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Hans RichterVormittagsspuk - Ghosts Before Breakfast (1927)

Experimental film by German artist Hans Richter.


This movie is part of the collection: Feature Films

Producer: Hans Richter
Audio/Visual: sound (lost), b/w
Keywords: Hans Richter; Dada

Creative Commons license: Public Domain

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Reviewer: JambuWax - - June 24, 2008
Subject: Wild bowler hats
As creative with the (then) new film medium as anything I have watched from the post 2000s.

Reviewer: Eva Vikstrom - - October 5, 2007
Subject: Experimental Stop Motion Animation of the 1920s
What a joy to find this film by Hans Richter on this site, and in an excellent mpeg2 copy! Richter (1888-1976) was a painter and film-experimenter, born in Berlin, moved to Zürich in 1916 and joined the Dada movement. In 1919 he started to experiment with film together with Viking Eggeling. Richter emigrated to USA 1940. His 8 films from the 1920s can be seen at YouTube and here: http://www.ubu.com/film/richter.html.

The ghosts in "Vormittagsspuk" are bewildering rather than scary. One morning a suburban house is invaded by four flying bowler hats - the ghosts - and a series of strange events are staged in playful stop motion. The sound is lost because the sound version - with music by Paul Hindemith - was confiscated by the Nazis as "Entartete Kunst" (Degenerate art).