1900s

  • Johann Schwarzer – Der Traum des Bildhauers AKA The Sculptor’s Dream (1907)

    1901-1910AustriaEroticaJohann SchwarzerSilent

    Quote:
    The artist studio is decorated with a rug, a chaise longue, a small table, a plinth, a couple of copies of classic sculptures, a vase with flowers, a few prints on the walls, and on the wood paneled lower half of the wall, an 8-pointed star [Saturn-Film’s logo]. The artist is wearing a white shift over his grey trousers, shirt and necktie, and he is wearing black shoes. With hammer and chisel, he applies the last touches on his last piece of sculpture – the three graces, standing nude on a rectangular podium covered with a white bed-shit. He steps back, contemplates his work, and rejoices on the beauty he has achieved. He goes out momentarily, and brings a bottle of champagne and a glass; before drinking, he makes a toast to his finished statue.Read More »

  • Johann Schwarzer – Eine modern Ehe AKA A Modern Marriage (1907)

    1901-1910AustriaEroticaJohann SchwarzerSilent

    Quote:
    Another boring evening at the Baron’s home; he sits and reads a magazine, while his wife sits across the reading table, reading a newspaper. The housemaid enters, bringing a message from Franz, who convenes the Baron to an urgent meeting at the Club. Excusing himself, and thoroughly kissing his wife good-evening, the Baron leaves – to meet some lady of the night in the club’s private room, with champagne and a sofa for two. At home, the Baroness gets bored, until she has an idea, soon put to practice. She sends a man a letter, signed Divine Lola, giving him rendez-vous at a discreet pension. The modern Eve is not taking her husband’s infidelities sitting down. She lays in her undershirt on a bed inviting her lover in, in a long embrace.Read More »

  • Johann Schwarzer – Sklavenraub AKA The Abduction of the Slave Women (1907)

    1901-1910AustriaExploitationJohann SchwarzerSilent

    Quote:
    Four Arab men in white burnouses, two women in grey, and one female cook in striped burnous, are sitting in front of a cave in a forest path. (From a piece of grey cloth over the entrance to the cave, two 8-pointed white stars hang incongruously: the Production company’s logo.) A pan hangs from a tripod. A girl in a colorful dress arrives with a Bucovina shepherd dog, and starts dancing in front of the men. First, half of the men go, then the others and the girl leave. Only one man stays, taking care of the food being prepared in the pot. Snivelling from their hiding place, a robber jumps him, and knocks him out with a blow. Three thugs join him, and they take whatever they find in the cave (guns). The dog comes back, and sits a while near the fallen cook. Read More »

  • Johann Schwarzer – Weibliche Assentierung AKA Female Conscripts (1908)

    Austria1901-1910EroticaJohann SchwarzerSilent

    Quote:
    A man in civil clothes, and three men in army uniforms are inspecting seven women to be recruited. They are taking and inscribing in a ledger book the women’s height, breast, thigh and ankle measurements. To do this, they all have to get topless, except one. They enter one by one, but they leave in formation, except one who strays away and remains in the room. After she is alone with one of the officers, he kisses her, and takes her to another room.Read More »

  • Johann Schwarzer – Der Angler AKA The Fisherman (1907)

    1901-1910AustriaEroticaJohann SchwarzerSilent

    Quote:
    Two women get undressed to take a bath in a lake. When a fisherman throws out his hook to catch some fish, he accidentally puts his hook in one of the women. A policeman appears to seemingly put the fisherman away.Read More »

  • Johann Schwarzer – Sklavenmarkt AKA The Slave Market (1907)

    Johann Schwarzer1901-1910AustriaExploitationShort FilmSilent

    Quote:
    In front of a round tent, a pasha is sitting on the grass; to the right of the tent’s door, covered with a patterned blanket, is a flagpole – on top of which is an 8-pointed star [Saturn-Film’s logo]. The pasha claps hands, and a servant comes to his bid. The lord is going to smoke from his water-pipe while he buys some new slave girls. The servant calls the seller and his two henchmen, who bring forth four girls in patterned burnooses. The first is totally undressed [facing the Arab, not the camera], and sent into the tent; the next girl gets topless, and also sent into the tent; the third is forced to undress by the henchmen, and also sent inside. The fourth, apparently a younger girl, is dismissed by the Arab after showing her small, firm breasts, and she goes back with the henchmen. Follows an argument over the price, and finally the slave master goes away, happy. The servant must help the pasha up, and the lord goes to his tent.Read More »

  • Johann Schwarzer – Diana im Bade AKA Diana Bathing (1907)

    1901-1910AustriaEroticaJohann SchwarzerSilent

    Wikipedia wrote:
    Saturn-film was the first Austrian film production company. It was founded by photographer Johann Schwarzer in Vienna and existed from 1906 to 1911.

    The company’s programme consisted exclusively of erotic short films, which were sold internationally via catalogue. A total of 52 films, 26 of which are preserved, can be clearly assigned to the production of the Saturn-film.Read More »

  • Johann Schwarzer – Eine aufregende Jagd AKA An Exciting Hunt (1907)

    Johann Schwarzer1901-1910AustriaEroticaSilent

    Quote:
    A young woman and her maid go for a stroll in the park. The maid goes away, and the girl, siting alone in her folding bank, starts feeling the effects of the heat. After a look around to make sure that she is alone, she strips naked, and has a refreshing bath. While she is at it, a middle-aged couple approaches and decides to rob the girl’s clothes. The woman strips her own, poor peasant’s clothes, and dons on quickly the girl’s dress; they leave in a hurry. The girl is distressed when she finds that she has only her undershirt to cover herself. A policeman wearing a white casket appears before the girl can dress, and she runs away, hunted by the policeman. Read More »

  • Georges Méliès – Le Voyage de Gulliver à Lilliput et chez les Géants AKA Gulliver’s Travels (1902)

    1901-1910FantasyGeorges MélièsSilentThe Birth of CinemaUSA

    Quote:
    Gulliver washes ashore on Lilliput, the inhabitants of which are no more than six inches tall. He later travels to Brobdingnag, a country populated by giants.Read More »

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