Posts tagged "german silents"
  1. Notes: 404 / 1 year ago  from bookmarklet
    Fern Andra in Des Lebens ungemischte Freude,1917
Cigaretten Bilderdienst Altona-Bahrenfeld (Vom Werden deutscher Filmkunst. Der Stümme Film; 28
from Performing Arts [also here]

    Fern Andra in Des Lebens ungemischte Freude,1917

    Cigaretten Bilderdienst Altona-Bahrenfeld (Vom Werden deutscher Filmkunst. Der Stümme Film; 28

    from Performing Arts [also here]

     
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  3. Notes: 54 / 1 year ago  from bookmarklet
    Workmen steadying a delicately balanced prop on which an actress is perched. She is portraying the Whore Of Babylon sitting astride a seven-headed serpent, in the Fritz Lang German classic Metropolis,1926 
Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images and AwaxNews

    Workmen steadying a delicately balanced prop on which an actress is perched. She is portraying the Whore Of Babylon sitting astride a seven-headed serpent, in the Fritz Lang German classic Metropolis,1926 

    Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images and AwaxNews

     
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  5. Notes: 477 / 1 year ago  from oldhollywood
    Witches gather at the Walpurgisnacht celebration on Bald Mountain in Faust (1926, dir. F. W. Murnau). The scene later inspired the “Night on Bald Mountain” sequence from Fantasia (1940)
via oldhollywood

    Witches gather at the Walpurgisnacht celebration on Bald Mountain in Faust (1926, dir. F. W. Murnau). The scene later inspired the “Night on Bald Mountain” sequence from Fantasia (1940)

    via oldhollywood

     
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  7. Notes: 133 / 1 year ago  from bookmarklet
    Mary Kid painted as a skeleton for her role in “Die Tochter des Kunstreiters”
by Fritz Kamper and director, Siegfried Philippi, c.1927

    Mary Kid painted as a skeleton for her role in “Die Tochter des Kunstreiters”

    by Fritz Kamper and director, Siegfried Philippi, c.1927

     
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  9. Notes: 154 / 2 years ago  from frenchtwist
    Betty Amann in Asphalt, 1929 [see also]
from frenchtwist

    Betty Amann in Asphalt, 1929 [see also]

    from frenchtwist

     
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  11. Notes: 104 / 2 years ago  from bookmarklet
    Camilla Horn in  F. W.Murnau ’s *  Faust,1926
from Based on truth. (and lies.)
     
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  13. Notes: 316 / 2 years ago  from bookmarklet
    Brigitte Helm by Horst von Harbou in MetropoliS,1927 
from postalesporinternet

    Brigitte Helm by Horst von Harbou in MetropoliS,1927 

    from postalesporinternet

     
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  15. Notes: 112 / 2 years ago  from bookmarklet
    Surimpression, 1929
[Two portraits of Brigitte Helm from L’Argent,1928, reproduced on the cover of the magazine “Berliner Zeitung Illustrirte” January 13, 1929]
by Studio Lorelle / Lucien Lorelle
via Yann Le Mouel

    Surimpression, 1929

    [Two portraits of Brigitte Helm from L’Argent,1928, reproduced on the cover of the magazine “Berliner Zeitung Illustrirte” January 13, 1929]

    by Studio Lorelle / Lucien Lorelle

    via Yann Le Mouel

     
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  17. Notes: 400 / 2 years ago  from oldhollywood
    Leni Riefenstahl in The Holy Mountain (1926, dir. Arnold Fanck)
from oldhollywood [also as postcard here]

    Leni Riefenstahl in The Holy Mountain (1926, dir. Arnold Fanck)

    from oldhollywood [also as postcard here]

     
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  19. Notes: 34 / 2 years ago  from bookmarklet
    Gerda Maurus in Woman in the Moon,1929
     
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  21. Notes: 70 / 2 years ago  from bookmarklet
    Brigitte Helm and  Fritz Lang on the set of Metropolis,1925-26
by Horst von Harbou [brother of screenwriter Thea von Harbou] 
from Villa Grisebach Auctions

    Brigitte Helm and  Fritz Lang on the set of Metropolis,1925-26

    by Horst von Harbou [brother of screenwriter Thea von Harbou] 

    from Villa Grisebach Auctions

     
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  23. Notes: 105 / 2 years ago 
    Betty Amann * and Gustav Fröhlich in  Asphalt,1929
     
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  25. Notes: 25 / 2 years ago  from bookmarklet
    Lil Dagover as Jane and Conrad Veidt as Cesare, somnambulist
 in The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari,1920  *
from carbonated

    Lil Dagover as Jane and Conrad Veidt as Cesare, somnambulist

     in The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari,1920  *

    from carbonated

     
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  27. Notes: 50 / 2 years ago  from frenchtwist (originally from tapwaterjackson)
    frenchtwist:via tapwaterjackson:Faust - Eine deutsche Volkssage (1926)
Via P-E Fronning [another one here]
     
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  29. Notes: 142 / 2 years ago  from theloudestvoice
    fabtastic find,thanks to theloudestvoice:] Valerie Boothby
“German actress Valerie Boothby (1906-1982) was a popular star of the  Weimar cinema in the late 1920’s and early 1930’s. She entered the film  business in 1925 during the heydays of the German silent cinema.”

    fabtastic find,thanks to theloudestvoice:] Valerie Boothby

    “German actress Valerie Boothby (1906-1982) was a popular star of the Weimar cinema in the late 1920’s and early 1930’s. She entered the film business in 1925 during the heydays of the German silent cinema.”

     
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