Wege zu Kraft und Schönheit (I)
director: Wilhelm Prager
years: 1924/ 1925 country: Germany history notes: Unidentified Film No. 122 alternative titles: Fragmente aus Dokumentarfilmen der 20er und 30er Jahre This film has been identified thanks to contributions from members of the Lost FIlms community. In a spacious instruction hall: a female piano player in the background. Around eight children in reform dress practice an expressionist dance (20's) Jeanpaul Goergen, Deutsche Kinemathek, 17.12.2008 Length: 9m
Format: 35mm, 1.33:1 Picture/Sound: coloured, silent Notes: 'Agfa' edgecode; Sepia tint |
![]() ![]() Our contributer, Jeanpaul Goergen, recently identified this as an excerpt from the film, Wege zu Kraft und Schönheit. In the surviving English distribution version, a 16mm print of which is available to rent from the Deutsche Kinemathek, the shot appears after the intertitle, "To swiftly react....". More information and documents concerning the film can be found online at filmportal.de and the website on film censorship in Germany between 1920 and 1938, put together by the Deutsches Filminstitut-DIF.
Oliver Hanley, Deutsche Kinemathek, 27.10.2009 The views expressed here belong to the author of the comment and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of Deutsche Kinemathek.
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