1919 - 1926

These pages gather films that can be paired with selected chapters and texts from the book. The material is intended to help bring the readings to life. Users looking for better-quality copies of the films below can consult the following lists of German films on DVD:

1919 — Anders als die Andern / Different from the Others

Richard Ostwald (51 min. English subtitles)

See chapter 7, “Moral Panic and Reform”

1919 — Bull Arizona – der Wüstenadler/Bull Arizona – The Desert Eagle

Horst Krahe/Piel Jutzi (6 min. – a German Western)

See chapter 7, Moral Panic and Reform

Mierendorff, If I Only Had the Cinema, text no. 193

1919 — Unheimliche Geschichten / Eerie Tales

Richard Ostwald (97 mi., German only)

See chapter 13, “The Expressionist Turn”

1920 — Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari / The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari

Robert Wiene (77 min. English subtitles)

See chapter 13, “The Expressionist Turn”

1920 — John Hagenbecks lustige Jagden und Abenteuer Nr 3, Die Elfantenjagd / John Hagenbeck’s Funny Hunts and Adventures, No. 3, The Elephant Hunt

Kurt Wiese (8 min.)

See chapter 2, The World in Motion

Schomburgk, Africa and Film, text no. 21

1920 — Der Feuerteufel / The Fire Devil

Piel Jutzi (6 Min.)

See chapter 7, Moral Panic and Reform

1921 — The Kid

Charlie Chaplin (53 min.)

See chapter 12, Chiffres of Modernity

Weill, Possibilities for Absolute Radio Art, text no. 268

Lang, Kitsch-Sensation-Culture and Film, text no. 90

Clair Goll, American Cinema, text no. 126

1921 — Scherben / Shattered

Lupu Pick (61 min. English subtitles)

See chapter 13, “The Expressionist Turn”

Pick, “Individual and Montage,” text no. 170

Pander, “Intertitles,” text. No. 221

1922 — Aschenputtel / Cinderella

Lotte Reiniger (13 min.)

See Reiniger, Living Shadows, text no. 1929

Schlesinger, Kulturfilm and Cinema, text no. 243

Diebold, The Future of Mickey Mouse, text no. 277

1922 — Das Geheimnis der Marquisin / The Secret of the Marquise

Lotte Reiniger and Julius Pinschewer (2 min.)

see chapter 14, Avant-Garde and Industry

chapter 16, Film as Knowledge and Persuasion

Reiniger, Living Shadows, text no. 211

Pinschewer, Advertising Film, text no. 237

Nikolaus, Advertising Film and Its Psychological Effects, text no. 246

1923 — Film ist Rhythmus / Rhythm 21

Hans Richter (3 min. in production 1921-23)

See chapter 14

Richter, Basic Principles of the Art of Movement, text no. 203

1923 — Die Strasse / The Street

Karl Grune (90 min., French subtitles, no audio)

Karl Grune (90 min., French subtitles, no audio)

1924 — Der letzte Mann / The Last Laugh

F.W. Murnau (90 min. in German)

See chapter see chapter 13, “The Expressionist Turn”; chapter 15, “The Aesthetics of Silent Film”

Murnau, “My Ideal Screenplay,” 1924, text no. 223

Pander, “Intertitles,” 1923, text. No. 221

1925 — Die Biene Maja / Maya the Bee

Wolfgang Junghans (9 min.), excerpt from the restored Kulturfilm

See Kracauer, The Weekly Newsreel, text no. 30

Eduard Bäumer, Cinematograph and Epistemology, text no. 33

Witlin, The Psychomechanics of the Spectator, text no. 57

Fritz Lang, The Art of Mimic Expression in Film, text no. 59

Breuer, The Film of Factuality, text no.199

Seeber, The Delirious Camera, text no. 226

Polimanti, The Cinematograph in Biological and Medical Science, text no. 234

Schlesinger, Kulturfilm and Cinema, text no. 243

1925 — Jeu des reflets et de la vitesse / Play of Reflections and Speed

Henri Chomette (8 min.)

See chapter 14, Avant-Garde and Industry

Kracauer, Abstract Film, text no. 209.

1925 — Panzerkreuzer Potemkin / Battleship Potemkin

Sergei Eisenstein; Music by Edmund Meisel (72 min. English subtitles)

See chapter 11, The Mobilization of the Masses

Olimsky, Film Bolshevism, text, no.107

Kracauer, The Klieg Lights Stay on, text no. 159

Schmitz, Potemkin and Tendentious Art, text no. 160

Benjamin, Reply, text no. 161

Toller, Who Will Create the German Revolutionary Film? Text no. 166

Breuer, The Film of Factuality, text no. 199

Balazs, Productive and Reproductive Film Art, text no. 227

1925 — Wege zu Kraft und Schönheit / Paths to Strength and Beauty

Nicholas Kaufmann and Wilhelm Prager

See chapter 16, Film as Knowledge and Persuasion

Osborn, “The Nude Body on Film,” text no. 53

Duenschmann, Cinema and Crowd Psychology, text no. 109

1925 — Das wiederentdeckte Paradies/The Rediscovered Paradise

Walter Ruttmann and Lotte Lendesdorff, produced by Julius Pinschewer (4 min.)

See chapter 16, Film as Knowledge and Persuasion

Pinschewer, Film Advertsing (1913), text no. 237

Lassaly, “Film Advertising and Advertising Films,” text no. 240

Nikolaus, “Advertising Film and Its Psychological Effects, text no. 246

1926 — Blumenwunder / Miracle of Flowers

Max Reichmann (81 mins), excerpt

See Bäumer, “Cinematograph and Epistemology,” text no. 33

Taut, “Artistic Film Program,” text no. 238

Schlesinger, “Kulturfilm and Cinema,” text no. 243

1926 — Der Drechsler / The Wood Turner

(Reichsstelle für den Unterrichtsfilm (11 min.)

See chapter 16

Beyfuss, “School and Film,” text. no. 241

Kayser, “Industrial Films,” 242.

1926 — Der heilige Berg / The Holy Mountain

Arnold Fanck (106 min.), excerpt

See Balázs, “The Case of Dr. Fanck,” text. no. 29

Riefenstahl, “How I Came to Film,” text no. 55

Laban/Eisner, “Dance and Film Belong Together,” text no. 58

1926 — Schaffende Hände: Die Maler / Productive Hands: The Painters

Hans Cürlis (2 min.), excerpt on Kandinsky

See chapter 16, Film as Knowedge and Persuasion

Taut, Artistic Film Program, text no. 238

Cürlis, Film is Promotion, text no. 245

1926 — Spiel der Wellen / Play of the Waves

Walter Ruttmann and Lore Leudesdorff (3 min.)

See chapter 14, Avant-Garde and Industry

chapter 16, Film as Knowledge and Persuasion

chapter 17, Sound Waves

chapter 18, Technology and the Future of the Past

1926 — Vom Werden eines Flügels

Döring-Film commissioned by C. Bechstein Piano Manufacture (22 mins), re-edited from original 40 min. version.

See chapter 16, Knowledge and Persuasion

Lassally, Film Advertising and Advertising Films, text no. 240

Kayser, Industrial Films, text no. 242

Schlesinger, Kulturfilm and Cinema, text no. 243

Dreyer, The Trick Film, text no. 244