“History is not about the facts. It is about the context and who is telling the story.” —Prof. Milton Fine.
"Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past." –– George Orwell in his novel "1984."
"Whoever doubts the exclusive guilt of Germany for the Second World War destroys the foundation of post–war politics." –– Prof. Theodor Eschenberg, Rector, the University of Tübingen.
"If we have our own why in life, we shall get along with almost any how." – Friedrich Nietzsche
"After the end of an inglorious era, there is always a certain tendency to eradicate and forget, to remove evidence and documents from this period from historical use. This is especially true for those interested in film history when attempting to present the history of German film during the Third Reich." –– from a PhD candidate's dissertation, 1954, Munich.
POSTER GALLERY --view
over 500 German film
original posters between
1927–1954 from
Germany and from
many Axis and Neutral countries
across Europe!
Note! Posters in the Poster Gallery are PERMANENT
acquisitions which are NOT FOR SALE!! ONLY the
posters listed in our POSTER STORE are for sale.
(They have a price and order button to use.)
School Classroom filmstrips and teacher guides
The use of 35mm filmstrips was a common method to show children images of a new feature film or documentary film, and to tell the story and provide narration by their school teacher. This class presentation either prepared the students for a screening of the actual motion picture, or provided a substitute for the actual film if no screening was possible
The filmstrip and teacher guide to the images – frame by frame – was produced by Filmosto – Projectoren G.m.b.H. Dresden. Filmosto also sold filmstrip projectors to schools and institutions; as well as to the general public.
A typical Filmosto projector from 1930's Germany – (not in our Collection):
(In the Third Reich it was called Filmosto, and in the DDR, of which Dresden was an important southern city, the company was re-born as Vertrieb ASCOP – Werner Nowak.)
We have over the years collected six filmstrips from Filmosto. They are for the films:
Annelie *
Heimkehr
Kadetten *
Die Rothschilds *
Der Weg ins Freie
Wunschkonzert
We also have three study guides for the films marked with an asterisk. In addition, we own the study guide for the film U-Boote-Westwärts! although we do not have the filmstrip for the movie. We also own two yellow and black metal canisters for the filmstrips as sold by Filmosto. Thus, for Die Rothschilds we own its canister, the teacher guide and the filmstrip – a complete set!
Our four teacher study guides, which range from 16 to 20 pages in length:
Two sample pages from the teacher guide for Karl Ritter's Kadetten:
The start of the Kadetten filmstrip:
The filmstrips provided a high quality resolution of scenes from the motion picture, as is evident from these images taken directly off the filmstrip for Ucicky's Heimkehr:
