id: Unidentified Film No. 188
director: Jaap Speyer?
year: 1926?
country: Germany
alternative titles: Mädchenhandel

This film has a special problem. We found two parts. One part is definitely material from the film Mädchenhandel (Jaap Speyer Germany 1926).
Of the other part of the material it is not certain that it belongs to the same film. There are reasons to think it could, but also reasons against it. We already found detailed plot description of Mädchenhandel but even with that information we cannot say it is or is not part of Mädchenhandel. The only solution would be if anyone would recognize actors from the uncertain part.
In both parts the intertitles have Emelka written on them, but not exactly in the same way. The first part it has a logo (a ladies head) on the intertitles, the second part only the name Emelka.

Plot description of the the fragment that definitely belongs to Mädchenhandel:
A scene in which a committee has a conference on the problem of the white slave trade. In the next scene Ida Schulz is arriving at the railway station of Budapest. She sees a pamphlet of the station workers that gives information to women travelling alone in order to keep them out of the hands of the wrong people. The next scene shows Dr. Papamarkos on a terrace with some friends drinking something and talking to businesspartners. The next scene shows a girl (Ida Schulz) and a man (her father?) standing in front of an office window. They give a piece of paper to the man in the office window. He asks them if they know of the dangers that threaten a girl that travels abroad on her own. [this scene is maybe not in the right place]

Plot description of the fragment of which it is unclear:
A woman in a costume is in a room with an ill man. She walks through the room and puts a cloth on the head of the man. The girl walks across a farmyard from one barn to another, trying to be inconspicuous. Intertitle (translated): “Surrender or we will set the house on fire”. An elderly man is standing near the window of the house. The girl sneaks away with a horse unseen by the men that are guarding/attacking the house. Only when riding away one of them sees her. He warns a fellow man, who runs off to two men waiting near cars (one is a Mercedes). The men attacking the house wear traditional clothing, the men waiting near the cars contemporary black suits. They start chasing the girl and catch her. Meanwhile the area around the house turned into a battlefield. Hay is set on fire. Some hunters in a nearby field see this and go towards the house. When arriving the attackers flee over the gardenwall.

Production Company: Emelka Germany
Format: 35mm, full frame
Picture/Sound: b/w, tinted,silent
lenght: First part 120 mtr. Second part 125 mtr.
Notes: edgemarks images first and second part: Agfa 1924 and later.

Submitted by EYE Film Institute Netherlands
email: SuzanCrommelin@eyefilm.nl

Source notes
EYE Film Institute Netherlands

The girl in the pictures no. 3 i 4 is a great Polish star of 1920's and 1930's Jadwiga Smosarska and the movie, considering the plot description, is "Iwonka", Polish film made in 1925, considered lost in Poland.

Bild Nr. 1 zeigt Wilhelm Diegelmann und Mary KId, beide
spielen in "Mädchenhandel". Ich glaube, es ist das einzige
Foto, das man dem Film zuordnen kann.
Werner Mohr, Berlin