Alfred Duskes (1881-1918) was a German film producer and

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. He was one of the German pioneers of the silent era, setting up his first production company in 1905. In 1912 he founded the original

Tempelhof Studios The Tempelhof Studios are a film studio located in Tempelhof in the German capital of Berlin. They were founded in 1912, during the silent era, by German film pioneer Alfred Duskes, who built a glass-roofed studio on the site with financial bac ...

, with financial backing from the French company Pathé.Elsaesser & Wedel p.67

Selected filmography

* '' The Eskimo Baby'' (1918) * '' Rose of the Wilderness'' (1918)

References

Bibliography

* Thomas Elsaesser & Michael Wedel. ''A Second Life: German Cinema's First Decades''. Amsterdam University Press, 1996.

External links

* 1881 births 1918 deaths German film people {{Germany-film-bio-stub