First crisis and its consequences for the cinema
1907-08 first time there is a crisis in the film business. Visitor numbers fell, as lost, and often not very imaginative short productions of its appeal. For the first time we came to grips with film theory and film language. In France, they reacted with the focus on contemporary literary sources. The productions were now longer and more complex treatment histories. This French innovation was called "Film d'Art" and was imitated in many countries around the world. In German-speaking one was based on German literature - especially popular plays. Formally, it was geared to the theater, so that the specific strengths of the medium of film did not come into play. Artistically it was a dead end, but he managed to expand by an obligation-known authors viewers circles. The Viennese art film industry provided the reference to such films already provided their company name. Amateur actors and friends of the silent movie from then on were replaced by professional actors, who often came from the theater and is procured as a film actor of an additional income. From the film acting alone at first, hardly anyone could fund a life. Among the first to this, however, were able to count the Danish actress Asta Nielsen who won the time with the Danish international reputation and became widely used films for probably the first female movie star. By 1914, major theater of the German-speaking countries banned their actors to participate in movies because the movies represented a competitor for the theater.
In Denmark and other Scandinavian countries and the origin of the film, France, the film was at that time already a recognized art form. In German-speaking world this was different. The educated middle class was hostile to the cinema. On the one introduced the new medium of traditional art ideas (idealism) in question, on the other hand, it was tailored to the needs of the proletariat and subproletariat. Early cinema was a lower-class fun with latent anarcho-subversive features. Because the films break openly with the ethical and moral conventions showed the critics feared an "over-the soul," the proletariat, which could lead to rebellion against the state and authorities. This argument continues long lived in the German Cinema and the reform movement was after the Second World War by the Media Education changed slightly in the chair.
Only in the mid-twenties, more people gave up their objections to the cinema, now were mainly employed in the cinema-goers found. The government censors also frequently led the excision of socially or "disreputable" scenes. The German film received its decisive impetus in its early stage of comedy touring companies, the cabaret, the boulevard and farce is. Here we know how to develop and produce pieces of tension. The first film comedies were influenced by farce and operetta. For the first German film seo star was Henny Porten. In Austria, it was Liane Haid.
In the following years, the filmmakers gradually explored the possibilities of film. Scenery and decorations were elaborate, complex actions, and also the technical demands, especially regarding the increased lighting. The filmmaking was more expensive and sophisticated technical equipment could only afford the least. Private filmmakers have thus had fewer opportunities in the film market, the director is no longer the sole responsibility of the films.
1907-08 first time there is a crisis in the film business. Visitor numbers fell, as lost, and often not very imaginative short productions of its appeal. For the first time we came to grips with film theory and film language. In France, they reacted with the focus on contemporary literary sources. The productions were now longer and more complex treatment histories. This French innovation was called "Film d'Art" and was imitated in many countries around the world. In German-speaking one was based on German literature - especially popular plays. Formally, it was geared to the theater, so that the specific strengths of the medium of film did not come into play. Artistically it was a dead end, but he managed to expand by an obligation-known authors viewers circles. The Viennese art film industry provided the reference to such films already provided their company name. Amateur actors and friends of the silent movie from then on were replaced by professional actors, who often came from the theater and is procured as a film actor of an additional income. From the film acting alone at first, hardly anyone could fund a life. Among the first to this, however, were able to count the Danish actress Asta Nielsen who won the time with the Danish international reputation and became widely used films for probably the first female movie star. By 1914, major theater of the German-speaking countries banned their actors to participate in movies because the movies represented a competitor for the theater.
In Denmark and other Scandinavian countries and the origin of the film, France, the film was at that time already a recognized art form. In German-speaking world this was different. The educated middle class was hostile to the cinema. On the one introduced the new medium of traditional art ideas (idealism) in question, on the other hand, it was tailored to the needs of the proletariat and subproletariat. Early cinema was a lower-class fun with latent anarcho-subversive features. Because the films break openly with the ethical and moral conventions showed the critics feared an "over-the soul," the proletariat, which could lead to rebellion against the state and authorities. This argument continues long lived in the German Cinema and the reform movement was after the Second World War by the Media Education changed slightly in the chair.
Only in the mid-twenties, more people gave up their objections to the cinema, now were mainly employed in the cinema-goers found. The government censors also frequently led the excision of socially or "disreputable" scenes. The German film received its decisive impetus in its early stage of comedy touring companies, the cabaret, the boulevard and farce is. Here we know how to develop and produce pieces of tension. The first film comedies were influenced by farce and operetta. For the first German film seo star was Henny Porten. In Austria, it was Liane Haid.
In the following years, the filmmakers gradually explored the possibilities of film. Scenery and decorations were elaborate, complex actions, and also the technical demands, especially regarding the increased lighting. The filmmaking was more expensive and sophisticated technical equipment could only afford the least. Private filmmakers have thus had fewer opportunities in the film market, the director is no longer the sole responsibility of the films.