World Film History I, 6

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World Film History I, 6

• Sound film in Europe until WWII

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Institutions established during the Fascist era
in Italy

• After 1933 dubbing of Italian films into foreign
  languages forbidden by law all foreign films
  distributed in Italy had to be dubbed
• Films become a part of the Venice Arts Festival
  in 1934
• Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia started in
  1934
• Bianco e nero magazine
• Cinecittà studios opened 21.4.1937

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Italian cinema during the Fascist era

• ALESSANDRO BLASETTI 1860 (1934), Vecchia Guardia
  (1935), Quattro passi fra le nuvole (1942)
• MARIO CAMERINI Gli uomini, che mascalzoni!
  (1932), Il signor Max (1937), Grandi Magazini
  (1939)
• CARMINE GALLONE Scipio l'Africano (1937)
• GOFFREDO ALESSANDRINI Luciano Serra pilota
  (1938)
• FRANCESCO DE ROBERTIS Uomini sul fondo(1941)
• ROBERTO ROSSELLINI La nave bianca (1941), Un
  pilota ritorna (1942), L'uomo della croce (1943)

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German cinema in the 1930s

• JOSEF VON STERNBERG Der blaue Engel (1930)
• FRITZ LANG M (1930)
• G.W. PABST Westfront 1918 (1930), Kameradschaft
  (1931)
• LEONTINE SAGAN Mädchen in Uniform (1931)
• VEIT HARLAN Jud Süss (1940), Der grosse König
  (1942), Kolberg (1945)
• FRITZ HIPPLER Feldzug in Poland (1940), Der
  ewige Jude (1940)
• LENI RIEFENSTAHL Das blaue Licht (1932) Triumph
  des Willens (1935), Olympia I-II (1938)
• Deutsche Wochenscau newsreel compilations

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Soviet cinema in the 1930s

• SERGEI and GRIGORI VASILEV apajev (1934)
• GRIGORI KOZINTSEV LEONID TRAUBERG
  Maksim-trilogy (1935-39)
• MARK DONSKOI Gorki-trilogy (1938-40)
• VLADIMIR PETROV Peter the Great I-II (1937-39)
• IVAN PYRIEV Tractor drivers (1939)
• GRIGORI ALEXANDROVVolga - Volga (1938)
• SERGEI EISENSTEIN Que viva México!, Aleksanteri
  Nevski (1938), Ivan the Terrible I-II (1945,
  1945)

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French cinema in the 1930s

• RÉNE CLAIR Sous les toits de Paris (1930), A
  nous la liberté (1931)
• PIERRE COLOMBIER Ignace (1937)
• JEAN VIGO Zéro de conduit (1933), L'Atalante
  (1934)
• MARCEL PAGNOL Marcel (1931), Fanny (1932), Topaz
  (1932)
• JEAN RENOIR Nana (1926), La chienne (1931), Toni
  (1935), Le crime de M Lange (1936), La grande
  illusion (1937), La marseillaise (1938) La bête
  humaine (1938), La règle du jeu (1939)
• MAX OPHÜLS Da Mayerling à Sarajevo (1940)

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Poetic realism

• PIERRE CHENAL La rue sans nom (based on Marcel
  Aymés novel), Crime et châtiment (1935)
• MARCEL CARNÉ Le quai des brumes (1938), Hôtel du
  nord (1938), Le jour se lève (1939)
• JULIEN DUVIVIER La belle equipe (1936) Pépé le
  Moko (1937)
• Actors and actresses Jean Gabin, Michel Simon,
  Simone Signoret, Michéle Morgan
• Other artists Jacques Prévert, Maurice Jaubert,
  Lazare Meerson, Alexander Trauner

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Institutions created during the occupation

• Comité d'Organisation de l'industrie
  Cinématographique (C.O.I.C.) founded in 1940
  under former UFA producer Rouil Ploquin
• Grand Prix de Film D'Art Francais
• Institut des Hautes Etudes Cinématographiques
  (I.D.H.E.C.) under Marcel L'Herbier
• Cinémathèque Francaise, founded by Henri Langlois
  together with Georges Franju strenghtens its
  position

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Films and directors during the occupation

• CHRISTIAN-JACQUES La symphonie fantastique
  (1942)
• MARCEL PAGNOL La fille du puisatier (1940)
• MARCEL CARNÉ Les visiteurs du soir (1942), Les
  enfants du paradis (1945)
• HENRI-GEORGES CLOUZOT Le corbeau (1943)
• JEAN GRÉMILLON Le ciel est a vous (1944)
• Other artists working in the industry Jacques
  Prévert,
• Pierre Laroche, Alexander Trauner, Joseph Kosma,
• Pierre Fresnay, Arletty

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British cinema in the 1930s

• ALFRED HITCHCOCK Blackmail (1930), Murder
  (1930), The 39 Steps (1935)
• ALEXANDER KORDA The Private Life of Henry VIII
  (1933), Rembrandt (1936)
• HAROLD YOUNG The Scarlet Pimpernel (1935)
• HENRY HATHAWAY The Lives of a Bengal Lancer
  (USA, 1935)
• ZOLTAN KORDA The Drum (1938), The Four Feathers
  (1939), The Jungle Book (1942)
• ANTHONY ASQUITH Pygmalion

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Britain during the war

• LESLIE HOWARD Pimpernel Smith (1941)
• MICHAEL POWELL 49th Parallel (1941)
• THOROLD DICKINSON The Prime Minister (1941)
• CAROL REED The Young Mr. Pitt, The Way Ahead
  (1944)
• DAVID LEAN In Which We Serve (1942)
• JOHN BAXTER Love on the Dole (1941)