Feature Films in Europe
Geyer presented with this first film printing lab in Germany, dealing then with the photographic development of negative films and the production of positive copies for's cinema, the foundation for the emergence of a new service branch in the film industry, the post-production . Up to this point was the production of a film - from script through recording and development, through to copy - still completely in one hand. Previously, movies were still weary of photographers, strip by strip, develops and copied.
Because the footage was still used as nitrocellulose ("celluloid") broke out in 1917 a large fire which destroyed a large part of the film camp.
In 1918, the "Geyer-Maschinenbau GmbH", which is the production of film cameras, film editing equipment, and had given the like of the Geyer plants spun off, they transferred their headquarters from 1924.
Geyer 1922 rationalized the previously time-consuming manual preparation of screening copies of proprietary equipment and processes. His first original design was as a perforating machine with four-sided hole, which today is still standard. Also in 1922 the Geyer-Werke worked with Hans Vogt , Joseph Massolle and Jo Engl , the inventors of the still valid optical sound (Tri-Ergon), at the first sound film production.
In 1926 the company "Geyer-Werke AG" renamed, with headquarters in the district of Berlin-Neukölln , Harzer Strae 39-46. The renowned architect Otto Rudolf Salvisberg was created with a 1927-1928 expansion of brick pavers (with stylistic elements of the New Objectivity enabled). The building is now a historical monument.
For the film, "Nazi Party 1934" ( Triumph of the Will ) of Leni Riefenstahl Adolf Hitler specifically prompted the establishment of an "office of the Nazi Party film," reproducing equipment located in the Geyer-Werke. On 6 December 1934 Hitler visited Riefenstahl during their work in the Geyer-Werke and "... has here, the leaders can demonstrate the first part of the triumph of the will '". Also, an "archive of the Nazi Party" (later known as "film archive National socialism ") is Riefenstahl had established on behalf of the Nazi party on the grounds of the Geyer-Werke. The whereabouts of the archive is still a mystery.
After the Second World War, the Geyer-Werke GmbH in 1949 in Hamburg-Rahlstedt refounded in 1954 were also Geyer-Werke in Berlin reopened. The Hamburg Geyer-Werke synchronized and replicated from January 1950, the films of the " New German newsreel , "which had been cut in the adjacent building. Many popular films of the postwar period were processed in the Geyer-Werke, for example, " The Third Man , "" Great Freedom No. 7 "and" Sissi ", in later years, all films by Rainer Werner Fassbinder and most productions of Wim Wenders , the television series crime scene , and more recently as the movies Run Lola Run , The Untouchables , The Lives of Others or Waltz with Bashir .
In the early 1960s, after the new medium of television was widespread, Geyer also took the video post-production into the company's program, 1961, dubbing studios .
Since 1967, the Geyer-Werke on the grounds of the FSM in Munich are Unterföhring represented. Since the beginning of 1988 include the lab and the video transform the Bavaria Film GmbH in Hamburg Geyer Geiselgasteig to-Werke GmbH In return, Bavaria Film GmbH has since been involved with about 25% of the Geyer-Werke. In 1989, the Geyer-Werke GmbH, the "Atlantic Film" lab in Hamburg-Ohlstedt, 1999, the "Bavaria tone," one of the largest and most modern studios in Germany. The Geyer-Werke in Unterföhring no longer exist, however.
In 1996, the current CineMedia Film AG, the majority of the shares in the Geyer Group. 1998 a company was renamed "CineMedia Film AG Geyer-Werke". The Geyer works as "CinePostproduction GmbH & Co. KG Berlin, Geyer" still represented with a branch at the original location in the Harz Berliner Strasse 39th The company is headquartered today in CinePostproduction Gruenwald near Munich, is active in all stages of digital image processing of cinema and television films and is the largest post production companies in Germany. The company is a subsidiary of CDAX listed " CineMedia Film AG "(52.85% CineMedia in turn belongs to the Tele München GmbH + Co. television production company of Dr. Herbert G. Kloiber and 27.04% of the Bavaria Film GmbH) . The group also includes the CinePostproduction "Atlantic Film" in Hamburg, the "Bavaria Bild & Ton" in Munich, as well as the establishment "Geyer Cologne".
Posted by Charles Geyer: "The bohemian film industry is the level of creativity in film finishing in the highest degree prejudicial."
Because the footage was still used as nitrocellulose ("celluloid") broke out in 1917 a large fire which destroyed a large part of the film camp.
In 1918, the "Geyer-Maschinenbau GmbH", which is the production of film cameras, film editing equipment, and had given the like of the Geyer plants spun off, they transferred their headquarters from 1924.
Geyer 1922 rationalized the previously time-consuming manual preparation of screening copies of proprietary equipment and processes. His first original design was as a perforating machine with four-sided hole, which today is still standard. Also in 1922 the Geyer-Werke worked with Hans Vogt , Joseph Massolle and Jo Engl , the inventors of the still valid optical sound (Tri-Ergon), at the first sound film production.
In 1926 the company "Geyer-Werke AG" renamed, with headquarters in the district of Berlin-Neukölln , Harzer Strae 39-46. The renowned architect Otto Rudolf Salvisberg was created with a 1927-1928 expansion of brick pavers (with stylistic elements of the New Objectivity enabled). The building is now a historical monument.
For the film, "Nazi Party 1934" ( Triumph of the Will ) of Leni Riefenstahl Adolf Hitler specifically prompted the establishment of an "office of the Nazi Party film," reproducing equipment located in the Geyer-Werke. On 6 December 1934 Hitler visited Riefenstahl during their work in the Geyer-Werke and "... has here, the leaders can demonstrate the first part of the triumph of the will '". Also, an "archive of the Nazi Party" (later known as "film archive National socialism ") is Riefenstahl had established on behalf of the Nazi party on the grounds of the Geyer-Werke. The whereabouts of the archive is still a mystery.
After the Second World War, the Geyer-Werke GmbH in 1949 in Hamburg-Rahlstedt refounded in 1954 were also Geyer-Werke in Berlin reopened. The Hamburg Geyer-Werke synchronized and replicated from January 1950, the films of the " New German newsreel , "which had been cut in the adjacent building. Many popular films of the postwar period were processed in the Geyer-Werke, for example, " The Third Man , "" Great Freedom No. 7 "and" Sissi ", in later years, all films by Rainer Werner Fassbinder and most productions of Wim Wenders , the television series crime scene , and more recently as the movies Run Lola Run , The Untouchables , The Lives of Others or Waltz with Bashir .
In the early 1960s, after the new medium of television was widespread, Geyer also took the video post-production into the company's program, 1961, dubbing studios .
Since 1967, the Geyer-Werke on the grounds of the FSM in Munich are Unterföhring represented. Since the beginning of 1988 include the lab and the video transform the Bavaria Film GmbH in Hamburg Geyer Geiselgasteig to-Werke GmbH In return, Bavaria Film GmbH has since been involved with about 25% of the Geyer-Werke. In 1989, the Geyer-Werke GmbH, the "Atlantic Film" lab in Hamburg-Ohlstedt, 1999, the "Bavaria tone," one of the largest and most modern studios in Germany. The Geyer-Werke in Unterföhring no longer exist, however.
In 1996, the current CineMedia Film AG, the majority of the shares in the Geyer Group. 1998 a company was renamed "CineMedia Film AG Geyer-Werke". The Geyer works as "CinePostproduction GmbH & Co. KG Berlin, Geyer" still represented with a branch at the original location in the Harz Berliner Strasse 39th The company is headquartered today in CinePostproduction Gruenwald near Munich, is active in all stages of digital image processing of cinema and television films and is the largest post production companies in Germany. The company is a subsidiary of CDAX listed " CineMedia Film AG "(52.85% CineMedia in turn belongs to the Tele München GmbH + Co. television production company of Dr. Herbert G. Kloiber and 27.04% of the Bavaria Film GmbH) . The group also includes the CinePostproduction "Atlantic Film" in Hamburg, the "Bavaria Bild & Ton" in Munich, as well as the establishment "Geyer Cologne".
Posted by Charles Geyer: "The bohemian film industry is the level of creativity in film finishing in the highest degree prejudicial."