Ghosts Before Breakfast
About Ghosts Before Breakfast
Bowler hats leave the men who wear them and fly in a line. Cups, clocks, and other objects refuse the morning they belong to. Hans Richter's short has no story that ties the shots together. The German title is Vormittagsspuk.
Cast & crew
More about Ghosts Before Breakfast
Stop motion and live action. Paul Hindemith wrote a score for a player piano. That score is lost. Darius Milhaud, Madeleine Milhaud, Werner Graeff, Walter Gronostay, Jean Oser, and Richter appear. Later scores include one by Ian Gardiner in 2006 and one by Jean Hasse in 2008. A copy is on the Internet Archive as vormittagsspuk-aka-ghosts-before-breakfast_1928.
Themes
Look
Richter mixes stop-motion objects with people in the street and at a table.
Music
Paul Hindemith's original player-piano score is lost. Later scores exist, including Ian Gardiner's (2006) and Jean Hasse's (2008).
Preservation
The picture survives. Hindemith's score does not.
Notes
- The hats fly in formation. They are not a trick ending.
- Hindemith's player-piano part does not survive.
- The Real Tuesday Weld and Ensemble 10/10 have supplied later tracks.
- The country on the record is the Weimar Republic.
Scenes
- The bowler hats lift off and fly in a row.
Also available
- Internet Archive (vormittagsspuk-aka-ghosts-before-breakfast_1928)
