Table of Contents

Introduction The Research Tradition The Film Historical Tradition Approach The Structure of This Book 1906-1909 Ole Olsen Biograf-Theatret Olsen's First Films The International Film Industry Open and Closed Markets From Entrepreneur to Modern Industrial Enterprise The Printing Laboratory The Technical Quality of the Films Colourization of the Films Actualities The First Fiction Films The Studio in Valby The Artistic Quality The Polar Bear on the Globe Nordisk's Protection of its Films Pathe Freres and Gaumont Nordisk's Distribution Network Agents and Distributors A Tiny Little Mosquito against a Big, Big Elephant The Congress of Fools 1910-1914 Reorganization of the Company Den hvide Slavehandel The Dangerous Age The Founding of the Limited Company The Bank Syndicate "Long and Artistic Films are our Future Motto" Opposition to the Long Films Exclusive System, Monopolfilm and Distribution The Script Department Censorship and Self-Regulation Guidelines for Scriptwriters The Censorship Memoranda Russian Endings Nordisk's Positioning of its Films Actors and Stars Autorenfilm The Organization of the Film Factory Bureaucratization Hollywood in Copenhagen Capital Gains Olsen's Sale and Stockjobbing Expansion in the USA 1914-1917 The Outbreak of World War I Russische Schreckensregimente an der Ostgrenze "Nordisk Films Kompagni Will Now Become the Biggest in the World" Fotorama Filmsbureau A/S and Swedish companies Nordisk's Expansion Policy in Germany Expansion in Russia "They Thought We Were German" Ban on Luxury Goods in Germany The Second Expansion of the Share Capital Aubert and the Black List The European Shareholding Company The Black Lists The July Letter 1918-1924 After the War Artistic Decline? New Trade Conditions The Estate after the War The European and the American Film Industry The New Production Method Universum Film Aktiengesellschaft Colosseum in Flensborg DAFCO Famous Players A New, Big Combination The Liquidation of DAFCO and the UFA Capital Metropolteatret and Fotorama The Depreciation of the Share Capital The Shareholders' Group Recapitulation Sources and Bibliography

About the Author

Isak Thorsen is Research Assistant in the Section of Film and Media Studies at the University of Copenhagen and holds a PhD in Film Studies. He contributed to the anthology "100 Years of Nordisk Film" (DFI 2006) and has written for the journals Film History, Kosmorama, 16:9, Mifune and Sentura. He is editor and author of the Danish entries in the Historical Dictionary of Scandinavian Cinema (Scarecrow 2012).

Reviews

By working with the actual sources, the volume is rich in detail . . . the book is an entertaining story about one of the big players in early film history.
*Film History*

Thorsen presents us with a thoroughly engaging book about a littlediscussed area of filmmaking in the silent era, managing to make the story accessible even for those readers with little or no knowledge of business or finance. What is more, he does so in a way that makes it of interest not only to scholars interested in the relatively niche area of the business of filmmaking, but those researching the silent era in general.
*Studies in European Cinema*