Archival Spaces 397: Eternal Mask’s Art Director Uploaded 17 April 2026 I have been catching up on the films of Werner Hochbaum on YouTube, a filmmaker best known for his leftist feature, Brothers (1929), about a dock strike in Hamburg. Politically in danger after 1933, Hochbaum moved to Austria, where he directed several films, includingContinue reading “397: German Film Exile in Argentina”
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364: Mr. Moto
Archival Spaces 364 Peter Lorre’s Mr. Moto Detective Series Uploaded 10 January 2025 When Adolf Hitler ascended to power on 30 January 1933, Peter Lorre knew he would be at the top of Joseph Goebbels’ enemies list, having been the star of Fritz Lang’s M (1931), a film that called for sympathy for a mentallyContinue reading “364: Mr. Moto”
341: Most Expensive Industrial Film Ever
Archival Spaces 341 Most Expensive Industrial Film Ever Uploaded 23 February 2024 In 1948, the Apex Film Co., a company founded by former MGM executive Jack Chertok to produce educational, industrial, and other sponsored films, was hired by E.I. Du Pont de Nemours to produce a feature-length color industrial on the history of the DuPontContinue reading “341: Most Expensive Industrial Film Ever”
336: Danger… Music!
Archival Spaces 336 Danger Music… Between Film Comedy and Musical Uploaded 8 December 2023 Over Thanksgiving weekend the Hamburg Cinegraph group invited scholars to the 36th International Film Historical Congress, “Danger Music… Between Film Comedy and Music,” which accompanied the “20th International Festival of German Film Patrimony,” held in Hamburg’s storied Metropolis cinema between 17Continue reading “336: Danger… Music!”
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