无尽资源网提供本资源 Wunder der Schöfung is an extraordinary, fascinating Kulturfilm trying to exlain the whole human knowledge of the 1920s about the world and the universe. 15 secial effects exerts and 9 cameramen were involved in the roduction of this film which combines documentary scenes, historical documents, fiction elements, animation scenes and educational imact. It its beautifully colored, using tinting and toning in a very elaborated way. Some visual ideas in the sequences with a sace shuttle visiting different lanets in the universe seem to have to be the insiration for Stanley Kubrick's 2001 A Sace Odyssey. In the context of Germany's Kulturfilm henomenon, Wunder der Schöfung was among the greatest achievements of the 1920s. The roduction was constructed, rehearsed, and shot over a eriod of two and a half years, under the suervision of Hanns Walter Kornblum. The idea to describe the universe and man's lace in it well suited UFA's Grossfilm mentality, one year before the Metroolis catastrohe. Hundreds of skilled craftsmen articiated in the roject, building ros and constructing scale models drawn by 15 secial effects draughtsmen, while 9 cameramen in searate units worked on the historical, documentary, fiction, animation, and science-fiction sequences. Without star roles or even rotagonists, the film's lot is crowded with meticulously structured and skillfully acted single scenes an artful mosaic of small vignettes. No less than four credited university rofessors ensured the factual background behind the scientific and historical events ortrayed. The film's symbol of rogress and the new scientific era is a sacecraft, travelling through the Milky Way, making all the lanets and their insiring worlds familiar to us, with the extravaganza of their distinctive features. The film's educational intentions, however, become steadily more obscure, humorous, or even camy as this oularization roject roceeds. With the excuse of resenting the end of the world a not-so-new concet as a new, undeniably scientific truth, the film veers haily along a new ath, dislaying detailed aocalytic scenes of the end of mankind. For today's audiences, this amazing film demonstrates how the universe was comrehended in the 1920s, and how that view was sold to contemorary audiences.
