Zeppelin und Autowäsche (LFS 06056 2)
Résumé
Description
Totale: Vorüberfliegender Zeppelin / junges Paar an einem Balkon, schauen lachend in die Kamera. / Halbtotale: zwei junge Männer putzen ihre Autos. Die Wagen tragen alte Nummernschilder für Baden (IV B 49413 und IV B 70925 ). / Blick aus dem Auto auf einen der putzenden Männer. / Halbtotale: Drei Frauen stehen im Halbkreis beieinander und unterhalten sich
Contexte et analyse
A Zeppelin, a young couple and a car wash - that shows this little film of about a minute. Much of the space between the few settings, a space that disappears into narrative (documentary) film in the continuity of a story. An association space in a sense, images of a small cinematic 'collage' that leads into the collective fantasies of the Germans.
First there is the (camera) view upwards, a shot from the Freiburg sky around 1927. A zeppelin hovers diagonally in the picture and changes direction after a cut. The appearance of an airship still has experience value, is a small aesthetic event that can be even more powerful in the moving image. And that can become a glimpse into the past, into the mentality story of the Germans, for whom this controllable aircraft had become a symbol of technical progress some years before.
Ferdinand Graf von Zeppelin - a former general staff officer, who devoted himself entirely to the construction of airships in 1891 - had not only led the German aviation into a new age, he had created with the Zeppelin a symbol of the conquest of the airspace, the object of national identification has been. The Zeppelin went down in the history of enthusiasm for technology, which after the accident in 1908 in Echterdingen - the "Z3" exploded - with the Zeppelin donation produced a kind of sacrificial ritual of the Germans. A new aircraft, which incidentally caught up with France's advantage in aviation. As a sublime apparition in the sky, it gained an almost mythical aura that united the nation in a tumult of enthusiasm.
The image of a Zeppelins could evoke the past, the time of a German Reich that had given way to an unstable Weimar Republic in the 1920s, which is entering industrial modernity. After the collapse of the monarchy, the bourgeois classes claim supremacy. And the amateur film also proves to be a medium for presenting the new bourgeois self-confidence: the young couple, who appears transitionless to the Zeppelin and turns hesitantly smiling into the camera on the balcony railing, seems to want to embody something of the bourgeois sense of self, that in the amateur film can be seen in a new way. For the bourgeoisie since the eighteenth century, free time has been a free space for those who live the difficult balance that asserts a universal claim to bourgeois lifestyle in the ideal of 'education'. To film oneself - this was also a new way to produce an individual 'picture' of oneself and to be in leisure time the 'special' that this lifestyle demanded at the same time.
So it seems almost consistent when the next, half-total shot of the film in the outer space in front of the house jumps to move this picture further into the individual: Two men - one of them is easy to recognize as the one from the balcony - clean their Cars, in a sense, represent themselves as car owners, while the camera slides with a pan over the side-by-side cars, which are allowed on the old Baden license plate. Formerly a luxury object of the upper classes, the car should now increasingly mobilize the masses: It becomes a status symbol, in which the sense of progress of the new bourgeois buyer strata manifests itself.
The car care in front of the house turns into a small cinematic stage. The rear side window wienernd the one, slowly behind the front paneling the other, the two men take care of the surfaces of the consumer object automobile: especially its new connection with the world of women - consistently picked up in the car advertising - it in the 1920s Become the subject of luxury consumption. Here, too, the claim to an individual world of feelings emerges, the downside of which is the mass production of a dawning consumer society, for which American Fordism, series production on the production line, is a model.Lieux ou monuments
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