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Frederic Zelnik
Frederic Zelnik (born Friedrich Zelnik; 17 May 1885 – 29 November 1950) was an Austrian producer, director, and actor. He was one of the most important producers-directors of the German silent cinema. Zelnik achieved success through period operetta films in the 1920s and 1930s. Biography Friedrich Zelnik was born into a Jews, Jewish family in Czernowitz, today in Ukraine, at the time the capital of the Duchy of Bukovina in the Austrian part of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy. After studying in Vienna, Friedrich Zelnik worked as an actor in theaters in Nürnberg, Theater Aachen, Aachen, Worms, Germany, Worms, Prague and finally Berlin - in the theaters Theater an der Königsgrätzer Straße, Berliner Theater, and Komödienhaus. In 1914 Friedrich Zelnik began acting in films, and after 1915 producing and directing movies while still appearing in roles as an actor in other director'films. In 1918 he married a young Polish ballet dancer turned film actress named Lya Mara and promote ...
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Chernivtsi
Chernivtsi (, ; , ;, , see also #Names, other names) is a city in southwestern Ukraine on the upper course of the Prut River. Formerly the capital of the historic region of Bukovina, which is now divided between Romania and Ukraine, Chernivtsi serves as the administrative center for the Chernivtsi urban hromada, the Chernivtsi Raion, and the Chernivtsi Oblast, oblast itself. The Chernivtsi population is and the latest Ukrainian Census (2001), census in 2001 was 240,600. The first document that refers to this city dates back to 1408, when Chernivtsi was a town in the region of Moldavia, formerly as a defensive fortification, and became the center of Bukovina in 1488. In 1538, Chernivtsi was under the control of the Principality of Moldavia under Crown of the Kingdom of Poland, Polish suzerainty, later under Ottoman Empire suzerainty, and the Moldavian control lasted for two centuries until 1774, when Archduchy of Austria, Austria took control of Bukovina in the aftermath of t ...
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Mariett Dances Today
''Mariett Dances Today'' (German: ''Heut tanzt Mariett'') is a 1928 German silent romance film directed by Frederic Zelnik and starring Lya Mara, Fred Louis Lerch and Harry Halm.Nelmes & Selbo It was shot at the Staaken Studios in Berlin and on location in the Swiss resort of St. Moritz. It was made by the German subsidiary of First National Pictures. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Andrej Andrejew and Erich Zander. Cast * Lya Mara as Mariett * Fred Louis Lerch as Robert van Dammen * Harry Halm as Ein junger Maler * Ralph Arthur Roberts as Prinz Beaufort * Kurt Gerron as Der Besitzer der Bar, Brigon * Jakob Tiedtke as Der Bürgermeister * Sophie Pagay as Die Haushälterin * Karl Harbacher as Der Schuhmacher * Josefine Dora as Seine Mutter * Fritz Kampers * Ivan Koval-Samborsky * Adele Sandrock * Franz Schafheitlin Plot summary The story begins like a fairytale: A stork, hunting for food in a Dutch village pond, picks out a baby girl and drops her i ...
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The Heiress Of The Count Of Monte Cristo
''The Heiress of the Count of Monte Cristo'' () is a 1919 German silent film directed by Frederic Zelnik and starring Lya Mara, Werner Funck, and Vilma von Mayburg. The film's sets were designed by the art director Artur Günther. Cast *Lya Mara as Helene Montfort *Werner Funck Werner Funck (4 February 1881 – 6 October 1951) was a German stage and film actor, singer and film director.Grange p.159 Selected filmography Actor * '' The Heiress of the Count of Monte Cristo'' (1919) * '' The Girl from Acker Street'' (1920) ... as Jean de Renard *Vilma von Mayburg as Frau von Renard *Aenderly Lebius * Hermann Vallentin as Advokat Dubarry *Hugo Falke as Richard de Renard *Harry Berber as Herr Scharlan *Tonia Gudowicy as Tochter Renard *Edwin Schäfer References External links * Films of the Weimar Republic Films directed by Frederic Zelnik German silent feature films German black-and-white films {{1910s-Germany-film-stub ...
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Charlotte Corday (film)
''Charlotte Corday'' is a 1919 German silent historical drama film directed by Frederic Zelnik and starring Lya Mara and Hermann Vallentin. No surviving copies are known. Cast *Lya Mara as Charlotte Corday Marie-Anne Charlotte de Corday d'Armont (27 July 1768 – 17 July 1793), known simply as Charlotte Corday (), was a figure of the French Revolution who assassinated revolutionary and Jacobins, Jacobin leader Jean-Paul Marat on 13 July 1793. Cor ... * Hermann Vallentin * Wiktor Biegański * Hermann Seldeneck References External links * Films of the Weimar Republic Films directed by Frederic Zelnik German silent feature films German black-and-white films French Revolution films German historical films 1910s historical films 1910s German films {{1910s-Germany-film-stub ...
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His Majesty The Hypochondriac
''His Majesty the Hypochondriac'' () is a 1918 German silent comedy film directed by Frederic Zelnik and starring Lisa Weise, Karl Beckersachs, and Grete Diercks. Cast * Lisa Weise as Serene Hypochondriac *Karl Beckersachs as Husband of Serenity Hypochondriac * Grete Diercks as Niece of Serenity *Kurt Vespermann Kurt Vespermann (1 May 1887 – 13 July 1957) was a German stage and film actor. Career Vespermann was born into a theatrical family in Culmsee, West Prussia, Imperial Germany, now Chełmża, Poland. His great-grandparents were actors a ... *Jenny Marba * Gustav Botz *Aenderly Lebius References External links * Films of the German Empire German silent feature films Films directed by Frederic Zelnik 1918 comedy films German black-and-white films Silent German comedy films 1910s German films 1910s German-language films German-language comedy films {{1910s-Germany-film-stub ...
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Hitler
Adolf Hitler (20 April 1889 – 30 April 1945) was an Austrian-born German politician who was the dictator of Nazi Germany from 1933 until Death of Adolf Hitler, his suicide in 1945. Adolf Hitler's rise to power, He rose to power as the leader of the Nazi Party, becoming Chancellor of Germany#Nazi Germany (1933–1945), the chancellor in 1933 and then taking the title of in 1934. His invasion of Poland on 1 September 1939 marked the start of the Second World War. He was closely involved in military operations throughout the war and was central to the perpetration of the Holocaust: the genocide of Holocaust victims, about six million Jews and millions of other victims. Hitler was born in Braunau am Inn in Austria-Hungary and moved to German Empire, Germany in 1913. He was decorated during his service in the German Army in the First World War, receiving the Iron Cross. In 1919 he joined the German Workers' Party (DAP), the precursor of the Nazi Party, and in 1921 was app ...
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Hollywood, California
Hollywood, sometimes informally called Tinseltown, is a List of districts and neighborhoods in Los Angeles, neighborhood and district in the Central Los Angeles, central region of Los Angeles County, California, within the city of Los Angeles. Its name has become synonymous with the Cinema of the United States, U.S. film industry and the people associated with it. Many notable film studios such as Sony Pictures, Walt Disney Studios (division), Walt Disney Studios, Paramount Pictures, Warner Bros., and Universal Pictures are located in or near Hollywood. Hollywood was incorporated as a municipality in 1903. The North Hollywood, Los Angeles, northern and East Hollywood, Los Angeles, eastern parts of the neighborhood were Merger (politics), consolidated with the City of Los Angeles in 1910. Soon thereafter, the prominent film industry migrated to the area. History Initial development H. J. Whitley, a real estate developer, arranged to buy the E.C. Hurd ranch. Whitley shared ...
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Sound-on-film
Sound-on-film is a class of sound film processes where the sound accompanying a picture is recorded on photographic film, usually, but not always, the same strip of film carrying the picture. Sound-on-film processes can either record an Analog signal, analog sound track or Digital data, digital sound track, and may record the signal either optical sound, optically or magnetism, magnetically. Earlier technologies were sound-on-disc, meaning the film's soundtrack would be on a separate phonograph record. History Sound on film can be dated back to the early 1880s, when Charles E. Fritts filed a patent claiming the idea. In 1923 a patent was filed by E. E. Ries, for a variable density soundtrack recording, which was submitted to the SMPE (now Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, SMPTE), which used the mercury vapor lamp as a modulating device to create a variable-density soundtrack. Later, Theodore Case, Case Laboratories and Lee De Forest#Phonofilm sound-on-film pro ...
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Phonofilm
Phonofilm is an optical sound-on-film system developed by inventors Lee de Forest and Theodore Case in the early 1920s. In 1919 and 1920, de Forest, inventor of the audion tube, filed his first patents on a sound-on-film process, DeForest Phonofilm, which recorded sound directly onto film as parallel lines. These parallel lines photographically recorded electrical waveforms from a microphone, which were translated back into sound waves when the movie was projected. The Phonofilm system, which recorded synchronized sound directly onto film, was used to record vaudeville acts, musical numbers, political speeches, and opera singers. The quality of Phonofilm was poor at first and while it improved somewhat in later years, it was never able to match the fidelity of sound-on-disc systems such as Vitaphone, or later sound-on-film systems such as RCA Photophone or Fox Movietone. The films of de Forest were short films made primarily as demonstrations to try to interest major studios i ...
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Lee DeForest
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Der Rote Kreis (1929 Film)
''The Crimson Circle'' () is a 1929 British-German sound part-talkie crime film directed by Frederic Zelnik and starring Lya Mara, Fred Louis Lerch, and Stewart Rome. In addition to sequences with audible dialogue or talking sequences, the film features a synchronized musical score and sound effects along with English intertitles. The sound was recorded via the De Forest Phonofilm sound-on-film process. The film is an adaptation of the 1922 Edgar Wallace novel ''The Crimson Circle (novel), The Crimson Circle'' in which Scotland Yard detectives battle a gang of blackmailers. A previous UK version was The Crimson Circle (1922 film), filmed in 1922. The film, a co-production between British International Pictures and Efzet Film. In March 1929, this film and ''The Clue of the New Pin (1929 film), The Clue of the New Pin'', filmed in the British Phototone sound-on-disc process, were previewed in London. As with most early sound films, a silent version was edited down from the sound v ...
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Dubbing (filmmaking)
Dubbing (also known as re-recording and mixing) is a post-production process used in filmmaking and the video production process where supplementary recordings (known as doubles) are lip-synced and "mixed" with original production audio to create the final product. Often this process is performed on films by replacing the original language to offer voiced-over translations. After sound editors edit and prepare all the necessary tracks—dialogue, automated dialogue replacement (ADR), effects, Foley (filmmaking), foley, and music—the dubbing mixers proceed to balance all of the elements and record the finished soundtrack. While dubbing and ADR are similar processes that focus on enhancing and replacing dialogue audio, ADR is a process in which the original actors re-record and synchronize audio segments. This allows filmmakers to replace unclear dialogue if there are issues with the script, background noise, or the original recording. The term "dubbing" also commonly refers ...
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