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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History of film (section Germany: Oskar Messter)
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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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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Henny Porten (section "Messter's girl")
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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In 1911 he settled in Berlin, and started to work various jobs in Oskar Messter's productions from 1912: an extra, set designer, make-up artist, assistant...
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by Oskar Messter Starring Henny Porten Emil Jannings Ludwig Trautmann Cinematography Karl Freund Music by Giuseppe Becce Production company Messter Film...
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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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Walter Turszinsky Produced by Oskar Messter Starring Margarete Kupfer Senta Söneland Bogia Horska Production company Messter Film Distributed by Hansa Film...
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Turszinsky Produced by Oskar Messter Starring Henny Porten Emmy Wyda Lupu Pick Music by Giuseppe Becce Production company Messter Film Distributed by Hansa...
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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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