Oskar Messter

a silent movie by Robert Wiene

A silent movie by Robert Wiene

A young intellectual falls in love with a circus performer and decides to cultivate her into a lady and marry her. Eventually however she decides to return to her tightrope walker lover.

A millionaire steals an ancient idol causing some natives call upon him a terrible curse.

A blind patient and her doctor fall in love, but the doctor fears that she will no longer love him if her sight is restored.

A silent movie by Robert Wiene.

a silent movie by Robert Wiene

A silent movie by Robert Wiene

A young intellectual falls in love with a circus performer and decides to cultivate her into a lady and marry her. Eventually however she decides to return to her tightrope walker lover.

A millionaire steals an ancient idol causing some natives call upon him a terrible curse.

A blind patient and her doctor fall in love, but the doctor fears that she will no longer love him if her sight is restored.

A silent movie by Robert Wiene.

a silent movie by Robert Wiene

The tiny Hans meets the woman of his dreams. She is a big powerful nurse. Hans disguises himself as a baby.

Documentary about early cinema

Short melodrama about a young woman who is executed because she shot at an army patrol. Her fiance turns out to be the leader of this army unit, but he can not save her.

A power plant worker (Garrison) eagerly joins a strike for higher wages. When his young daughter falls severely ill and needs emergency surgery, the strike he helped organize shuts down the city's power grid. The operating room plunges into darkness during the critical procedure. Overcome by the tragedy, the worker is convinced by his wife (Porten) to abandon the strike.

Disguised chef is recognized and thrown out.

Following the prestige trend of the era, Medea was marketed as a premium drama. Produced in 1910, it cleared regional censorships and reached German screens until 1911. Rather than adapting Euripides directly, the film is an interpretation of Austrian playwright Franz Grillparzer’s famous 1821 theatrical trilogy, Das Goldene Vlies (The Golden Fleece), specifically its third segment.

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Henny Porten plays the dual role of a rather indecorous Countess and her kitchen maid Karoline Blum, an amateur actress.

a silent movie by Robert Wiene

a silent movie by Robert Wiene

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a silent movie

The two daughters of the fisherman find husbands.

Klara and her father have been alone since her mother died. Her close friend Hans leaves for the military, and on returning as a fine young man, rushes to see Klara. As their families work to keep them apart, their love grows stronger and stronger.

A nude couple pose in an art studio on a square rug, while the camera does a circular traveling around them; the woman has her right knee on the floor and her right arm raised in front of her face, holding the man's thighs with her right, while the man is bent forward, as if looking in the distance.

A nude couple pose in an art studio on a square rug, while the camera does a circular traveling around them; the woman has her right knee on the floor and her right arm raised in front of her face, holding the man's thighs with her right, while the man is bent forward, as if looking in the distance.

a silent movie by Robert Wiene

Footage of spectators at the Friedenau velodrome in Berlin, dating from 1904. Several spectators, including a woman, are standing in front of a wooden fence. The men are wearing hats and caps; some are dressed in suits. The woman is wearing a long white dress and a hat. The spectators begin to jostle and push; one man tries to shove his way to the fence.

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a silent movie by Robert Wiene

An aria from Daniel Auber's comic opera on phonograph accompanies the images on screen.

A short early sound film of soldiers following the orders of their commander.

Her Sport is a 1919 German silent comedy film directed by Rudolf Biebrach and starring Henny Porten, Georg H. Schnell and Hermann Thimig. A man-hating young woman tries to break up her friend's new marriage, but while in the Alps she meets her own ideal man.

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This film shot by Oskar Messter shows a visit by Wilhelm II the AG Vulcan in Szczecin, one of the then leading shipyards in Germany. On display are the Emperor and some military and civil dignitaries, who walk on the landing stage of the factory site on the occasion of the launch of the transatlantic speed steamer "Kaiser Wilhelm the Great" a group of spectators. In his memoirs Messter has described the motion picture as "the first good close-up of the Emperor."

Short film produced by Messter-Film for the Seventh War Bond drive.

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A man with a walking stick and a large black hat is walking along a narrow path in a garden or park. A large Great Dane is running around him. The hat largely obscures his face, which is only visible for a brief moment. It is possible that this is Otto von Bismarck and his Great Dane, the imperial bitch Rebecca "Beckchen." Since the bitch died in 1897, the photograph must have been taken in 1896 or 1897.

A man with a walking stick and a large black hat is walking along a narrow path in a garden or park. A large Great Dane is running around him. The hat largely obscures his face, which is only visible for a brief moment. It is possible that this is Otto von Bismarck and his Great Dane, the imperial bitch Rebecca "Beckchen." Since the bitch died in 1897, the photograph must have been taken in 1896 or 1897.

An ambitious wife spends all of her husband's hard-earned money and then commits suicide out of remorse.

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