Universal Filmlexikon (1933)

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in Germany it coincided with the aftermath of defeat in the great war, with loss of territory, inflation and depression. With the advent of the talking fihn the chances of German fihn production seenied to become worse still. The American talkie, which started with far better chance than the German, had, and still has for its market the entire English speaking world, including the U. S. A., Canada, Great Britain, Australia, South Africa, etc. The German talkie seemed to be confined to Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Yet a miracle has happened and the German talkie has not only almost completely outclassed the American talkie on the European Continent, but has developed into a far more dangerous competitor of the American talkie all over the world than at any time during the silent era. That is why Gennan film production has been able to maintain itself and continue its develop ment in spite of the heavy natural and economic handicaps represented by the smallness and the depressed «täte of its place of origin. I do not propose to enlarge here on the enormous cultural and general economic significance which the fact of the exportabilitv of German speaking talkies has for Germany. From the viewpoint of purely film economics the present World supremacy of the German film presents a basis for further development. To-dav it is a question of extending still further the internationalism of the German film. A large number of films are already being produced with French collaboration, and the French and German versions naturally have a wider market than the German version alone. German producei's now ought to make it their business to pioduce English versions as well, thus creating a comprehensive export market for the German film. CHR. MÜLLENEISEN LE FILM ALLEMAND Ä LETRANGER Le fondement solide sur lequel les pays basent leur production de films est leur propre patrie. Si on compare, ä ce point de vue, les deux principaux pays producteurs de films pour Fexportation : FAmerique et FAllemagne, on s'aperqoit sans peine ä quel point les U. S. A. sont favorises. L'Amerique d'une part, avec ses 123 millions d'habitants et de Fautre la petite Allemagne. Le developpement de Findustrie cinematographique concordait en Amerique avec une ere de prosperite, tandis qu'en Allemagne c etait le temps de la guerre perdue, de Finflation et de depression economique et aussi quelques territoires separes de la mere patrie. Les possibilites de developpement de la production du film en Allemagne paraissaient devoir decroitre avec Favenement du film sonore et parlant. En plus des avantages que lui procure son enorme population, une grande partie du globe comprenant les pays de langue anglaise: U. S. A., La Grande Bretagne, Canada, Australie, Afrique du Sud etc., est ouvert au film sonore americain. Le film allemand semblait, lui, limite ä FAllemagne, FAutriche et la Suisse. Or, il se produit ce miracle que, non seulement, le film allemand a pris le pas sur le film americain dans FEurope Continentale. mais il se presente comme concurrent redoutable dans le monde entier, et ceci dans une mesure plus grande qu au temps du film muet. Gräce ä cela il a ete rendu possible ä la production du film en Allemagne de tenir et de se developper malgre le handicap d une Situation economique critique. Nous ne voulons pas parier ici de Fenorme importance culturelle et economique, en general, qui derive du fait de capacite d'exportation du film parlant allemand. Au point de vue de production du film, la Situation est teile, que le film allemand peut continuer a se developper gräce ä eette base de valeur mondiale. Aujourd'hui il est d"un interet primordial de developper Finternationalisme du film allemand. Toute une serie de films produits en accord avec la France, en deux versions, allemande et francaise, permet une diffusion encore beaucoup plus grande que la seule version de langue allemande. La production allemande devrait egalement produire ses films en anglais. pour permettre une exportation mondiale aux films allemands. XX