The only surviving excerpt of a documentary on film production in Weimar Germany, featuring the different personalities of several famous directors of the era at work on the set including Fritz Lang, Robert Wiene, and E.A. Dupont.
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Ernst Deutsch as Self
E.A. Dupont as Self
Richard Eichberg as Self
Maria Jacobini as Self
Emil Jannings as Self
Werner Krauss as Self
Fritz Lang as Self
Paul Leni as Self
Harry Liedtke as Self
F. W. Murnau as Self
Asta Nielsen as Self
Julius Pinschewer as Self
Henny Porten as Self
Valdemar Psilander as Self
Gennaro Righelli as Self
Hanns Schwarz as Self
Germany 26 June 1924
These some of the most viewed trailers for movies released in 1924:
01 November 1924
Maciste takes advantage again of a break of acting in order to wash away injustice and castigate the wicked, this time in the name of dynastic legitimacy.
09 March 1924
This Our Gang short has the group playing pirates and building a ship to sail in. Once the ship hits water it sinks but they end up on another boat when the dog unties the rope and the kids head off to sea where they must be rescued by the Navy.
21 December 1924
After serving 5 years in prison for embezzling church funds, Dr. Ephraim Nye returns to Ostable and the scornful gossip of its residents, led by Althea Bemis.
11 June 1924
Life of Juan Moreira.
28 December 1924
After graduating from a fashionable finishing school and touring Europe with her father, Selina Peake returns to the United States, where her father is accidentally killed after losing his fortune in a gambling den.
01 March 1924
A scientist attempts to transplant a gorilla's brain into a man.
18 August 1924
Homesick for America, Jack and his pals get aboard a ship U. S.-bound disguised as entertainers. As entertainers they're flops, but evoke considerable mirth among the passengers by their efforts.
04 May 1924
Lee Randon, weary of business duties and a conventional home life, acquires a long-lost sense of excitement and romance with young flapper Claire Morris.
20 January 1924
Millie Stope lives with her grandfather on a remote island. Man-child Nicholas, a fugitive from justice, also lives there and is terrorizing them - and he's interested in Millie.
05 April 1924
At the start we learn that Farina is suffering nightmares each time he eats meat. His mom tells him to stay away from the stuff but he loves it so much he sneaks out of the house and ends up eating several chickens.
01 June 1924
The boys cannot go fishing because they have to take care of their baby brothers and sisters. After trying unsuccessfully to sell their babies to some traveling gypsies, Mary shows up and tells them that her little sister just won a prize at the baby show.
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Artwork, screen shots, trailers and other imagery is © 1924 Richard Hirschfeld, Berlin.
