DAS FORUM | 11.11.2020 – 20.06.2021
„DAS MEER RUFT!“
A Venture into Sound Film
The perfection of a method of recording and reproducing sound on film was the challenge of the 1920s. Against this backdrop, an unusual partnership was formed: the textile retailer Bernhard Joseph Brenninkmeijer and the Catholic priest and physicist Heinrich Könemann set about developing such a method and eventually founded their own film company: Eidophon.
Two feature films were made - one of them was Das Meer ruft! with Heinrich George as main actor.
The exhibition in DAS Forum introduced the two protagonists and tells about the development and failure of this remarkable joint venture.
Das Meer ruft!
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Clip from „Die Abenteuerin von Turin“
In his experiments on sound film, Könemann was concerned with the intensity process, in which the acoustic signal is "stored" on a narrow strip between the image and the perforation of the film reel as an optical audio track in what is known as a rung.
Excerpt from "Die Abenteuerin von Turin“ ("The Adventuress of Turin")
Adventure film from 1931
Director: Willi Wolff
Screenplay: Willi Wolff, (Paul) Hans Rameau
Cinematography: Otto Kanturek, Emil Schünemann
Music: Vincent Scotto
Sound: Carlo Paganini, Hans Bittmann
© Murnau Stiftung
Excerpt from "Die Abenteuerin von Turin“ ("The Adventuress of Turin")
Adventure film from 1931
Director: Willi Wolff
Screenplay: Willi Wolff, (Paul) Hans Rameau
Cinematography: Otto Kanturek, Emil Schünemann
Music: Vincent Scotto
Sound: Carlo Paganini, Hans Bittmann
© Murnau Stiftung
