Guido Seeber

Guido Seeber (22 June 1879 in

In 1908 he became technical manager of the film company Deutsche Bioscop^[citation needed] and in 1909 directed his first film. His pioneering work as a cinematographer from this time on laid the foundations which other cameramen of German silent film such as Karl Freund, Fritz Arno Wagner and Carl Hoffmann were able to build.

In addition to his technical talents with the camera (he developed several

Seeber created several animated works, including an advertisement entitle Kipho or Du musst zur Kipho (You Must Go to Kino-Photo) for a film and photography exhibition in Berlin in 1925.[1]

Seeber continued to work into the sound era, but his work from this period is less significant. He had suffered a

• The Traitress (1911)
• The Wandering Image (1920)
• Impostor (1921)
• Fridericus Rex (1922)
• Old Heidelberg (1923)
• William Tell (1923)
• Adam and Eve (1923)
• The Hobgoblin (1924)
• Countess Donelli (1924)
• Garragan (1924)
• Wood Love (1925)
• In the Valleys of the Southern Rhine (1925)
• Living Buddhas (1925)
• Secrets of a Soul (1926)
• A Girl of the People (1927)
• Rhenish Girls and Rhenish Wine (1927)
• Weekend Magic (1927)
• Circle of Lovers (1927)
• Robert and Bertram (1928)
• Darling of the Dragoons (1928)
• Give Me Life (1928)
• The Insurmountable (1928)
• Youth of the Big City (1929)
• Gentlemen Among Themselves (1929)
• The Black Domino (1929)
• Tempo! Tempo! (1929)
• Queen of Fashion (1929)
• Hungarian Nights (1929)
• Foolish Happiness (1929)
• Danube Waltz (1930)
• Storm in a Water Glass (1931)
• The Woman They Talk About (1931)
• My Heart Longs for Love (1931)
• The Beggar Student (1931)
• Peace of Mind (1931)
• Three from the Unemployment Office (1932)
• Distorting at the Resort (1932)
• Two Good Comrades (1933)
• A Woman With Power of Attorney
  (1934)
• Don't Lose Heart, Suzanne! (1935)

References

Sources

• Herbst, Helmut. Drei Bildbeschreibungen und eine Liste. Der Filmpionier Guido Seeber. pp. 15–41 in C. Müller und H. Segeberg (ed.) Die Modellierung des Kinofilms. Munich, 1998.
• Stiftung Deutsche Kinemathek (publ.) Das wandernde Bild. Der Filmpionier Guido Seeber. Berlin, 1979.
• Castan, Joachim. Max Skladanowsky oder der Beginn einer deutschen Filmgeschichte., Stuttgart, 1995.
  ISBN 3-9803451-3-0
  . Highly interesting the relationship between Skladanowsky and Seeber.

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