Walter Ruttmann - Advertisements

Running time: 25'

Short animated films with an element of advertising. Just as with the “Opus,” here we also have mostly moderate surfaces which take the shapes of geometric forms. To suit the needs of the advertisements Ruttmann broadened his spectrum to even more abstract forms and lines. Ruttmann created advertisements for Exelsior tyres, Kantorowicz liqueur, and GESOLEI exhibition in Düsseldorf. The pictures include advertising slogans.

Der Sieger / The winner
Production: GER 1922, 3‘

     
    

Das Wunder / The wonder
Production: GER 1922, 3‘

     
      

Das wiedergefundene Paradies / Paradise regained
Production: GER 1925, 6‘

     

 

Der Aufstieg / The climb
Production: GER 1926, 4‘

     
 

Spiel der Wellen / Play of the waves
Production: GER 1926, 3‘

     

 

„Dort, wo der Rhein…” / “There, where Rhine...”
Production: GER 1927, 6‘

     

Authors:

  • Walter Ruttmann

    Graduate painter and architect of the Universities of Zurich and Munich. Along with Hans Richter and Viking Eggeling he experimented with abstract filmmaking for some time. After 1925 Ruttmann decided to end his activities in this area, and directed his passion towards the exploration of film editing techniques. He is most famous for “Berlin: Symphony of a Big City” from 1927. Ruttmann later became part of the Nazi propaganda apparatus. He worked with Leni Riefenstahl, with whom he wrote the script to “Triumph of the Will.” He is also one of the cinematographers for “Metropolis” and “The Nibelungs” by Fritz Lang. Died in the battlefield during World War II, making a film chronicle about the western front. 

    Filmography:

    Lichtspiel Opus I-IV (1921-1925)     
    Der Sieger (1922)
    Das Wunder (1922)     
    Der Aufstieg (1926)
    Spiel der Wellen (1926)
    Berlin, die Sinfonie der Großstadt (1927)
    Dort, wo der Rhein… (1927)
    Deutscher Rundfunk (1928)
    Melodie der Welt (1929)
    Weekend (1930)
    In der Nacht(1931)
    Acciaio (1933)
    Triumph des Willens (1934)
    Im Dienste der Menschheit (1937)
    Deutsche Panzer (1940)
     

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