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Modes of transportation
The above image shows a film can that was produced for the Paris based branch of the Vitagraph Company. It was used as packaging for The Poor Musician, a dramatic film that was scheduled for release in the USA on February 23, 1909.1 The subsequent release of the film in France was roughly three months…
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Letters to V. Avril
With the post Briefkasten. Kino. we got an overview of available trade journals for the German-Speaking audience in 1910. One of the listed journals is Internationale Film- und Kinematographen-Industrie. Illustrierte Fachzeitschrift für alle Gebiete der Projektionskunst und deren Schaustellungen. Since information regarding this trade journal is scarce I‘d like to use this post to showcase…
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Briefkasten. Kino.
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„Quovadis“ in Gefahr.
Ad for Quo Vadis? in Bad Oeynhausener Anzeiger und Tageblatt.1 On May 29, 1913, the Bad Oeynhausener Anzeiger und Tageblatt reported the following incident, that happened the day before.
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Tillykke med fødselsdagen
With the first issue of May 1913 the Erste Internationale Film Zeitung1 published a tribute to Ole Olsen who would turn 50 years old on May 5, 1913. It was mend to celebrate a well known and successful businessman who contributed his fair share to the success of the film industry in general and in…
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Telephongespräch Montag morgen 9 Uhr! Drring…
Anonymous ad in Herforder Kreisblatt, published on May 26, 1913.1
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Enforcing the monopoly
Ad by Martin Dentler.1
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With greetings from Tante Fritze and Onkel Ernst Günther
Tante Fritze Onkel Ernst, Günther Thanks to family Günther (written on the back of the postcard and marked with a small cross on the front; they are situated on the last window to the right in the middle of the photo) we can glimpse into the everyday life of Berlin after the turn of the…
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A touch of inspiration
While Random Finds: Change of heart already glanced at Continental-Kunstfilm-Gesellschaft (in this article abbreviated as CF) regarding their administrative tasks this short interlude will shed some light on a rather creative or not so creative mode of operation. CF produced well over 100 films of which the majority were made between 1912 and 1915.1 That…
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Change of heart
Continental-Kunstfilm-Gesellschaft was a Berlin based production company that emerged in spring of 1912.1 Originally founded as Schmidthässler-Film-Gesellschaft on October 23, 1911, by Max Rittberger and the actor Walter Schmidthässler the company was later converted to Continental-Kunstfilm-Gesellschaft (in this article abbreviated as CF).2