Archival Spaces 408: Summfilmtage Bonn 2026 Uploaded 18 September 2026 The Bonn Silent Film Festival’s online streaming program continued after its opening film, The Saga of Gosta Berling (See Archival Spaces 407) with Kid Boots (1926, Frank Tuttle), starring Eddie Cantor and Clara Bow. The film was digitally restored in 2021 from a 1926 workContinue reading “408: Bonn Silent Film Festival II”
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366: German Musicals 3
Archival Spaces 366: Marta Eggerth’s First Film Uploaded 7 February 2025 The independent film producer/director Richard Eichberg produced his films up to early 1928 at UFA’s Babelsberg Studios, then moved his base of operation to London’s Elstree Studios and British International Pictures, although he also continued to produce films in Berlin. In 1930, Eichberg hiredContinue reading “366: German Musicals 3”
355: Charles Puffy
Archival Spaces 355 Puffy’s Tragic End Uploaded 6 September 2024 Whenever they needed a fat man, Károly Huszár at 290 lbs. was there. Starting his film career with Michael Curtiz in Hungary in 1913, the comedian moved to Germany in 1920, before becoming a star of short comedies for Universal in 1924, as well asContinue reading “355: Charles Puffy”
344: Anti-Semitic Film History
Archival Spaces 344 Nazi Film History: Film “Kunst” Film Kohn Film Korruption Uploaded 5 April 1924 Like most of my fellow film historians, I had never actually read the 1937 Nazi tract disguised as film history, Carl Neumann, Curt Belling, and Hans-Walther Betz’s Film-“Kunst”, Film Kohn, Film-Korruption. Ein Streifzug durch vier Film-Jahrzehnte, although I hadContinue reading “344: Anti-Semitic Film History”
