La flûte merveilleuse
Weitere Titel: Die wunderbare Flöte (D, Ö)/ The Magic Flute (UK)/ Max makes music (USA) - Regie: (Max Linder) - Szenario: Max Linder - Länge: 155m - s/w, teilweise viragiert - Interpret: Max Linder - Produktion: Pathé Frères - Katalog-Nr.: 3840/Okt.10 - Auff.: 1. Oktober 1910 (Graz/ Bioskop Theater Annenhof) — Weitere Auff.: 4.11.10 (Paris/ Omnia Pathé)
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Max hat eine wunderbare Flöte erstanden, mit der er alle die ihn hören, nach seinem Willen tanzen lassen kann. Nacheinander nach der Melodie eines Walzers, eines Cake-Walk und Matchiche läßt Max ein exerzierendes Batallion tanzen, eine Hochzeitsgesellschaft, einen braven Bürger das Opfer von Apachen, der sich erholt und zu tanzen anfängt trotz des Messers in seinem Leib. Max wird wegen nächtlicher Ruhestörung zur Wache mitgenommen und läßt dort die Schutzleute Matchiche tanzen. Dann kehrt er heim und vorm Einschlafen läßt er die Möbel, die Familienbilder, den Hund des Hauses tanzen und der Meister der Flöte selbst schließt sich dem Schlußgalopp an. (Der deutsche Lichtbildtheater-Besitzer, 13.10.1910)
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An old idea is given a new appearance in this farce by the graceful Max Linder's characteristic work. He buys a magic flute, the music from which has the power of causing people to dance. Max tries its influence on the drilling soldiers, the fighting drunkards, the young ladies posing for their pictures, the man who has just been murdered, and various other beings, including a little dog. The finishing scene, in which he plays the flute in bed and causes the furniture and pictures to dance into a general mix-up is not so happy. One could almost see the wires by which the objects were moved. (The New York Dramatic Mirror, 8.3.1911)
• Eine Kopie des Films wird verwahrt in: Cineteca del Friuli (Gemona)
Weitere Filmbeschreibungen/Kritiken:
Max buys a flute, which is guaranteed to make all who hear its music dance until further orders, and he tries its powers upon a squad of recruits. The results are perfect, and Max experiments in a cake-walk within the hearing of a wedding group posing for a deaf photographer. When the latter turns, he is dismayed at the demoralisation of his artistically posed group. Max then happens upon a man who has been stabbed by hooligans. Over his dead body Max blows his flute, the dead man arises, and is soon dancing. The noise attracts the police, who arrest Max. He escapes and returns home where a little dog is sitting on the step. The flute is again brought into action, and doggie performs a grave little dance. At length Max retires to rest, and in his room plays another tune which causes the portraits, chairs, tables, bed, and even Max himself, to dance. (The Bioscope, Sept. 22nd 1910)
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A flute which has telling effect on people when they hear it played, causes mild laughter. The idea is well worked up. (Variety, March 4th 1911)