Ghosts Before Breakfast (1928)
- Original title
- Vormittagsspuk
- Directed by
- Hans Richter
- Genre
- silent film
- Country
- Weimar Republic
- Runtime
- 6 min
- Rating
- 6.8 of 10 from 63 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
This is a Dadaist animated short from the 1920s. It shows random objects and everyday items moving on their own with stop motion. There is no clear story, just a series of strange and playful images.
experimentalabsurdplayfulwhimsicalsurrealfreneticnonsensicalavant-garde
What happens
Ghosts Before Breakfast (German: Vormittagsspuk) is a 1928 German dadaist animated short film directed by Hans Richter. It utilizes stop motion for some of its effects and live action for others. The film does not present a coherent narrative, and includes a number of seemingly arbitrary images. The original accompanying score composed by Paul Hindemith for a player piano is regarded as lost. New audio tracks have been created by artists such as The Real Tuesday Weld. British composer Ian Gardiner, who has written many scores for cinema and television, created a score for the film in 2006 (premiered by the Liverpool group Ensemble 10/10, directed by Clark Rundell). The UK ensemble Counterpoise (violin, trumpet, saxophone, piano) premiered American composer Jean Hasse's score in 2008, touring the UK - it can be seen on YouTube. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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The Merry Farmer (1927)- More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.