A Quick Inventory of a Hundred-Year-Old Silent Film Production, or the Death and Resurrection of the Janovics-Legacy Cover Image

Gyors leltár egy százéves némafilmgyártásról, avagy a Janovics-hagyaték pusztulása és feltámadása
A Quick Inventory of a Hundred-Year-Old Silent Film Production, or the Death and Resurrection of the Janovics-Legacy

Author(s): Balázs Zágoni
Subject(s): Cultural history, Film / Cinema / Cinematography
Published by: Erdélyi Múzeum-Egyesület
Keywords: silent film; Janovics; Kertész; Korda; theatre

Summary/Abstract: More then sixty silent films have been produced in Cluj between 1914 and 1920 in Jenő Janovics’s film companies, and all but two have vanished during the stormy 20th century. But suddenly, in the first decade of the 21st century, two formerly lost films have been found and restored. This article presents the circumstances in which these silent films disappeared, the way the two “new” films have been discovered, and analyzes the possibilities and chances to find more such films, especially the most successful of them, The Yellow Foal (Sárga csikó)

  • Issue Year: LXXX/2018
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 95-100
  • Page Count: 6
  • Language: Hungarian