Spooky! (1925)
The film "Spuk!" is about the miracle in the neighbor's garden, where the plants grow and bloom so well. The reason for this is the use of a fertilizer, the so-called Thomas flour from steel production. How a love story develops from this can be seen in the silent film with Camilla Horn.
The 1925 silent film "Spuk!" stars Camilla Horn (1903-1996). Just one year later, the actress became known to a wider audience as Gretchen in the world-famous film adaptation of Goethe's "Faust" directed by Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau. Camilla Horn then received an invitation to Hollywood, where she was the first German to become an internationally celebrated film star.
Silent films were not really silent. When shown in the cinema, a pianist usually accompanied the moving image with piano music, or cinema owners hired a whole orchestra. This drowned out the background noise of the film projector that was playing the film. At first, people used any music, but later they composed their own music, tailored to the film in question. As was customary in the past, this film-historical treasure is accompanied live during the screening by a pianist, an excellent improviser and silent film pianist.
Astrid Dörnemann, thyssenkrupp Corporate Archives
Filmographic information:
Client: Association of Thomas Flour Producers, Berlin
Year of production: 1925
Format: 16 mm
Color: black and white
Language: Mute
Running time: 24 min.
Director: Eberhard Fangauf-Bush
Photographs: Fritz Iffland
Production management and construction: Arthur Hoffmann
Cast: Camilla Horn (Louise), Wally Wilke-Menges (Mrs. Simpel), Walter Relly (Fritz Kluge), Hans Ahrens (Mr. Kluge)
Contact
thyssenkrupp Corporate Archives
Astrid Dörnemann MA
Friedrich-Ebert-Strasse 12
47119 Duisburg
corporate-archives@thyssenkrupp.com
Still of leading actress Camilla Horn.
Source: thyssenkrupp Corporate Archives, Duisburg
Statue of a sack of Thomas meal from the August Thyssen-Hütte, trade union.
Source: thyssenkrupp Corporate Archives, Duisburg
Still from the movie.
Source: thyssenkrupp Corporate Archives, Duisburg