Studios of Babelsberg
The studios of Babelsberg were founded in 1911 In the suburbs of Berlin. They quickly become one of the world centers of the film production as well by the number of films made as by the quality of the realization. but the period Nazi rings the knell of the creativity of the studios. After one long period of drowsiness for the East-German period, the Babelsberg studios found an international radiation.
The golden age of Babelsberg
It is into 1911 that Guido Seeb makes build a large studio in an old factory artificial flowers, in Neubabelsberg in the south-west of Berlin on a ground of 47 hectares. The Babelsberg studios are among the first cinematographic studios built in Europe. The first made film is Der Tontentanz with the Danish actress Asta Nielsen which becomes the first star of the studios. The first films are made in natural light, in a kind of greenhouse. But very quickly the artificial light is adopted. It is appropriate for wonder with the cinema incipient expressionnist. Paul Wegener turns there Golem in 1920, Murnau Nosferatu the Vampire in 1922. Fritz Lang obtains for the turning of his film Metropolis the construction of an immense plate of 2.200 m ². This plate is always largest of Europe.
Rebirth of the studios of Babelsberg
In 1992, the general Company of water buys the studios of Babelsberg. At the same time, one of two televisions regional of the new Land settles in Babelsberg. Moreover, the tourist visits of the mythical studios meet a franc and unexpected success. The tourist part only employs with it 120 persons.
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