2.  Invented the Bioscope film projector › They unveiled it at the Wintergarten Music Hall in Berlin on November 11, 1895.

3.  In 1896 first used the Geneva Drive › Geneva drive: Allows the film to advance intermittenly one frame at a time.

4.  Artistic films started coming out in 1910 › Edger Allen Poe adaption of Der Student von Prag. (Co directed by Paul Wegener and Stellan Rye)  Prior to 1914 many films were imported. › This is because during the silent film era there were no language boundaries so may films were imported from Italy and Denmark.

5.  In the early 1900’s the most popular genre was mystery. › Fritz Lang known as the ‘Master of Darkness’ was the most renowned mystery movie writer. › He made two of the most famous movies in German Film History. (M and Metropolis)

6.  M: › Made in 1931 this movie is about a child killer whom police have been hunting for 8 months. The child killer is giving career criminals a bad name, so they take it upon themselves to join the manhunt and it becomes a race to catch him.

7.  Metropolis › Made in 1927 it was the most expensive movie of the time. (approx $4 million). This movie is about a futuristic city where the classes are clearly divided into working and upper class. The son of the cities creator falls in love with a working class woman.

8.  The outbreak of WWI led to a boycott of French films, which left a hole in the market.  In 1917 nationalization of the German film industry began › Founding the Universum Film AG (UFA). This is the longest standing film company in the world.

9.  Film budgets were tight due to WWI, so all attempts at movies with sound had to come to a stop.  Due to the grim mood of Germany post WWI, most movies focused on crime and horror. (Das Kabinett des Doktor Caligari)

10.  During the time of Nazi Germany 1,500 directors, producers, actors and other film professionals emigrated to other countries. › This is because all non-aryan film professionals and people who did not politically agree with the Nazi’s where excluded from Reichsfachschaft and thus left them unemployed.  The film industry was now in an arm of totalitarian state. › No film could be made that was not in accordance with the ruling regimine

11.  There were major anti-Semitic propaganda films being released. ( Jud Süß )  In 1945-1989 (the time of East and West Germany), German film began to pick up again. › This is because most of the countries film infrastructure was now in the Soviet occupation zone, enabling quicker production than in western sectors.

12.  The Socialist Unity Party of Germany ruled the German Democratic Republic (GDR) › Film making in GDR was always concentrated and oriented by political situations at any given time. Many film professionals left the GDR due to strict guidelines.

13.  In West Germany cinema attendance fell by a quarter.  There was a major cutback in production. › Leading to film companies going out of business and cinemas closing. There were 123 movies produced in 1955, which dropped to 65 in 1965. In 1966 cinema began to pick up again, when feminist cinema was created.

14.  New German Cinema is a result of artistic and economic stagnation of the German Cinema. › German Cinema began to show signs of stagnation in the ’80s  The New German Cinema began producing extremely popular movies right away.

15.  Wolfgang Petersen wrote and produced Das Boot (1981) › Das Boot holds the record for most Academy Award Nominations for a German film (six nominations)

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