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Looping The Loop
''Looping the Loop'' (German: ''Die Todesschleife'') is a 1928 German silent thriller film directed by Arthur Robison and starring Werner Krauss, Jenny Jugo and Warwick Ward.Bock & Bergfelder p.228 The film was produced by UFA. It was shot at the Babelsberg Studios in Berlin and on location in London. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Robert Herlth and Walter Röhrig. As with UFA's ''Variety'', Paramount Pictures handled the film's American distribution as part of the Parufamet agreement. Cast * Werner Krauss as Botto, ein berühmter Clown * Jenny Jugo as Blanche Valette * Warwick Ward as Andre Melton, Artist * Gina Manès as Hanna, Kunstschützin * Sig Arno as Sigi, Hannas Partner * Max Gülstorff as Blanches Verwandter * Lydia Potechina as Blanches Verwandte * Gyula Szőreghy Gyula Szőreghy (30 November 1887 – 22 December 1942) was a Hungarian film actor. Szőreghy was born in Algyo, Austria-Hungary (now, Hungary) and died in 1942 in Budapes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Robison
Arthur Robison (June 25, 1883 – October 20, 1935) was a German film director and screenwriter of the silent era. He directed 20 films between 1916 and 1935. Selected filmography * ''A Night of Horror'' (1916) * ''What Belongs to Darkness'' (1922) * '' Between Evening and Morning'' (1923) * ''Schatten – Eine nächtliche Halluzination'' (1923) * '' Peter the Pirate'' (1925) * ''Manon Lescaut'' (1926) * ''The Last Waltz'' (1927) * ''Looping the Loop'' (1928) * '' The Informer'' (1929) * '' Count Woronzeff'' (1934) * ''Make Me Happy ''Make Me Happy'' (german: Mach' mich glücklich) is a 1935 German musical comedy film directed by Arthur Robison and starring Julia Serda, Albert Lieven and Richard Romanowsky.Kreimeier p. 234 It was made by Germany's largest film company UFA. A ...'' (1935) * '' The Student of Prague'' (1935) References External links * 1883 births 1935 deaths German film people Writers from Chicago American male screenwriters Screenwriters from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Silent Film
A silent film is a film with no synchronized recorded sound (or more generally, no audible dialogue). Though silent films convey narrative and emotion visually, various plot elements (such as a setting or era) or key lines of dialogue may, when necessary, be conveyed by the use of title cards. The term "silent film" is something of a misnomer, as these films were almost always accompanied by live sounds. During the silent era that existed from the mid-1890s to the late 1920s, a pianist, theater organist—or even, in large cities, a small orchestra—would often play music to accompany the films. Pianists and organists would play either from sheet music, or improvisation. Sometimes a person would even narrate the inter-title cards for the audience. Though at the time the technology to synchronize sound with the film did not exist, music was seen as an essential part of the viewing experience. "Silent film" is typically used as a historical term to describe an era of cinema pri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gyula Szőreghy
Gyula Szőreghy (30 November 1887 – 22 December 1942) was a Hungarian film actor. Szőreghy was born in Algyo, Austria-Hungary (now, Hungary) and died in 1942 in Budapest. He was also credited as Julius von Szöreghy. Selected filmography * '' Mary Ann'' (1918) * ''White Rose'' (1919) * ''Oliver Twist'' (1919) * '' Serge Panine'' (1922) * ''Sodom and Gomorrah'' (1922) * '' Masters of the Sea'' (1922) * ''A Vanished World'' (1922) * '' Gypsy Love'' (1922) * '' Young Medardus'' (1923) * ''Gulliver's Travels'' (1924) * ''The Alternative Bride'' (1925) * '' Ship in Distress'' (1925) * ''Women You Rarely Greet'' (1925) * ''Cock of the Roost'' (1925) * ''The Wooing of Eve'' (1926) * ''Darling, Count the Cash'' (1926) * ''The Third Squadron'' (1926) * '' Maytime'' (1926) * ''Unmarried Daughters'' (1926) * ''German Hearts on the German Rhine'' (1926) * ''Two and a Lady'' (1926) * '' Her Highness Dances the Waltz'' (1926) * ''Dancing Vienna'' (1927) * ''The Most Beautiful Legs of Berl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lydia Potechina
Lydia Potechina (5 September 1883 – 30 April 1934) was a Russian actress. She emigrated to Germany in 1918. She was married to the Russian-German film producer Max Pfeiffer. Selected filmography *''Destiny'' (1921) * '' The Conspiracy in Genoa'' (1921) * ''Parisian Women'' (1921) * ''Circus of Life'' (1921) * ''Wandering Souls'' (1921) * ''Barmaid'' (1922) * '' Dr. Mabuse the Gambler'' (1922) * ''Insulted and Humiliated'' (1922) * ''The Green Manuela'' (1923) * ''Fräulein Raffke'' (1923) * ''Resurrection'' (1923) * ''Carousel'' (1923) * '' Comedy of the Heart'' (1924) * ''Darling of the King'' (1924) * ''Leap Into Life'' (1924) * '' The Great Unknown'' (1924) * '' Passion'' (1925) * '' The Found Bride'' (1925) * ''Women of Luxury'' (1925) * '' Oh Those Glorious Old Student Days'' (1925) * ''A Waltz Dream'' (1925) * '' The Telephone Operator'' (1925) * '' Athletes'' (1925) * '' Peter the Pirate'' (1925) * ''The Pride of the Company'' (1926) * '' The Schimeck Family'' (1926) * '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Max Gülstorff
Max Walter Gülstorff (23 March 1882 – 6 February 1947) was a German actor and stage director. Biography Gülstorff was born in Tilsit, East Prussia. He first appeared in 1900 at the Rudolstadt municipal Theater and moved to Cottbus in 1908. In 1911 Gülstorff went to the ''Schillertheater'' Berlin and became a member of the ensemble of Max Reinhardt's Deutsches Theater in 1915. He also acted at the Großes Schauspielhaus and the Volksbühne Berlin. In 1923 Gülstorff moved to Vienna, where he worked as a stage director at the Theater in der Josefstadt The Theater in der Josefstadt is a theater in Vienna in the eighth district of Josefstadt. It was founded in 1788 and is the oldest still performing theater in Vienna. It is often referred to colloquially as simply ''Die Josefstadt''. Following .... Gülstorff died in Berlin and was buried at the Lichtenrade cemetery. Filmography External links * Biography with picture (German) [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sig Arno
Sig Arno (born Siegfried Aron, 27 December 1895 – 17 August 1975) was a German-Jewish film actor who appeared in such films as ''Pardon My Sarong'' and ''The Mummy's Hand''. He may be best remembered from ''The Palm Beach Story'' (1942) as Toto, the nonsense-talking, mustachioed man who hopelessly pursues Mary Astor's Princess Centimillia. Biography Arno was born in Hamburg, Germany. Before beginning to make films in 1920, he was well-known in Germany as a stage comedian.Erickson, HaBiography (Allmovie) He acted in 90 films in Germany – including G.W. Pabst's ''Pandora's Box'' with Louise Brooks – playing primarily comic roles, then he left Germany in 1933 due to the rise of Adolf Hitler. He worked in Europe until 1939 when he moved to Hollywood. During the next 20 years. he appeared in over 50 films, often playing waiters, maitre d's and "funny Europeans". Arno appeared three times on Broadway, notably in the musical ''Song of Norway'' and the play ''Time Remembere ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Variety (1925 Film)
''Variety'' (german: Varieté , also known by the alternative titles ''Jealousy'' or ''Vaudeville'') is a 1925 German silent drama film directed by Ewald Andre Dupont based on the 1912 novel '' The Oath of Stephan Huller'' by Felix Hollaender. The trapeze scenes are set in the Berlin Wintergarten theatre. The camera swings from long shot to close-up, like the acrobats. The story was loosely remade by Dupont as the 1931 German sound film '' Salto Mortale''. Plot In the film, Jannings portrays "Boss Huller", a former trapeze artist who was badly injured in a fall from the high wire and who now runs a seedy carnival with his wife (Maly Delschaft) and their child. Huller insists that the family take in a beautiful stranger ( Lya De Putti) as a new sideshow dancer, with whom he develops a new trapeze number. He falls in love with the new star, and the story ends in tragedy. Cast * Emil Jannings as Boss Huller * Maly Delschaft as wife of Boss * Lya De Putti as Bertha * Warwick ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walter Röhrig
Walter Röhrig (13 April 1897 – 1945) was a German art director.Stephens p.163 Selected filmography * '' The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari'' (1920) * ''Masks'' (1920) * ''Parisian Women'' (1921) * '' Island of the Dead'' (1921) * ''Miss Julie'' (1922) * ''Kaddish'' (1924) * ''Luther'' (1928) * ''The Flute Concert of Sanssouci'' (1930) * '' Hocuspocus'' (1930) * '' The Immortal Vagabond'' (1930) * ''Calais-Dover'' (1931) * ''In the Employ of the Secret Service'' (1931) * '' The Countess of Monte Cristo'' (1932) * ''Congress Dances'' (1932) * ''Waltz War'' (1933) * ''Refugees'' (1933) * ''Court Waltzes'' (1933) * ''The Empress and I'' (1933) * ''Season in Cairo'' (1933) * ''Night in May'' (1934) * ''The Young Baron Neuhaus'' (1934) * '' The Csardas Princess'' (1934) * '' The Royal Waltz'' (1935) * ''Savoy Hotel 217'' (1936) * ''Under Blazing Heavens'' (1936) * ''Diamonds'' (1937) * ''My Son the Minister'' (1937) * ''Rembrandt'' (1942) * ''A Salzburg Comedy ''A Salzburg Comedy'' or '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Herlth
Robert Herlth (2 May 1893 – 6 January 1962) was a German art director. He was one of the leading designers of German film sets during the 1920s and 1930s.Reimer & Reimer p.146 Filmography * ''Masks'' (1920) * '' Island of the Dead'' (1921) * '' The Secret of Bombay'' (1921) * ''The Devil's Chains'' (1921) * ''Destiny'' (1921) * '' Playing with Fire'' (1921) * ''Wandering Souls'' (1921) * ''Parisian Women'' (1921) * ''Miss Julie'' (1922) * ''Madame de La Pommeraye's Intrigues'' (1922) * '' Luise Millerin'' (1922) * '' The Earl of Essex'' (1922) * '' The Treasure'' (1923) * '' Comedy of the Heart'' (1924) * '' The Last Laugh'' (1924) * '' The Chronicles of the Gray House'' (1925) * ''Tartuffe'' (1926) * ''Faust'' (1926) * ''Luther'' (1928) * ''Looping the Loop'' (1928) * ''Whirl of Youth'' (1928) * '' Four Devils'' (1928) * ''Asphalt'' (1929) * ''The Wonderful Lies of Nina Petrovna'' (1929) * '' Manolescu'' (1929) * ''The Flute Concert of Sanssouci'' (1930) * ''The Temporary Widow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Art Director
Art director is the title for a variety of similar job functions in theater, advertising, marketing, publishing, fashion, film industry, film and television, the Internet, and video games. It is the charge of a sole art director to supervise and unify the vision of an artistic production. In particular, they are in charge of its overall visual appearance and how it visual communication, communicates visually, stimulates moods, contrasts features, and psychologically appeals to a target audience. The art director makes decisions about visual elements, what artistic style (visual arts), style(s) to use, and when to use motion graphic design, motion. One of the biggest challenges art directors face is translating desired moods, messages, concepts, and underdeveloped ideas into imagery. In the brainstorming process, art directors, colleagues and clients explore ways the finished piece or scene could look. At times, the art director is responsible for solidifying the vision of the col ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
London
London is the capital and largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of just under 9 million. It stands on the River Thames in south-east England at the head of a estuary down to the North Sea, and has been a major settlement for two millennia. The City of London, its ancient core and financial centre, was founded by the Romans as '' Londinium'' and retains its medieval boundaries.See also: Independent city § National capitals The City of Westminster, to the west of the City of London, has for centuries hosted the national government and parliament. Since the 19th century, the name "London" has also referred to the metropolis around this core, historically split between the counties of Middlesex, Essex, Surrey, Kent, and Hertfordshire, which largely comprises Greater London, governed by the Greater London Authority.The Greater London Authority consists of the Mayor of London and the London Assembly. The London Mayor is distinguished fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Location Shooting
Location shooting is the shooting of a film or television production in a real-world setting rather than a sound stage or backlot. The location may be interior or exterior. The filming location may be the same in which the story is set (for example, scenes in the film ''The Interpreter'' were set and shot inside the United Nations Headquarters in Manhattan), or it may stand in for a different locale (the films ''Amadeus'' and '' The Illusionist'' were primarily set in Vienna, but were filmed in Prague). Most films feature a combination of location and studio shoots; often, interior scenes will be shot on a soundstage while exterior scenes will be shot on location. Second unit photography is not generally considered a location shoot. Before filming, the locations are generally surveyed in pre-production, a process known as location scouting and recce. Pros and cons Location shooting has several advantages over filming on a studio set. First and foremost, the expense can often ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
