acted sequences of the film was less satisfactory and on the return of the expedition, Anders Henrikson was commissioned to complete it. Valfdngare (Whale-hunters) had a considerable influence on the trend of Swedish production. It also encouraged Henrikson, whose feeling for unusual subjects was to be an important factor during the revival. 22