In the organizer's words:

"Lights! Cars! People! Everything intersected!" Inspired by a visual experience of the big city made "at dusk" by the author Carl Mayer, the most famous "cross-section film" of New Objectivity shows documentary images of Berlin, condensed in a rhythmic montage into a composition of movement and light. Between dawn and midnight, the urban screen spectacle registers all the nuances between all-encompassing white, when the steam from locomotives fills the picture, and the complete black of a tunnel passage. Especially in the play of neon signs, in the fireworks and "sea of flames" of the city night, the avant-garde utopia of an "absolute film" - an abstract painting with light - is fulfilled in the cinematic "symphony". The photographic director Karl Freund, who used highly sensitive film material that could also be shot at night, was largely responsible for this: "A great achievement! Admittedly only possible thanks to the invention of hypersensitization of the negative by [the cameramen] Kuntze [and] Safra, whose merits are not sufficiently emphasized in the [...] credits." (Der Kinematograph, 24.9.1927) Schöning, Jörg

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