Performed live and talking. No kinematograph Amateur Performances of Tableaux Vivants and Local Film Exhibition in Germany around 1900

A round 1900, when the term ‘living pictures’ (or ‘lebende Bilder’ in German-speaking countries) was used, it most likely referred either to the new phenomenon of cinematograph shows or to the older but still persisting tradition oftableaux vivants. Apparently, the term expressed in both cases that...

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Published inPerforming New Media, 1890-1915 p. 273
Main Author Daniel Wiegand
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published Indiana University Press 29.05.2014
Subjects
Animated films
Anniversaries
Anthropology
Applied anthropology
Armed conflict
Armed forces
Arts
Audiences
Behavioral sciences
Cinematography
Communications
Consumers
Cultural anthropology
Cultural customs
Cultural studies
Film studies
Human populations
Military personnel
Military science
Movies
Nonverbal communication
Performing arts
Persons
Pictorial representation
Political science
Population studies
Rites of passage
Rituals
Social sciences
Tableaux
Theater
Theater history
Theatrical genres
Veterans
War
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Summary:A round 1900, when the term ‘living pictures’ (or ‘lebende Bilder’ in German-speaking countries) was used, it most likely referred either to the new phenomenon of cinematograph shows or to the older but still persisting tradition oftableaux vivants. Apparently, the term expressed in both cases that there was something in the pictures that made them alive: in film the life-like movement of images, intableaux vivantsthe physical presence of actors emulating a painting. Thus, while both media certainly presented pictures, the term ‘living’ seems to have referred to two different things. In 1913, German author and and scriptwriter
ISBN:0861967143
9780861967148