Commercial for ladies stockings
Creator(s)
- Rudolf Mayer (Producer)
- Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Digital History
- Österreichisches Filmmuseum
Biographical History
Rudolf Mayer (1903-1962) was born in Vienna as a son of Gustav Mayer, a pioneer of Austrian film newsreels. Rudolf's brother, Adolf “Adi” Mayer, who took over his father's business, renaming the company in 1938 to “Adi Mayer’s Filmbüro” (advertising and culture films). Adolf also worked as a cameraman for the “Deutsche Wochenschau”. The company remains family property and is today (2015) Austria’s biggest advertising film producer. [According to adimayerfilm.at ].
Scope and Content
Title card: “Perlen der Ostmark | Ein Rudolf Mayer Film.” Clouds over mountain tops. Snowy mountains. People skiing. A village in the valley of a tall mountain. A boy rock-climbs. Village in the valley. Panoramic shot of a village spanning across a river. A procession of people in fancy dress. People sailing sailboats. Men drill into rocks. A crane moved the rocks. Smoke billows out of a factory. Industrial shots. A boat goes down the river between mountains. Buildings in the village in the valley. Grapes. Various shots of the Stephansplatz in Vienna, Austria. The Belvedere Palace. The Freyung in Vienna. Graphic College in Vienna. Shots of various machinery in a factory. Women operate sewing machines. Women take stockings off mannequin legs. A woman examines the stockings. The stockings are packaged. Title card: “Amazone Strümpfe sind Fachmannsarbeit.” Title card: “Perlen der Ostmark | Ein Rudolf Mayer Film.” Clouds over mountain tops. Snowy mountains. People skiing. A village in the valley of a tall mountain. A boy rock-climbs. Village in the valley. Panoramic shot of a village spanning across a river. A procession of people in fancy dress. People sailing sailboats. Men drill into rocks. A crane moved the rocks. Smoke billows out of a factory. Industrial shots. A boat goes down the river between mountains. Buildings in the village in the valley. Grapes. Various shots of the Stephansplatz in Vienna, Austria. The Belvedere Palace. The Freyung in Vienna. Graphic College in Vienna. Shots of various machinery in a factory. Women operate sewing machines. Women take stockings off mannequin legs. A woman examines the stockings. The stockings are packaged. Title card: “Amazone Strümpfe sind Fachmannsarbeit.”
Note(s)
This film is featured in the Ephemeral Films Project: National Socialism in Austria. Watch the historic film through an innovative film player showing contemporary images, geographical mapping, and shot-level analysis at efilms.ushmm.org.
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Subjects
- FACTORIES
- FARMERS/FARMING
- INDUSTRY
- WOMEN
- SPORTS/GAMES
- BOATS
- ADVERTISEMENTS
- SHOPS
- SNOW
- CLOTHES
- AUSTRIA
Places
- Vienna, Austria
- , Austria
Genre
- Film