Synopsis:
The film starts with an intertitle “In Wien” . What follows are images of the streets of Vienna. The first shot depicts a monument (a Column with white decoration on several places) on a square. Some trams pass by. The next shot has the entrance to a metro station at the background. Several people walk towards the camera among who a Chassidic Jewish man (dressed in traditional clothing). He is looking around as if he doesn’t really know where to go to. The next shot shows the same man among people in a different street. Then a title: Ende des 4. Aktes [the end of act 4)
The intertitles:
* In Wien
* Ende des 4. aktes
The material:
The fragment is only 30 mtr. It is printed on stock with edgemarks : Agfa written in the style that dates it to 1920-1923. No tinting of toning. Nothing else is written on intertitles but the intertitle text.
Thoughts about the film:
Probably this the end of the fourth act of a is a fiction film with the Chassidic Jewish man as one of the characters. He is in Vienna and from the look on his face he doesn’t really know where to go (or at least cannot find his way very easily), so he is probably a stranger to the city.
Submitted by EYE Film Institute Netherlands
email: SuzanCrommelin@eyefilm.nl
Suzan Crommelin, EYE Film Institute Netherlands, 11.10.2010
The "columna rostrata" in frame no. 3 is the monument for admiral Tegetthoff that was erected in Vienna-Leopoldstadt in 1886. See http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Datei:Praterstern_1900.jpg&filetimestamp=20081129213952.
The place is called "Praterstern".
Mischa von Perger, 10.08.2011
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