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Details of object number: 004710
Title:o.T.
Object name:film
Collection:ZAV001-Allgemeines
Production date:01.01.1920 — 31.12.1929
Description:Remains of a silent film from the 1920s with the Hotel Salegg (Seis am Schlern/Siusi allo Sciliar) and its surrounding area as the film location.
The film material is made up of various scenes that form only a small part of the entire feature film.
• Arrival by horse-drawn carriage in Kastelruth/Castelrotto (scene 31).
• A horse-drawn carriage crosses the upper village square of Kastelruth.
• The same horse-drawn carriage stops in front of an inn; a couple gets out and enters the building.
• The couple walk through the streets of Kastelruth and meet a young man they recognise.
• The couple walk together with the young man beneath the Schlern/Sciliar massif.
• Together they sit down at a table on a hotel terrace (Hotel Salegg?) and order something to drink. While both men are engrossed in conversation, the young woman gets up and walks away.
• The young woman settles down in the forest meadow to finally read her magazine novel undisturbed, but she is mistaken...
• Her absence at the table is noticed by the young man (scene 31).
• The young man approaches her and tries to get her attention, but she stands up angrily and pushes him away (scene 32).
• The young man rolls down a slope and only with difficulty manages to get up again. He realises that his trousers are torn (scene 35).
• The young woman quickly returns to the older man and tells him with great amusement about the incident.
• A beggar/robber is sleeping blissfully in a meadow. When he awakes, he is distracted by someone (scene 59).
• The same beggar/robber brings the young girl to his band of robbers. At first she seems frightened, but she is immediately crowned as the robber queen (scenes 66-68).
• She incites the robbers and they all leave the mountain area armed.
• This strange robber band reaches the hotel terrace, where they wake the sleeping guests. Among these are the two men who accompanied the young woman in the first scenes. The younger man runs away in fright and the young woman aims her pistol right at him (scene 72).
• The same couple (as at the beginning) leave an inn once more and get into a fine horse-drawn carriage. On the outside wall of the inn is written “Post-Gasthof zur Krone”.
The film material is made up of various scenes that form only a small part of the entire feature film.
• Arrival by horse-drawn carriage in Kastelruth/Castelrotto (scene 31).
• A horse-drawn carriage crosses the upper village square of Kastelruth.
• The same horse-drawn carriage stops in front of an inn; a couple gets out and enters the building.
• The couple walk through the streets of Kastelruth and meet a young man they recognise.
• The couple walk together with the young man beneath the Schlern/Sciliar massif.
• Together they sit down at a table on a hotel terrace (Hotel Salegg?) and order something to drink. While both men are engrossed in conversation, the young woman gets up and walks away.
• The young woman settles down in the forest meadow to finally read her magazine novel undisturbed, but she is mistaken...
• Her absence at the table is noticed by the young man (scene 31).
• The young man approaches her and tries to get her attention, but she stands up angrily and pushes him away (scene 32).
• The young man rolls down a slope and only with difficulty manages to get up again. He realises that his trousers are torn (scene 35).
• The young woman quickly returns to the older man and tells him with great amusement about the incident.
• A beggar/robber is sleeping blissfully in a meadow. When he awakes, he is distracted by someone (scene 59).
• The same beggar/robber brings the young girl to his band of robbers. At first she seems frightened, but she is immediately crowned as the robber queen (scenes 66-68).
• She incites the robbers and they all leave the mountain area armed.
• This strange robber band reaches the hotel terrace, where they wake the sleeping guests. Among these are the two men who accompanied the young woman in the first scenes. The younger man runs away in fright and the young woman aims her pistol right at him (scene 72).
• The same couple (as at the beginning) leave an inn once more and get into a fine horse-drawn carriage. On the outside wall of the inn is written “Post-Gasthof zur Krone”.
Hist. crit. notes:The film material consists of various scenes that form only a small part of the entire feature film. The complete film remains undiscovered to this day. Nevertheless, these film strips, just a few metres long, are a real gem. The film is celluloid, a highly explosive and very inflammable material that tends to spontaneously combust. This material was used in the film industry between the end of the 19th century until 1950, after which it was replaced by so-called safety film in 1951.
The film was shot in Kastelruth and at the foot of the Schlern massif. Various indications show that the film was made in the early 1920s and was most likely an Italian production. For example, one of the male actors is seen reading the “Corriere della Sera”, a Milan newspaper, and his young wife is reading the magazine novel “Nick Carter”, distributed by the Nerbini publishing house of Florence at the beginning of the 1920s.
It is assumed that the film was made as an advertisement for the Hotel Salegg under the Schlern, as the inscription “Reklame Film Salegg [Salegg publicity film]” can be read on the film can.
The film shows a colour process, namely tinting, that was common at the time. This method involves immersing selected scenes from a black and white positive copy of the film in vats containing different organic colour solutions. The dyes contained in the solution accumulate in the gelatine of the immersed film strip and tint it to the desired shade. The end result is the production of images with a monochromatic colour dominance. However, the choice of colours for the various scenes was never arbitrary, but instead meticulously considered and carefully planned. The technical standards of the time did not permit direct colour filming, nor were night shots yet possible owing to the low film speeds of the time. Attempts were therefore made using such colour processes to compensate for these shortcomings. Night scenes, for example, were coloured blue, while daylight events were immersed in yellow-orange colour solutions. However, such tinting could also be more expressionistic in nature: thus scenes of great pathos were for example tinted red or purple-pink. These colour processes were not only a cheaper and quicker alternative to colourisation, but also made possible the establishment of a real dramaturgical colour language that every cinemagoer could easily decipher.
The film was shot in Kastelruth and at the foot of the Schlern massif. Various indications show that the film was made in the early 1920s and was most likely an Italian production. For example, one of the male actors is seen reading the “Corriere della Sera”, a Milan newspaper, and his young wife is reading the magazine novel “Nick Carter”, distributed by the Nerbini publishing house of Florence at the beginning of the 1920s.
It is assumed that the film was made as an advertisement for the Hotel Salegg under the Schlern, as the inscription “Reklame Film Salegg [Salegg publicity film]” can be read on the film can.
The film shows a colour process, namely tinting, that was common at the time. This method involves immersing selected scenes from a black and white positive copy of the film in vats containing different organic colour solutions. The dyes contained in the solution accumulate in the gelatine of the immersed film strip and tint it to the desired shade. The end result is the production of images with a monochromatic colour dominance. However, the choice of colours for the various scenes was never arbitrary, but instead meticulously considered and carefully planned. The technical standards of the time did not permit direct colour filming, nor were night shots yet possible owing to the low film speeds of the time. Attempts were therefore made using such colour processes to compensate for these shortcomings. Night scenes, for example, were coloured blue, while daylight events were immersed in yellow-orange colour solutions. However, such tinting could also be more expressionistic in nature: thus scenes of great pathos were for example tinted red or purple-pink. These colour processes were not only a cheaper and quicker alternative to colourisation, but also made possible the establishment of a real dramaturgical colour language that every cinemagoer could easily decipher.
Material:celluloid
Technique:filmed (positive, 35 mm film)
Dimensions:
- duration: 11 min
Physical description:The various scenes do not always present a harmonious image centre, which can be seen from the fact that actors or various diegetic objects are only marginally visible in the photogram. The reason for this may be that the aspect ratio of the film production of the time – 4:3 for silent films – was not taken into account when the film strips were digitised.
Institution:Audiovisual archive of contemporary history
Theme:Kultur
Content: location:Seis