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id: Unidentified Film No. 073
director: Unknown
year: Unknown
country: Unknown
alternative titles: Diverse Ausschnitte
Outside. A group of “Wandervögel” (a popular movement of German youth groups from 1896 onward. The name can be translated as migratory bird.) with guitars approaches a farm. - A broken down car on a country road. - “Wandervögel” are scared, the group scatters. A small boat lying in a field on the right hand side of the frame. - Medium close-up of a frightened man [frame scan 1]. - The breakdown is fixed. - A man jumps from a tree onto the roof of an approaching car. - A man with a metal tiara, which is attached to a cable [frame scan 2]. - Close-up: Different faces. - IT: "Sir French...?" (Corvin-Film, Budapest) [frame scan 3] – An elegant elderly man in an office reads a paper note [frame scan 4]. - Plan: "An dieser Stelle wirst Du erwartet. E." ("You're expected at this spot. E.") - Close-up: a woman, full of expectation [frame scan 5]. - A man yanks open the door of a taxi. - Taxi driver IT: "Ich fuhr leer." ["I drove empty."] - Close-up: A man, reflective. - IT: "Am Golfplatz." ("At the golf course.") - Scene at a golf course. - IT: "Die Reihe ist an Sir French, welcher zunächst aus Indien heimkehrte." ("It's the turn of Sir French, who has returned from India.") - The party leaves. A man affectionately puts a coat on the shoulders of a woman [frame scan 6]. Both get in a cabriolet, wave and leave. - Close-up: A woman with a veil. - Close-up: More people. - IT: "Palais des Sir French." - Close-up: A man in the rain. A riverbank, a man searches for something in the coppice. He holds a paper (a map?) in his hand.
Jeanpaul Goergen, Deutsche Kinemathek, 20.11.2008
Length: 63m
Format: 35mm, 1.33:1
Picture/Sound: coloured, silent
Notes: 'Agfa' (flat 'A') edgecode; Green, blue & redish tints.
Commentary
These photos are presumably from two films, and one of this is a Hungarian film made in 1921. The original title: Farsangi mámor, director: Marton Garas. The film is missing from the collection of Hungarian Film Archive. Cast: Oszkár Dénes (Sir Mortimer Talbot), Erzsi B. Marton (Mary, his wife), Ica Lenkeffy (Margarette, Mary her younger sister), Szvetiszlav Petrovich (Sir Richard Dennis), Kálmán Zátony (French/ Margaret's brother), Cia Jatzkó. The sort story of the film reconstructed from contemporary newspapers: On the last night of the carnival sir Richard Dennis mets Sir Mortimer Talbot and his wife Mary and her younger sister Margaret. Richard and Mary fall in love with each other and one day when Mr Talbot takes a trip, Richard visite the woman. The husband arrives unexpectedly and Richard in order to save the honor of Mary tells him that he is there to propose to Margaret. After the wedding the couple married by necessity is unhappy. One day Richard finds her wife’s letter written to a man called French in which she propose a date next Saturday when Richard goes to shooting. Richard is in ambush with a gun. He wants to shoot the man, but Margaret tells him that the man’s real name is Montgomery, and he is her brother, who has just came from India to take Richard to task for having married Margaret without love.
Gyongyi Balogh, 18.02.2009
The fragment of Farsangi mámor can now be viewed in video form alongside a range of other revealing documents right here on LOST FILMS!
Oliver Hanley, Deutsche Kinemathek 10.12.2010
The Deutsche Kinemathek has this month donated the fragment partly identified here as part of the lost Hungarian silent film Farsangi mámor (Carnival Dizziness, 1921, dir: Márton Garas) to the Hungarian National Film Archive in Budapest.
Now the fragment has returned "home", where it can be carefully preserved alongside the rest of Hungary's indigenous film heritage.
Read the original statements on the Hungarian National Film Archive's website here (in Hungarian) and on the Deutsche Kinemathek's website here (in German)
Oliver Hanley, Deutsche Kinemathek, 24.02.2010
Images from Farsangi mámor so far confirmed can now also be viewed separately here.
If anyone can identify the film from which these remaining images stem, or name any of the actors depicted therein, please leave a comment.
Oliver Hanley, Deutsche Kinemathek, 19.02.2009
Following closer inspection of the fragment in Budapest, Gyöngyi Balogh of the Hungarian National Film Archive has been able to determine exactly that the part of the fragment, which corresponds to the film Farsangi mámor, begins shortly before the intertitle "Sir French...?" and continues more or less to the end (originally represented here by frame scans 3, 5 and 6).
Accordingly these images have now been completely moved over to a separate entry, which can be viewed here.
The identity of the film (or films) from the which these remaining images stem is still unknown.
Oliver Hanley, Deutsche Kinemathek, 02.09.2010
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