Wintergartenprogramm
About Wintergartenprogramm
On November 1, 1895, Max and Emil Skladanowsky projected their Bioscop program at Berlin's Wintergarten to a paying audience, with live music. The shorts were Italienischer Bauerntanz, Komisches Reck, Der Jongleur, Das boxende Känguruh, Kamarinskaja, a serpentine dance, Akrobatisches Potpourri, a wrestling bout, and Apotheose, in which the brothers bow.
Cast & crew
More about Wintergartenprogramm
Max Skladanowsky directed and photographed the program and is credited as writer. The Lumière Cinématographe had its first public Paris screening on December 28, 1895, after this Berlin show. Each number ran only a few seconds and was repeated.
Themes
Look
Max Skladanowsky filmed the acts and projected them on the Bioscop he and Emil built.
Technique
The Bioscop showed the acts to a paying Wintergarten audience on November 1, 1895.
Preservation
Individual numbers from the program survive, including the boxing kangaroo and the peasant dance.
Notes
- Performers named in the catalog include Ploetz, Larella, Sylvester Schäffer Sr., the Grunato troupe, Tscherpanoff, and Ancion.
- A companion title, Bauerntanz zweier Kinder, lists the opening dance program with slight differences in order and naming.
- Wikidata's seven-minute figure is for the compiled program, not for one act.
Scenes
- A kangaroo boxes.
- The brothers bow in the closing Apotheose.
