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Visual display of the Klovnen (The Clown), extracts

Object 1 titled Backstage at the Theatre

Backstage at the Theatre

Object 2 titled Daisy and Joe's Apartment

Daisy and Joe's Apartment

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Klovnen (The Clown), extracts

Director: Sandberg, A. W. (Anders Wilhelm), 1887-1938
Date: 1917
Publisher: Copenhagen: Nordisk Films Kompagni
Summary: From a print preserved by the Danske Filminstitut, Copenhagen. From a print preserved by the Danske Filminstitut, Copenhagen. The first extract, the scene backstage in a variety theatre, is discussed in Ben Brewster and Lea Jacobs, Theatre to Cinema, pp. 139–41, the second, in Daisy and Joe's apartment, pp. 80-82. The whole film can be viewed via the European Film Gateway at http://www.europeanfilmgateway.eu/.

Two black and white film clips. The first shows the backstage of a theater, with a dramatic scene in the green room. The second shows a conversation in a well-appointed sitting room.

- Backstage at the Theatre
  - Standard -- 1920x1200
- In copyright

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Director: Sandberg, A. W. (Anders Wilhelm), 1887-1938
Set designer: Bruun, Axel
Actor: Holberg, Erik
Actor: Houlberg, Gudrun
Cinematographer: Petersen, Karl Storm
Actor: Psilander, Valdemar, 1884-1917
Screenwriter: Sandberg, A. W. (Anders Wilhelm), 1887-1938
Actor: Schmidt, Robert
Screenwriter: Skands, Laurids
Publisher: Copenhagen: Nordisk Films Kompagni
Date: 1917
Description of Original: Scan of 35mm motion picture
Citation: Brewster, Ben, and Lea Jacobs. Theatre to Cinema: Stage Pictorialism and the Early Feature Film. 1997. Oxford University Press, 2016, pp. 80-82, pp. 139-141.
Format: Moving image
Collections: Theatre to Cinema: Stage Pictorialism and the Early Feature Film; Arts Collection

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