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    Oskar Messter (21 November 1866 – 6 December 1943) was a German inventor and film tycoon in the early years of cinema. His firm Messter Film was one of...
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  • German inventor and film tycoon Oskar Messter was an important figure in the early years of cinema. His firm Messter Film was one of the dominant German...
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  • Messter Film was a German film production company which operated during the silent era. It was founded by the German film pioneer Oskar Messter who already...
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    p. 23. Robertson (2001) claims that German inventor and filmmaker Oskar Messter began projecting sound motion pictures at 21 Unter den Linden in September...
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    Geneva drive in film projectors date to 1896, with the projectors of Oskar Messter and Max Gliewe and the Teatrograph of Robert William Paul. Previous...
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    sound film, very short, that her father, Franz Porten, directed for Oskar Messter. In 1907, after finishing her studies at the De Múgica College for Elderly...
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  • Geneva drive, duplicating an invention made a year earlier in Germany by Oskar Messter and Max Griewe and in England by Robert William Paul. In 1947, Armat...
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    Kraus, Johannes Steurer and Wolfgang Riedel. Steurer was awarded the Oskar Messter Memorial Medal two years later in 2014 for his role in the development...
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    superior to his Bioscop. Other German film pioneers included the Berliners Oskar Messter and Max Gliewe, two of several individuals who independently in 1896...
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  • Mono 137936 1925 Movietone 20 1938 Optiphone 5 1964 Ortiphone 1 1907 Oskar Messter 1 1949 Perspecta Stereo 58 1933 Phillips Sound 3 1900 Phono-Bio-Taleaux...
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  • much from overproduction and too much competition. German film tycoon Oskar Messter had initially gained much financial success with the Tonbild synchronized...
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  • Produced by Oskar Messter Starring Henny Porten Paul Bildt Curt Goetz Cinematography Karl Freund Music by Giuseppe Becce Production company Messter Film Release...
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    different ways of filming and new aspects of film. In 1914 he worked with Oskar Messter, a pioneering inventor and experimenter with sound film technology....
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  • 60 minutes The Haunted Cafe (German film/ Messter) aka The Bewitched Restaurant, produced by Oskar Messter, starring Henny Porten, featured trick photography...
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  • companies formed the nucleus of UFA from the end of 1917: Messter Film, owned by Oskar Messter, a dominant German producer PAGU (Projektions Union), originally...
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    Blaue Reiter, lived and painted a year in Tegernsee, from 1909 to 1910 Oskar Messter (1866–1943), film pioneer, buried in the Tegernsee cemetery Joseph Karl...
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  • Robert Wiene Produced by Oskar Messter Starring Max Zilzer Bogia Horska Otto Treptow Manny Ziener Production company Messter Film Distributed by Hansa...
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  • silent to sound movies and for sound recognition. Oskar-Messter-Medal (in German: de:Oskar-Messter-Medaille) 1961 of the “Deutsche Kinotechnischen Gesellschaft“...
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    before the First World War after having been discovered in Berlin by Oskar Messter. She enjoyed particular fame during the early 1920s, but drifted out...
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  • In the 1920s he set up a production company with the film pioneer Oskar Messter. He was later employed at the Munich-based Bavaria Film which had been...
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    Produced by Oskar Messter Starring Bruno Decarli Conrad Veidt Bernhard Goetzke Mechthildis Thein Hermann Picha Production company Messter Film Release...
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  • Jewish background, Galitzenstein was associated with the film pioneer Oskar Messter before the First World War. Along with Paul Ebner he controlled Maxim-Film...
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    was born and died in Berlin. From 1903 Froelich was a colleague of Oskar Messter, one of the advance guard of German cinema, for whom initially he worked...
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  • by Oskar Messter Starring Henny Porten Bruno Decarli Arthur Bergen Cinematography Karl Freund Music by Giuseppe Becce Production company Messter Film...
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  • Produced by Oskar Messter Starring Henny Porten Paul Bildt Hermann Picha Cinematography Karl Freund Music by Giuseppe Becce Production company Messter Film Release...
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  • Dengg, Ferdinand Feldigl, Ernst Lochmann, Winnie Markus and Adi Vogel, Oskar Messter and Hans Schabel-Dengg Traunreut, Burial site of Brigitte Koesters and...
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  • Apachentanz Oskar Messter, Albert Kutzner Henny Porten, Rosa Porten English: Apache Dance (A French dance) Meißner Porzellan Franz Porten, Oskar Messter Henny...
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  • Kolowrat Oskar Messter Arnold Pressburger Starring Fritz Kortner Marion Illing Anton Pointner Music by Björn Maseng Production company Sascha-Messter-Film...
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  • (novel) Produced by Oskar Messter Starring Viggo Larsen Franz Verdier Käthe Haack Music by Giuseppe Becce Production company Messter Film Distributed by...
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  • companies who made up the Tobis syndicate were: Messter-Ton Film, founded in Berlin by Oskar Messter, the founder of the German film industry who had...
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