RTF 306 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Bioscop, Max Skladanowsky
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German cinema and the impact of world war i. Germany served as one of the very few countries in which studios produced films to compete on a substantive level with hollywood commercial cinema of the 1920s. Silent german cinema focuses largely between 1919 and 1933, an era often written about as a true artistic golden age. Film historians have gone back and forth between france or us being the founder of the motion picture. German scholars have made a compelling argument that the. Skladanowsky brothers should be seen as making their nation"s. All arguments of "who-did-what-first" aside, germany largely remained a minor player globally in the years before the outbreak of world war i. Other european productions, as well as hollywood films, proved successful. As the war raged across europe, eventually killing over 41 million people, the german government supported the growth of domestic motion picture production.
