- published: 21 Apr 2008
- views: 216950
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Siam To Korea 1931
A tour of Siam (Thailand) and Korea in the 1930s. Footage from this film is available for ...
published: 21 Apr 2008
Siam To Korea 1931
A tour of Siam (Thailand) and Korea in the 1930s. Footage from this film is available for licensing from www.globalimageworks.com
- published: 21 Apr 2008
- views: 216950
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M (1931) in HD! Fritz Lang Classic Full Movie. First Sound Film for Director
M (German: M - Eine Stadt sucht einen Mörder) is a 1931 German drama-thriller directed by ...
published: 20 Apr 2012
M (1931) in HD! Fritz Lang Classic Full Movie. First Sound Film for Director
M (German: M - Eine Stadt sucht einen Mörder) is a 1931 German drama-thriller directed by Fritz Lang and written by Lang and his wife Thea von Harbou. It was Lang's first sound film, although he had directed more than a dozen films previously.
The film has become a classic which Lang himself considered his finest work.[2]
The action opens with a group of children playing a game involving a song about a child murderer in the courtyard of an apartment building in Berlin.[4] This foreshadows the appearance of Hans Beckert (Peter Lorre), a serial killer who preys on children.
The longest part of the movie is concerned with the public's reaction to a series of child murders, the frantic police investigation and, finally, the city's criminals, who organize their own manhunt because their criminal enterprises are being hampered by ever-present police activities. The audience sees Beckert only briefly until the second half of the movie; his presence is occasionally acknowledged by showing merely his shadow, shots of his body or the sound of his whistling "In the Hall of the Mountain King" by Edvard Grieg.
Beckert befriends Elsie Beckmann (Inge Landgut), a little girl playing with a ball. He buys her a balloon from a blind man. Tension gradually builds as her mother (Ellen Widmann) waits for Elsie to come home, culminating in her frantically calling for Elsie out of the window. The murder is not shown; there are no direct indications of the violence. The audience is shown only Elsie's ball rolling through long grass in front of some bushes, then the child-shaped balloon ensnared in telephone lines, and subsequently floating away.
Meanwhile, the police, under Inspector Karl Lohmann (Otto Wernicke), pursue the killer using then state of the art techniques such as fingerprinting and handwriting analysis. They also stage frequent raids and question known criminals. This affects underworld business so badly that Der Schränker ("The Safecracker", played by Gustaf Gründgens) calls a meeting of the top bosses. They decide to get rid of the killer themselves so they can resume "business". They enlist the help of the city's beggars to divide up the city "metre by metre" and keep watch over the children. Inspector Lohmann hits on the idea that the killer may have a previous psychiatric record, and orders the compilation of a list of recently released patients with a history of offenses against children. As the police visit the home of each person on the list, they discover two clues in the rooms of Beckert, who is out at the time. Thus, a race develops between the police and the criminals to catch the killer.
We see Beckert looking in a shop window. A young girl appears in the reflection. Following her down the street, he is forced to stop when the girl meets her mother. But he has been aroused; at a cafe he hurriedly drinks two cognacs, as if to quench the fires inside. When he encounters another young girl, his face shows that the urge is unstoppable, overwhelming.
After befriending the girl, Beckert makes the mistake of compulsively whistling his characteristic tune again near the blind man who sells balloons. The blind man alerts one of his friends, who tails the killer with assistance from other beggars he alerts along the way. To track him, one of them marks a large letter M (for Mörder, meaning "murderer" in German) on the back of Beckert's coat with chalk by pretending to slip on an orange peel Beckert has dropped and slapping the murderer's shoulder in seeming irritation.
When Beckert finally realizes he is being followed, he tries to get away, hiding inside a large office building. After receiving a call from the lookouts, Der Schränker assembles a team to search the building after all the day workers have left. They tie up and torture a guard for information, capture the remaining watchmen, then systematically explore the building from coal cellar to attic, finally capturing Beckert with seconds to spare after one of the watchmen trips the silent alarm. One crook, Franz, is left behind in the hasty departure and captured by the police.
- published: 20 Apr 2012
- views: 49019
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Night Beat (1931)
A 1931 crime film directed by George B. Seitz.
A young couple finds themselves mixed up wi...
published: 20 Jan 2012
Night Beat (1931)
A 1931 crime film directed by George B. Seitz.
A young couple finds themselves mixed up with mobsters planning to rob a warehouse.
Director:
George B. Seitz
Writer:
Scott Darling
Stars:
Jack Mulhall, Patsy Ruth Miller and Walter McGrail
- published: 20 Jan 2012
- views: 3736
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1931 ~ Mit der Bimmel durch Alt-Leipzig
Sehr interessante Filmaufnahmen, die uns noch einmal in das wundervolle Alte Leipzig - ann...
published: 05 Jan 2011
1931 ~ Mit der Bimmel durch Alt-Leipzig
Sehr interessante Filmaufnahmen, die uns noch einmal in das wundervolle Alte Leipzig - anno 1931 - zurückversetzen.
Gesamtes Material ist eine Leihgabe des Zentralen Bundesarchivs.
Entsprechend den Vorgaben fürs Internet, habe ich mir erlaubt, dieses nachzubearbeiten und an den musikalischen Unterton zeitlich anzupassen. (Mertin)
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Da das Video bereits eingebettet worden und somit eine Nachbeschriftung nicht mehr möglich ist, umschreiben wir es auf diesem Wege:
00:00 - 00:37
Torgauer Straße zum Torgauer Platz
00:38 - 00:53
Eisenbahnstraße / Friedrich-List-Platz
00:54 - 01:39
Rosa-Luxemburg Straße /Wintergartenstraße
01:40 - 03:12
Karl-Liebknecht Straße / Wilhelm-Leuschner Platz
03:13 - 03:24
Schillerstraße
03:25 - 05:10
Augustusplatz / Goethestraße / Hauptbahnhof
05:11 - 06:39
Tröndlinring / Brühl / Goerdelerring
06:40 - Schluss
Jahnallee/ Endstation "Angerbrücke"
*Angaben entsprechen den heutigen Bezeichnungen ^^
- published: 05 Jan 2011
- views: 17393
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Tower Bridge Road Market (1931)
This remarkable film showing working class London life was shot around 1931. The majority ...
published: 20 Jul 2009
Tower Bridge Road Market (1931)
This remarkable film showing working class London life was shot around 1931. The majority of the film concentrates on the major street market at the Bricklayer's Arms end of Tower Bridge Road. Although shot without sound, they capture the hustle and bustle of the busy streets wonderfully. We see numerous shops - housed greengrocers, butchers, a baker, a clothes dealer and even a colourman (paint seller). Watch out for a shot of Manzes Pie & Mash shop at number 87, established in 1902 and still open for business today.
Almost as fascinating as the people and traders is the range of vehicles captured. These include tradesmen's carts, a tricycle, horse-drawn carts, steam and motor lorries, and - surprisingly - what appears to be a private carriage with a liveried driver. (Chris Ellmers)
All titles on the BFI Films channel are preserved in the vast collections of the BFI National Archive. To find out more about the Archive visit http://www.bfi.org.uk/archive-collections
- published: 20 Jul 2009
- views: 34515
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Frankenstein (1931) Trailer
When Universal released Frankenstein in 1931 the film was a very unique piece to watch. Th...
published: 01 Oct 2008
Frankenstein (1931) Trailer
When Universal released Frankenstein in 1931 the film was a very unique piece to watch. The film has always been regarded as a black and white classic when it was nothing of the sort. When audiences originally saw the film in theatres the daylight scenes were in amber, the night in pale blue, the eerie scenes in green and the fiery climax in red. Universal also thought it was necessary to hype the film up a bit. As if the film wasnt scary enough on its own the studio found it in their best interest to park an ambulance out in front of many theatres and to keep two nurses on hand in the lobby to raise the chill factor. They even went as far as to place an actress in the audience during every showing who would, at the scariest moment in the film, scream, jump out of her seat, and run up the aisle and out of the theatre. Too bad we dont see theatrics like that anymore.
- published: 01 Oct 2008
- views: 120176
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Originally Banned 1931 Pre-Code Film Noir The Secret Six Wallace Beery Jean Harlow
Driected by George Hill. The Secret Six were, as without a doubt one of the most elite vig...
published: 03 Mar 2011
Originally Banned 1931 Pre-Code Film Noir The Secret Six Wallace Beery Jean Harlow
Driected by George Hill. The Secret Six were, as without a doubt one of the most elite vigilante groups in U.S. history." Their members included the chairman of Sears, the President of the Association of Commerce, the head of the Chicago Bar Association, and perhaps even publisher and media mogul William Randolph Hearst. Overtly concerned with the increasing hold Al Capone and his racketeers held on Chicago, care for their own constricting business interests while gangsters held sway over the city was also a motivating factor. They may have raised over a million dollars for their own investigators, stool pigeons and wiretaps, certainly skirting legality in some cases.
- published: 03 Mar 2011
- views: 36206
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Charming Ceylon 1931
A tour of the island of Ceylon in the 1930s. Footage from this film is available for licen...
published: 18 Apr 2008
Charming Ceylon 1931
A tour of the island of Ceylon in the 1930s. Footage from this film is available for licensing from www.globalimageworks.com
- published: 18 Apr 2008
- views: 86903
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Bimbo's Initiation (1931)
With the release of Richard Linklatter's feature-length cartoon version of a Philip K. Dic...
published: 14 Jul 2006
Bimbo's Initiation (1931)
With the release of Richard Linklatter's feature-length cartoon version of a Philip K. Dick novel, I thought it a good opportunity to turn, however briefly, to what is still, to me, the gold standard in animated cinema.
People who apply the term 'Surreal' to films produced in the early 30s by Max and Dave Fleischer are really missing the point. Indeed there are elements that correspond to that swell in the tidepool of European formalism, but to say that it's a defining characteristic (or even an important one) is to, in the same breath, dismiss everything that made their work so unique.
As is plain in even a gem as dark as their 1931 film Bimbo's Initiation, the Fleischers were not just following the aesthetic footprints of Old World models, they were running on the freedom granted them by the knowledge that the only restraint on their vision was the limits of their ability. Nothing else accounts for the exhilaration in the center of their finest work. This was a time when popular art accomodated the strange and the unkempt and the lurid and the beautiful far more easily than any point since, a circumstance that brought forth the wild ether in which something like 'Bimbo's Initiation' could be created.
There's more joy and horror in thses seven minutes than in all the latter-day cartoon emanations of the last quarter-century.
Tom Sutpen
- published: 14 Jul 2006
- views: 82000
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M (1931)
Director: Fritz Lang
Writers: Thea von Harbou and Fritz Lang
Release Date: August 31, 1931...
published: 14 Sep 2012
M (1931)
Director: Fritz Lang
Writers: Thea von Harbou and Fritz Lang
Release Date: August 31, 1931
Genre: Crime Thriller
Synopsis
This thrilling drama of crime, pursuit, and vengeance has got to be on anyone's list of all-time greats. A psychotic murderer of little girls terrorizes, and enrages, a large German city. Although the police conduct a thorough investigation, they remain baffled. But their search so disrupts the city's underworld that the criminals decide to hunt him down themselves. More efficient -- and fascistically brutal --than the establishment, and aided by a network of colorful beggars, they catch the murderer ("M"). During the subsequent mock trial, their fierce thirst for revenge bursts forth, leading to an exciting climax. Aside from being an engrossing manhunt melodrama, the film is a fascinating semi-documentary on scientific deduction methods, and astute study of schizophrenic mind, a thoughtful meditation on justice and capital punishment, and a downright chilling reflection of German society's confusions, anxieties, and violent tendencies on the eve of the Hitler era. Add to these Fritz Lang's customary excellence at expressionistic camerawork, lighting, and symbolism, creating a claustrophobic nightmare from which the killer, his victims, and audience can't escape. Watch for the dizzying high angles and geometric spaces that turn the streets into terrifying mazes; or the shot in which "M," framed by a circle of knives in a cutlery shop's window, suddenly seems trapped by his own weapons of destruction. Peter Lorre manages to make the fat, bug-eyed little psychopath both frightening and pathetic; his half-whimpered, half-screamed plea for mercy turns the character into a tragic victim of uncontrollable instincts. And Lang turns his first attempt at the new sound medium into a tour de force, using dialogue and sound effects to bridge locations and scenes, and orchestrating ingenious sound-picture counterpoints. A mother's desperate cries for her missing daughter reverberate off screen while we see unforgettably poignant images of the child's ball rolling down a hill, and her balloon entangled in telegraph wires -- a violent death made horrifying not by gory special effects buy by our imagination. "M" ultimately gives himself away by haunting Grieg melody he compulsively whistles before killing; just hearing that tune is enough to turn our blood instantly cold. A masterpiece of visual and aural expressiveness -- and an absolutely first-rate suspense drama! In German with English subtitles. 99 minutes.
Cast
Peter Lorre ........ Hans Beckert
Ellen Widmann ...... Frau Beckmann
Inge Landgut ....... Elsie Beckmann
Otto Wernicke ...... Inspector Karl Lohmann
Theodor Loos ....... Inspector Groeber
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- published: 14 Sep 2012
- views: 18396
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Dracula (9/10) Movie CLIP - Dracula and Van Helsing (1931) HD
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published: 16 Jun 2011
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Van Helsing (Edward Van Sloan) squares off with Dracula (Bela Lugosi) and scares him off by holding up a crucifix.
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Cast: Bela Lugosi, Edward Van Sloan
Director: Tod Browning, Karl Freund
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Screenwriter: Bram Stoker, Hamilton Deane, John L. Balderston, Garrett Fort, Louis Bromfield, Tod Browning, Max Cohen, Dudley Murphy, Louis Stevens
Film Description: "I am....Drac-u-la. I bid you velcome." Thus does Bela Lugosi declare his presence in the 1931 screen version of Bram Stoker's Dracula. Director Tod Browning invests most of his mood and atmosphere in the first two reels, which were based on the original Stoker novel; the rest of the film is a more stagebound translation of the popular stage play by John Balderston and Hamilton Deane. Even so, the electric tension between the elegant Dracula and the vampire hunter Professor Van Helsing (Edward Van Sloan) works as well on the screen as it did on the stage. And it's hard to forget such moments as the lustful gleam in the eyes of Mina Harker (Helen Chandler) as she succumbs to the will of Dracula, or the omnipresent insane giggle of the fly-eating Renfield (Dwight Frye). Despite the static nature of the final scenes, Dracula is a classic among horror films, with Bela Lugosi giving the performance of a lifetime as the erudite Count (both Lugosi and co-star Frye would forever after be typecast as a result of this film, which had unfortunate consequences for both men's careers). Compare this Dracula to the simultaneously filmed Spanish-language version, which makes up for the absence of Lugosi with a stronger sense of visual dynamics in the lengthy dialogue sequences. In 1999, a special rerelease of Dracula was prepared featuring a new musical score written by Philip Glass and performed by The Kronos Quartet.
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- published: 16 Jun 2011
- views: 30419
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[HD] Road to Perdition » "Rock Island, 1931" OST
"Rock Island" from Road to Perdition, 2002. Composed and conducted by Thomas Newman. Uille...
published: 09 Jan 2010
[HD] Road to Perdition » "Rock Island, 1931" OST
"Rock Island" from Road to Perdition, 2002. Composed and conducted by Thomas Newman. Uilleann pipes performed by Eric Rigler.
- published: 09 Jan 2010
- views: 48202
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Dracula (1931) - Mirror Scene
Bela Lugosi and Edward Van Sloan are bloody brilliant.
For entertainment purposes only,...
published: 13 Sep 2010
Dracula (1931) - Mirror Scene
Bela Lugosi and Edward Van Sloan are bloody brilliant.
For entertainment purposes only, no copyright infringement intended. Dracula (1931) is the property of Universal Studios.
- published: 13 Sep 2010
- views: 19078
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Very rare! Destruction of the Christ the Savior Cathedral, 1931
Revolting plans, terrible fights against religion, churches shut and blocked, priesthood m...
published: 12 Aug 2009
Very rare! Destruction of the Christ the Savior Cathedral, 1931
Revolting plans, terrible fights against religion, churches shut and blocked, priesthood massacre. Barbarous cruelty of Soviet authorities and J. Stalin.
Alternative opinion: the country needed to make a leap into industrial age. Prejudice and brakes had to be removed. The authorities had to give the population an incentive to work, whereas the religion was an archaic remainder of the tsar age. The elimination of illusions and sheer realism—that's what the late-blooming country needed to catch up with the strongest European countries.
Wikipedia says:
On 5 December 1931, by order of Stalin's minister Kaganovich, the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour was dynamited and reduced to rubble. It took more than one blast to destroy the church and more than a year to clear the debris from the site. The original marble high reliefs were preserved and are now on display at the Donskoy Monastery (see the photo). For a long time, they were the only reminder of the largest Orthodox church ever built.
- published: 12 Aug 2009
- views: 39730
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TABU - 1931 silent film classic - re-scrored by L.G.
This is the final version of the 2nd scene from F.W. Murnau's classic silent film "TABU" r...
published: 08 Oct 2007
TABU - 1931 silent film classic - re-scrored by L.G.
This is the final version of the 2nd scene from F.W. Murnau's classic silent film "TABU" re-scored by Louis Gentile and premiered at the Herbstlichen Musiktage Bad Urach festival in Germany on October 5 2007. myspace.com/louisgentile
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- published: 08 Oct 2007
- views: 75050