Timeline
| Y/M/D | Association | Description | Place | Locale | Food | Event | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1924/12/23 | F W Murnau | Director | "The Last Laugh" starring Olaf Storm, Hermann Vallentin, Maly Delschaft and Emil Jannings is released in the German Reich. The silent film features Murnau's pioneering 'unchained' camera technique, now known as a dolly shot, and one intertitle. | Creation of Cinematic Film | |||
| 1925/00/00 | Alfred Hitchcock | Work | Working at Babelsberg next to a F Murnau shoot, Hitchcock discovers THE LAST LAUGH, an "almost the perfect film. It told its story even without subtitles, from beginning to end entirely by the use of imagery, and that had a tremendous influence on me." |
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| Particulars for The Last Laugh (film): | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Narrative Arts | Drama | ||
| Art Type | Film | ||
| Film Genre | Kammerspielfilm | German "chamber drama", films on psychological character, typically of working class | |
| Narrative Arts | Live Action | ||
| Narrative Arts | Narrative | an account of connected events | |
| Narrative Arts | Silent Film | ||
| Culture | Weimar Republic Culture | the society, arts and sciences that in Germany between 1918 and 1933 Germany's defeat in World War I in 1918 and Hitler's rise to power in 1933 | |
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| Original Language: | German | ||
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