Cinema Europe: The Other Hollywood

1995-1995
1 season
Alla Risacca
Documentary

Chronicles the birth of European cinema, from the Lumiere brothers to World War I, and then the first golden age of Swedish cinema, from the formation of Svenska Bio to the departure for Hollywood of Stiller and Sjöström. The French build the first studio, invent the traveling shot, and experiment in sound. Max Linder becomes the first comedic star. The Italians do spectacle and early realism. Germans invent film propaganda and have Lubitsch. The Danish cinema is rich before the war. An affectionate portrait of Swedish cinema appreciates its cinematography, led by Jaenzon, its conversion of novels into film, and the emergence of a production company that owned its own theaters.

1995-1995
1 season
Alla Risacca
Documentary

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Kenneth Branagh

Narrator

Jean-Louis Trintignant

Narrator (French version)

Ulrich Tukur

Narrator (german version)

Sidney Gilliat

Self

Episode 1

Where It All Began

58 mins

This first program traces the birth of the industry in Europe from the first moving pictures screened in 1895 through to the First World War. It contains glimpses of the hand-colored fantasies of George Melies, the sly comedy of Max Linder, the epic vision of Abel Gance, war films from Italy, early action films from Denmark and propaganda films from Britain and Germany. Going to the cinema in the last years of the 19th century wasn't much fun. You would probably be treated to such gripping titles as Leaving the Factory at Lyon or The Baby's Meal in a damp overcrowded tent that was likely to burn down (film being highly flammable). Things soon picked up, though, as this meticulous history of European cinema shows: by 1910, audiences were enjoying comedy, epics, romances and fantasies, some of them hand colored, some of them even with sound.

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